Background
Carroll, Robert Sproul was born on February 18, 1869 in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonathan Edward and Margaret Jane (Sproul) Carroll.
Carroll, Robert Sproul was born on February 18, 1869 in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonathan Edward and Margaret Jane (Sproul) Carroll.
Student Denison University, Granville, O., 1885-1886. Doctor of Medicine Marion Sims College of Medicine (Saint Saint Louis University ) 1893. Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College (University of Chicago), 1897.
Practiced medicine at Calvert, Texas, 1892-1902. Associate superintendent Marysville (Ohio) Sanatorium, 1902-1904. Established Doctor Carroll’s Sanitarium, Incorporated., Asheville, North Carolina, 1904, title changed 1912 to Highland Hospital, Incorporated.
(hospital donated to psychiatric department Duke University, 1939.
Retired as president and medical director, 1946). Lecturer in psychiatry, School Medical, Duke U.
Fellow American Psychiatric Association, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Association for Study of Internal Secretions, Southern Society Philosophy, International, Association Philosophy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Eugenics Society American Ethnological Society, Eugenical Research Association National Economics League, American Museum Natural History, Association for Research in Human Heredity, New York Academy Sciences.
Married second, Grace Stewart Potter (pianist), February 28, 1918. Children (1st marriage): Mistress Heloise Handcock, Donald Frederic (major in the United States Army).