Escambia County FlArchives Biographies.....Carroll, Frank X. August 7, 1865 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III, page 51, 1923.

     CARROLL, Hon. FRANK X.  Instances are numerous in the history of Florida 
of men who have worked their own way to positions of prominence from small 
beginnings, their careers furnishing interesting chapters in the story of the 
state’s development.  Various have been the avenues through which they have won 
their way upward.  Some have found business activities the proper path, others, 
the professions, and still others have attained the goal sought through the 
medium of public service and political life.  In the last-named class stands 
Hon. FRANK X. CARROLL, representative from Escambia County in the Florida 
Legislature, a self-made man in all that the term implies, and whose present 
position has been fairly won in the face of intense opposition.
     Mr. CARROLL was born August 7, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama, one of the two 
children, of whom he is the only survivor, of HENRY CARROLL.  HENRY CARROLL was 
born in Ireland, whence he immigrated to the United States as a young man, 
settling first at Baltimore, Maryland, and then, in 1853, going to Mobile, 
Alabama.  He followed the vocation of navigator until enlisting in the 
Confederate Army during the war between the states, when he served as a member 
of the Twenty-third Regiment, Alabama Volunteers Infantry.  He was killed while 
in the service in 1864.
     FRANK X. CARROLL attended the Barton Academy and Richardson Institute at 
Mobile, Alabama and at the age of eighteen years adopted the trade of 
blacksmith, a vocation which he followed for some thirty years, both at Mobile 
and Pensacola.  In 1913 he was appointed license inspector and inspector of 
weights and measures for the City of Pensacola.  At this time he gave up 
blacksmithing to turn his attention to civic matters.  In 1920 he became the 
candidate of his party for the office of representative from Escambia County in 
the Florida State Legislature, to which he was duly elected, and in which he 
made a splendid record.  In June, 1922, he was reelected to serve the people 
for the second term.  Mr. CARROLL has been one of the most active workers in 
the ranks of the democratic party for many years, and wields a strong influence 
therein.  He holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce, is a director in the 
Carnival Association and other bodies, and is a member of the Woodmen of the 
World, in which he has numerous friends, as he has also in business and 
political circles.
     When twenty years of age, in 1883, Mr. CARROLL was united in marriage at 
Pensacola with Miss SARAH DWYER, of Mobile, Alabama, whose parents were natives 
of Dublin, Ireland.  Mrs. CARROLL passed away November 1, 1918.  To this union 
there were born eleven children, of whom four daughters and two sons are 
living:  JOHN, HELENA, RUTH, MARY, FRANK, and VERA.  All of the children have 
had liberal educational advantages.


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