Early Life
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Col. Charles Carroll (b.1801) and Mary Diggs Lee (b.1800). Col. Charles Carroll was the grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
At the age of ten, in 1840, he was sent to Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg. He remained there for two years. After leaving he attended Georgetown University, and then St. Mary's College, in Baltimore, for three years.. He then decided to enter the legal profession, and attended Harvard Law School for two terms.
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