The Hood Family of Webster County, Mississippi - Person Sheet
The Hood Family of Webster County, Mississippi - Person Sheet
NameCARROLL, Anna Ella 
Birth Date1815
Birth PlacePocomoke City, Worcester Connty, Maryland
Death Date1893 Age: 78
Death PlaceWashington, District of Columbia
FatherCARROLL, Gov. Thomas King (1793-1873)
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Anna Ella Carroll was an American politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist.
She was born in to a very wealthy and prominent family in her state and city: her great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signers and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and later in the new Congress of the United States, her father was the Governor of Maryland from 1830–1831, and her mother was the daughter of a Baltimore physician.
She played a significant role as an adviser to the Lincoln presidential cabinet during the American Civil War (1861-1865). She also wrote many pamphlets criticizing slavery.
She died on February 19, 1894, at the age of 79.
She was born in to a very wealthy and prominent family in her state and city: her great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signers and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and later in the new Congress of the United States, her father was the Governor of Maryland from 1830–1831, and her mother was the daughter of a Baltimore physician.
She played a significant role as an adviser to the Lincoln presidential cabinet during the American Civil War (1861-1865). She also wrote many pamphlets criticizing slavery.
She died on February 19, 1894, at the age of 79.