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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rev. Robert Girard Carroon, Ph.D., is the son of Matthew Arnold Carroon and Agnes Girardeau Squire and 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.
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<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Gavel Society</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (former National Commander-In-Chief)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Huguenot Society (President of the Connecticut Society)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aztec Club of 1847 (Chaplain)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baronial Order of Magna Charta</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Order of the Crusades</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Order of the Stars and Bars (former Chaplain General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of the Blue and Gray (Chaplain)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Genealogist General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Chaplain General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Society Sons of the Revolution (Chaplain of the Connecticut Society)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saint Andrew's Society of Connecticut</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Chaplain General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Society of Mayflower Descendants</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Society of the War of 1812 (Chaplain General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Huguenot Society of America</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Huguenot Society of South Carolina</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge (former Chaplain General)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (former National Chaplain)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Order of Descendants of Privates and Privateers</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sons of Sherman's March to the Sea</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford (Chaplain)</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas Rogers Society</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sons of Veteran's Reserve</li>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rev. Dr. Carroon is a member of the<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.unionleague.org/intro.htm" aria-invalid="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Union League of Philadelphia</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 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.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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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