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The Rev. Canon
Robert Girard Carroon, Ph.D.
Robert Girard Carroon, the son of Matthew Arnold Carroon and
Agnes Girardeau Squire, is a native of Kansas City,
Missouri. The Rev. Dr. Carroon completed his
Bachelor of Arts degree at
Indiana State University.
He completed his Master of Divinity at the
Nashotah House Theological
Seminary and, in addition to his
theological studies, obtained a Master of Arts from
the
University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Carroon's Ph.D. (D.Litt.) was completed at
England's
Sussex University.
The Rev. Dr. Carroon has had an illustrious career in
the American Episcopal Church, having served for many
years as the Honorary Canon of
Christ Church Cathedral
in Hartford, Connecticut
and Archivist and Historiographer of the Diocese of Connecticut. He is
the current Secretary of the Board of Archives of the Episcopal
Church and the
Senior
Priest Associate at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford.
Father
Carroon now serves the Episcopal Church in America as
the Director of Scholarship Programs, with the
Society for the Increase of the
Ministry.
Society Memberships
*
Society
of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut
(Secretary)
* General Society of Colonial Wars (Chaplain General)
* National Gavel Society
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States (former National
Commander-In-Chief)
* National Huguenot Society (President of the
Connecticut Society)
* Aztec Club of 1847 (Chaplain)
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters
of the Kings of Britain
* Military Order of the Stars and Bars (former
Chaplain General)
* Order of the Blue and Gray (Chaplain)
* National Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution (former
Genealogist General)
* Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
(former Chaplain General)
* General Society Sons of the Revolution
(Chaplain of the Connecticut
Society)
* Saint Andrew's Society of Connecticut
* National Society Sons of Colonial New England
(Chaplain General)
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants
* Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
* Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots
American Revolution
* General Society of the War of 1812 (Chaplain of the
Connecticut Society)
* Huguenot Society of America
* Huguenot Society of South Carolina
*
Society of the
Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
(former
Chaplain General)
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (former
National Chaplain)
* Order of Descendants of Privates and Privateers
* Sons of Sherman's March to the Sea
* Society of the Descendants of the Founders of
Hartford (Chaplain)
* Thomas Rogers Society
* Sons of Veteran's Reserve
Authorships
Carroon, Rev. Robert Girard, Ph.D.,
Broadswords and Bayonets : The
Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Captain
Thomas
Stirling of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, Royal Highland
Regiment
(The Black Watch) to Occupy Fort Chartres in the Illinois
Country,
August 1765 to January 1766 Illinois: Illinois
Society of Colonial Wars,
1984
Carroon, Rev. Robert Girard, Ph.D., A New Heart
a New Spirit: Sermons
and Addresses Commemorating Bicentennial of the Consecration
of
Samual Seabury First Bishop of the American Episcopal Church
New
York: Morehouse Publishing, 1988
Carroon, Rev. Robert Girard, Ph.D., From
Freeman's Ford to Bentonville:
The 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
Pennsylvania: Burd
Street Press, 1998
Carroon, Rev. Robert Girard, Ph.D., Union Blue:
The Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States Pennsylvania:
Burd Street Press,
2001
Chivalric Orders
*
The Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
(Serving Brother)
* Imperial Order of Saint Michael the Archangel
(Chevalier, bestowed by HIH
Grand Duke Vladamir of Russia)
Listed In
Clerical Directory of the Episcopal Church
Filby's Who's Who in Genealogy and Heraldry
Other Notes
The Rev.
Dr. Carroon is a member of the
Union League of Philadelphia.
He was a former hockey player (goaltender) with
the Indianapolis Chiefs, with whom he won the
International Hockey League Turner Cup Championship
in 1958. He also played with the Milwaukee
Falcons and on the Hartford Whaler Alumni Team of
the National Hockey League. He has served as
President of the Hartford Whalers and Hartford Wolf
Pack (New York Rangers) Booster Club and serves on
the Advisory Board of the Hartford Wolf Pack.
He is a Past President of the Connecticut Society of
Genealogists, a member of the Association for the Preservation of
Civil War Sites, and the Honorable
Order of Kentucky Colonels. He is a life member
of the Saint Andrew's Society of Milwaukee, and a
member of the
French-Canadian Genealogical Society; the Alliance Francaise;
the Bunker Hill Monument Association; the Grant Tomb
Monument Association. Father Carroon also
serves as Chief Archivist for the Clan Donald USA.
In addition to Father Carroon's other roles in the
Episcopal Church, he is a member of the Guild of All
Souls, the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament,
and the Society of King Charles the Martyr. In
addition, he serves as
Chaplain of the 82nd Airborne Association of
Connecticut. Father Carroon is a member of Alpha Delta
Chapter, Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity; and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta History
Fraternity.
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