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CARRIGAN. CARRINGTON. I03 vancecl under his mastership into popular favor, and m less than three years became generally recognized as the leading insti- tution of its kind m the country. On resigning his position to devote his time exclusively to his profession, the school board placed on record its unquali- fied appreciation of his great ability and the invaluable work he had done. In 1883 he was appointed by Governor Butler a member of the state board of education, a position for which he was eminently fitted. Mr. Carrigan was always the champion of evening and industrial schools, compul- sory education of illiterate minors, and the teachers' tenure of office, with a pension from the State after a forty years' service. Mis influence on educational legislation was ever felt as a power in the advance of school reform. He believed the State to be the guardian of the popular education of her children, that they should receive their foundation training in schools super- vised by the representatives of the people. EDWARD C. CARRIGAN Mis best efforts were put forth for the free text-book act of 1884, the illiterate minor bill, the evening school law of 1888, and the general English high school act. He was appointed by Governor Butler a delegate to the inter-state education con- vention in Kentucky in 1883, and was chairman of the congressional committee of the American Institute of Instruction. He was a member of several of the lead- ing literary and musical clubs of Boston. Mr. Carrigan was unmarried. CARRINGTON, HENRY BEEBEE, son of Miles McCleave and Mary (Beebee) Carrington, was born at VVallingford, New Haven county, Conn., March 24, 1824, his mother still surviving, with unimpaired faculties, at the age of ninety-four. His grandfather, James Carrington, manu- facturer and inventor, was partner of Eli Whitney; and his great-grandfather, Cap- tain Jeremiah Carrington, entertained Washington at his house in 1789. His maternal grandfather and great-grandfather graduated at Yale, the latter in 1745, and took part in the old French and Indian war. The subject of this sketch graduated in 1845, giving up the West Point course because of lung troubles. He became professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute, Tarry- town, N. Y., in 1846; was for a time amanuensis for Washington Irving, and under his advice began "The Battles of the American Revolution," which was completed in 1S76, after personal sur- veys and exceptional access to European records. While at Yale law school he was also professor of natural science at Root's New Haven Institute. He practiced law at Col- umbus, Ohio, with Perry & Carrington, then for nine years with Dennison & Car- rington, became and still is a member of the United States supreme court bar, and was attorney for the leading Ohio railroads until 1861. He took active part in the organization of the Republican party in 1854, being chairman of the committee appointed by the state convention of July 13, 1854, to combine opposition to the extension of slavery. As the confidential friend of Salmon P. Chase, he stumped Ohio with him, in two gubernatorial campaigns, and as his adjutant-general, published a military work in 1858, and organized the militia, with direct view to the contingency of civil war. Within sixty hours after the first call, in 1861, twenty companies were started for Washington, and nine militia regiments were soon placed in West Vir- ginia. The thanks of the government were followed by his appointment as colonel of the 1 8th U. S. infantry, upon the recom- mendation of Generals Scott and Wool, and assignment to the organization of the regular regiments at the West. By special