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Carroll Augustine Devol (April 17, 1859 - June 3, 1930) was a major general in the United States Army who took his own life in 1930.
Biography
He was born on April 17, 1859 in Waterford, Ohio to Hiram Fosdick Devol (1831-1912) and Adelaide Amanda Dyar (1837-1860). He married Dora Scott Devol (1861-1950). Their daughter, Mary Devol, married George H. Brett on 1 March 1916.
He was a second lieutenant for the 25th Infantry Regiment on September 1, 1879; first lieutenant 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 University of Wisconsin.
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 Presidio of San_Francisco during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and was in charge of the distribution of military and civil supplies to refugees from the disaster.
He took his own life with a gunshot through his heart on June 3, 1930 at his home in Redwood City, California.