DR. CARROLL M. RAWLINGS
History of Arizona, 1896

During the early part of the War of the Rebellion, on the 15th 
of February, 1862, Carroll Monroe Rawlings was born in Washington, 
D.C.  His early childhood was passed at the old suburban homestead.  
When but eight years old he was left fatherless and his mother, 
with her five little ones, left the large estate to live in the 
city of Washington. Here his career in the public schools began 
and he was conceded by his teachers to be one of the hardest boys 
to manage in his classes.  When he had reached the age of eleven 
years his mother died, leaving him and the other children in the 
care of their uncle and guardian, H.J. Bright.  After struggling 
patiently to control him, his uncle, after many anxious consultations 
with Mrs. Bright, decided that the public schools were not strong 
enough to hold the boy and it was determined to send him to a 
school of strict military discipline.  Bethel Military Academy 
of Fauquier County, Virginia was selected and here he was placed 
at the age of twelve years, remaining five years. Here, under the 
judicious training of Major A.G. Smith, his superabundant energy 
and vivacity were directed in channels profitable to himself in 
after life and here the foundation of his 
business career was formed.  When seventeen years old he took 
a private course of study for two years and when nineteen under 
the preceptorship of Dr. Francis A. Ashford, the leading surgeon 
of Washington, he began the study of medicine.  For two years he 
was visiting student at the Children's Hospital, and also the 
Emergency Hospital.  during the third year of his medical course 
he was resident student at the Washington Asylum Hospital and 
after receiving his diploma was appointed physician at the Round 
Valley Indian Agency in Northern California.  After residing 
there a year and finding no school of medicine, he traveled 
through Southern California and northern Mexico and thence to 
Washington to further post himself in his profession.  After 
reaching home he was appointed resident physician at the 
Washington Asylum Hospital, in conjunction with which position 
he was Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Georgetown 
until 1888, when he married. 

A great longing for the West seized him, and he decided to 
return to the Pacific coast, and selecting Spokane Falls, 
Washington, as a place likely to afford an opportunity for a 
physician, he located there and was soon engaged in a profitable 
practice.  While there he was one of the six staff officers of 
the Hospital of the Sacred Heart, a large Catholic institution; 
secretary o the United States Board of Pension Examiners, city 
health officer of Spokane and surgeon to the construction 
department of the Spokane and Northern and the Lake Shore and 
Seattle Railroads.  While there he organized the Medical 
Society of Spokane. His arduous duties, combined with a severe 
attack of la grippe, were too much for the doctor and during 
the spring of 1890 his health became much impaired and 
consumption developed.  After trying a summer in British 
Columbia with no permanent benefit he decided to seek a more 
congenial clime, removing south to Nature's sanitarium, the 
Valley of the Salt River.  He located at Phoenix, Arizona. 
Here after a few months he was sufficiently restored to engage 
in the real estate business, and the firm of Rawlings and 
Squires was inaugurated. It was owing to the energy and 
untiring efforts of this firm that the Orchard Grove 
Improvement Company, capital stock of $25,000 was organized, 
being the first company of its kind in Phoenix.  Doctor 
Rawlings' restoration to health was but temporary and his 
death occurred December 1, 1894.  His remains are interred 
at Phoenix. 

He was married in Washington City in 1888 to Miss Mary G. 
Stoutenburg, a native of the Empire State, born in Duchess 
County on the Hudson.  To this union was born three children, 
Virginia, Walter S. and Carroll E.

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