Background
Devol, Carroll Augustine was born on April 17, 1859 in Waterford, Ohio, United States. Son of Hiram Fosdick and Adelaide (Dyar) Devol.
Devol, Carroll Augustine was born on April 17, 1859 in Waterford, Ohio, United States. Son of Hiram Fosdick and Adelaide (Dyar) Devol.
Civil Engineer, Pennsylvania Military College, 1878, Doctor of Science, 1914.
Second lieutenant 25th Infantry, September 1, 1879. First lieutenant, October 19, 1886. Captain a.q.m., August 21, 1896.
Major quartermaster United States Volumes, October 17, 1898.
Lieutenant colonel, February 6, 1899. Honorary discharge from volunteer service, May 1, 1901.
Major quartermaster, May 5, 1902. Lieutenant colonel, October 31, 1909.
Colonel a.q.m. general, September 22, 1911.
Brigadier general quartermaster corps, February 16, 1913.
Served with the line of the army in Texas, South Dakot, Minnesota, Montana, Yellowstone Park and Wyoming, with University of Wisconsin, 1896.
Married Dora Dean Scott, February 17, 1887. Children: Lucile Scott (Mistress A. G. Bates), Mary Adelaide (Mistress George H. Brett).
