Carroll Augustine Devol (April 17, 1859 - June 3, 1930) was a major general in the

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who killed himself in 1930.

Biography

He was born on April 17, 1859, in

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, to Hiram Fosdick Devol (1831–1912) and Adelaide Amanda Dyar (1837–1860). He married Isadora Scott Devol (1861–1950). Their daughter, Mary Adelaide Devol, married George H. Brett on 1 March 1916. He was a second lieutenant for the 25th Infantry Regiment on September 1, 1879;

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on October 19, 1886; regimental quartermaster April 1, 1887, to April 19, 1891. In 1895 he was a professor of Military Science and Tactics at the

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. He was captain assistant quartermaster August 21, 1896; major quartermaster volunteers October 17, 1898; lieutenant colonel quartermaster assigned February 6, 1899, to March 2, 1899; honorable discharged from volunteers May 1, 1901; major quartermaster May 5, 1902. Chief quartermaster in 1903. He was quartermaster at the

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during the

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and was in charge of the distribution of military and civil supplies to refugees from the disaster. He killed himself with a gunshot through his heart on June 3, 1930, at his home in

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, after learning of his terminal diagnosis from stomach cancer.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Devol, Carroll Augustine 1859 births 1930 deaths Suicides by firearm in California United States Army generals People from Waterford, Ohio People from Redwood City, California Military personnel from Ohio 19th-century United States Army personnel 20th-century United States Army personnel University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty