Carroll,  Daniel  L.,  D.  D.,  wxs  boru  iu  Fayette
county,  Pa.,  May  10th,  1797.  .\fter  surmounting
great  difficulties  iu  the  way  of  getting  an  education,
he  gradujited  at  Jefferson  College  in  1823,  being
twenty-six  years  old.  He  then  took  the  three  years'
course  in  Princeton  Seminary,  and  six  months  addi-
tional. He  was  settled  over  a  Congregational  Church
in  Litchfield,  Conn. ,  October,  1827.  March  4th,  1829,
•he  w;is  inst;dled  over  the  Fir.st  Presbyterian  Church,
in  Brooklyn,  L.  I.,  but  in  1835  resigned,  on  account  of
throat-ail,  and  accepted  the  Presidency  of  llampden-
Siduey  College,  Virginia.  In  1838,  on  account  of
theological  difficulties,  he  resigned,  and  accepted  a
call  to  the  First  Church  of  the  Northern  Liberties,
Philadelphia,  where  he  remained  until  1844,  when
ill-health  comi)elled  him  to  relinquish  the  charge.
After  a  brief  tour  of  service  for  the  Colonization
Society,  hedied,  in  Philadelphia,  November  23d,  1851,
in  the  fifty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  As  a  preacher  Dr.
Carroll  was  very  popular,  and  preached  to  crowiled
hou.ses.  He  had  a  refined  taste,  lively  imagination
and  nervous  organization.  He  excelled  on  the  j)lat-
form.  He  published  two  volumes  of  sermons,  besides
occiisioual  discourses.
