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Carroll H. Little graduated from Gaston College, North Carolina in 1889. Beginning in his last year of high school, Little worked as an editor for his father’s newspaper in Dallas, North Carolina, working there until 1891. Little also taught at numerous schools in North Carolina during this period.

Little then began his post-secondary educational career at Roanoke College in Virginia, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1893. From 1897 to 1898, he went on to get a Master of Arts degree in Classics at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. After receiving his Master of Arts, Little turned his attention to religious studies. He graduated from Mount Airy Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1901 and was ordained on June 3, 1901 by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania. His first parishes were in the Nova Scotia Synod where he served at New Germany, Nova Scotia from 1901 to 1909 and in the Mahone Parish from 1909 to 1911. He also served as secretary (1904-1909) and president (1911-1914) of the Nova Scotia Synod, as well as the editor for the Nova Scotia Lutheran from 1907 to 1911. While in the province, he also served as the housefather of Bethany Orphans’ Home in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia from 1911 to 1914.

In 1914, Little received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. In the same year he left Nova Scotia to accept a call in the St. Lawrence Parish in Morrisburg, Ontario. Three years later, in 1917, Little began his teaching career at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada (now Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, an affiliate of Wilfrid Laurier University) located in Waterloo, Ontario, where he would stay for the remainder of his career. While Little began his time at the seminary as a professor, he soon took on many other roles. He served as acting President from 1918 to 1920, 1929 to 1931, and again from 1942 to 1944; Bursar from 1918 to 1933, and Dean from 1920 to 1927. He remained at the seminary until his retirement in 1947.

During his time at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Little also received his Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology in 1924, and a Doctor of Sacred Theology in 1928, all from Chicago Lutheran Seminary.