Catharine Carroll Harper
(1778-1861)
BIRTH
December 18, 1778
PLACE
NAME
Catharine Carroll
DEATH
February 2, 1861
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Charles Carroll
(1737-1832)
MOTHER
Mary Darnall Carroll
(1749-1782)
SISTER
Polly Carroll Caton
(1770-1846)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Kitty
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Catharine “Kitty” Carroll Harper (1778–1861) was a daughter of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. She married lawyer and politician Robert Goodloe Harper, and their children included Charles Carroll Harper and Emily Louisa Harper. Correspondence preserved by the Maryland Center for History and Culture documents her family life across the early republic. She survived her husband by decades, maintaining the Carroll and Harper family connections.
EARLY LIFE
Catharine Carroll Harper was born on Dec 18, 1778. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catharine Carroll Harper is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Catharine Carroll Harper died on Feb 2, 1861. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Catharine Carroll Harper died on Feb 2, 1861. Catharine “Kitty” Carroll Harper was a daughter of Declaration signer Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Mary Darnall. She married lawyer and politician Robert Goodloe Harper, and their children included Charles Carroll Harper and Emily Louisa Harper. Correspondence preserved by the Maryland Center for History and Culture documents her family life across the early republic. She survived her husband by decades, maintaining the Carroll and Harper family connections. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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