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James McCarroll was born on August 3, 1814 at Lanesboro, County Longford, Ireland. Emigrating to Canada at the age of seventeen, he settled in or near Toronto and almost at once began writing for the newspapers and magazines.
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James McCarroll was born on August 3, 1814 at Lanesboro, County Longford, Ireland. Emigrating to Canada at the age of seventeen, he settled in or near Toronto and almost at once began writing for the newspapers and magazines.
By 1845 McCarroll had become editor and proprietor of the Peterborough Chronicle, and an active force in local politics. For his skill in influencing public opinion, he was rewarded by sinecures in the Customs service at Coburg and Niagara in the years 1849 and 1851 respectively, and in 1854 by appointment to the surveyorship of the port of Toronto. In the meantime he had settled at Coburg where in addition to his other activities he taught music. He was an accomplished flutist and upon occasion went on tour. In the course of these travels he met most of the celebrities in the concert field.
Very little of his work appeared in book form, however, and of these writings the best are the Terry Finnegan Letters (1864), a series of humorous sketches done in the Irish dialect. Typical examples of his work in the drama are The Adventures of a Night (1865) and Almost a Tragedy, A Comedy (1874), both of them patterned upon the well-made play of the Scribe-Dumas school. At the same time, McCarroll was writing a great deal of verse in the whimsical, sentimental, highly imaged style of Clarence Mangan and Tom Moore. An occasional poem he sent to Oliver Wendell Holmes for criticism, but no collected edition appeared until 1889 (Madeline and Other Poems) and by that time McCarroll, after a few years of journalistic gypsying in northern New York state, had permanently settled in New York City. Here he became associated with The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge and The American Cyclopedia, and latterly he served on the editorial staff of Humanity and Health and contributed articles of a scientific character to Belford's Magazine.
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Linked with his talents for music and letters was an interest and ingenuity about mechanical things. At the time of his death he was negotiating the sale of patents upon his inventions: an improved elevator and a fire-proof wire gauze, but before the sales were closed he was seized with pneumonia and died after a short illness of nine days. He was very much a man of his own time. His associates knew him as a choice and merry spirit and a true Irish gentleman of the old school.
There is no information about his personal life. Perhaps, he was never married.