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HUGH ALLEN CARROLL
Vol. 3, p. 989
Book has photo

One of the prominent and progressive young men who are carrying the
burdens of educational leadership in Oklahoma in Hugh Allen Carroll,
now principal of the high school at Lawton, and with a record of
active school work for the past eleven years. Mr. Carroll is an
Oklahoma product his father having come to the territory in the early
'90s, when the son was a child, and is a graduate of an Oklahoma high
school and was student in the university before taking up his
practical career in the schoolroom.

Hugh Allen Carroll was born at the little rural Village of Mirabile,
Caldwell County, Missouri, May 10, 1886. He represents the historic
old family of Carrolls in Maryland, one member of which was the last
surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. From Maryland
this branch moved south to North Carolina, and next into Kentucky,
and from there into Northwest Missouri. Dr. A. H. Carroll, father of
the Lawton school principal, was born in Caldwell County, Missouri,
in 1860, and died at Hennessey, Oklahoma, May 25, 1899. He graduated
from the St. Louis Medical College, practiced at Mirabile for some
years, and in May, 1892, came to Hennessey, Oklahoma, where he was
one of the early settlers and was busied with the duties of his
profession until his death. He was a strong democrat, a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and a capable man in all his relations. He
married Miss Lucy HOUGHTON at Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri.
She was born near Kingston in 1863, and now lives at Taloga,
Oklahoma. Hugh A. Carroll was the first of their two children, and
his sister is Hetta Brown, wife of Vancil GREER, registrar of the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Hugh Allen Carroll began his public school education at Hennessey,
Oklahoma, graduated from the high school with the class of 1903, and
then spent two years of study in the University of Oklahoma at
Norman. In 1905 Mr. Carroll accepted the principalship of the schools
at Cleo, Oklahoma, remaining there two years, then became principal
of the high school at Mangum, and for two years held the chair of
English in the Southwest Normal School at Durant. With this extended
experience in school work he was called to Lawton in 1911 as
principal of the high school.

Mr. Carroll is an old-line democrat, a member of the Christian
church, and in 1914 was master of Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, and also belongs to Lawton Chapter No. 44, Royal
Arch Masons, and the Modern Woodmen of America at Cleo. He is a
member of the Greek Letter college fraternity, the Kappa Alpha.

On December 26, 1907, at Hennessey, he married Miss Nelle SMITH,
daughter of Sol Smith, now deceased, who was formerly a trader at
Burden, Kansas. Three children have been born to their marriage: Hugh
A., who died at Durant at the age of ten months; Nelle, who was born
August 6, 1910; and Carolyn, born August 6, 1913.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, December 18, 1998.