Captain Carroll was born in Ireland in 1840 and came to America with relatives as a child.
His early marine experience
commenced on the lakes, sailing out of Chicago from I857 to 1860. He then went to New York and started for China on the bark
Haw Wa, built for a Chinese man-of-war. He sailed the coastal trade in the Orient for a year.
In 1862, he arrived at San
Francisco on the clipper Swordfish. From there, he went to the Sandwich Islands and afterward to Cork in the ship Anglo-Saloon, commanded by Capt. John Caverley of San Francisco. Following that he sailed to Liverpool and Boston
and then for two years out of New York in the Trowbridge line for the West Indies.
In the latter part of, 1865 he shipped
from the Eastern metropolis as second mate of the ship Rattler, bound for San Francisco, and on arrival began running North on
the Montana.
He left the coastal steamer to sail to China as second
mate of the bark Swallow. On
his return, Captain Carroll entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company as second and first officer, remaining with them until 1869, when he returned to Holladay's employ.
In the fall of I87O he received his first command, the steamship Montana,
on which he had begun as a sailor four years before. From that time he remained continuously in charge of the Holladay
steamships and those of its successor until 1878, when he took command of the big sidewheeler Great Republic, running to Portland
as an Opposition Steamer. After the wreck of the Great Republic on Sand Island, at the mouth of the Columbia, Captain Carroll served as master on the
steamer Alexander Duncan for a short time, and from her went to the Idaho, Eureka, Mexico, and various other steamships
on the Alaska route.
Captain Carroll is one the few men
who have been fortunate in outside speculations while still remaining on the water. He had large holdings in Alaska, and when the proposition to purchase Alaska from the Government was made, Captain Carroll was one of the syndicate who stood in
readiness to pay for the territory.
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