Kenton County, KY  - Biographies:  Carlisle, McDonald, M. D., b. 1842
Friday, April 13, 2001

Submitted by: ConklinJ@missouri.edu  (Joyce Conklin)
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 From: "Conklin, Joyce S." <ConklinJ@missouri.edu>
 Please see the information below that I obtained from "The Combined
 Histories of Shelby and Moultrie County, Illinois"

 Biography of McDonald Carlisle shows that Albert M. Carlisle arrived and
 settled in Kenton Co. Kentucky in 1812.  The scanned book can be found on
 the web at:  http://www.edenmartin.com/counties/index.htm

 I am trying to find out who this gentleman's brothers and their children
 were.  I am having a hard time trying to find any information on where my
 grandfather came from and who his parents were.

 Joyce Conklin
 ConklinJ@missouri.edu

 McDONALD CARLISLE, M. D.
 THE subject of this sketch is one of the prominent physicians of Shelby
 county. He was born in Kenton county, Kentucky June 20th, 1842. His
 father, Albert M. Carlisle, was a native of Virginia. He removed to
 Kentucky about 1812, and remained upon t he place where he first settled,
 until his death in 1876. He married Hannah Reynolds. She died August
 25th, 1877. Doctor Carlisle is the fourth in a family of seven children,
 of Albert and Hannah Carlisle. Mr. Carlisle had been married prior to
 Isabel Fir st, by whom he had one son. After her death he married the
 mother of the subject of this sketch. McDonald's education was obtained
 in the district schools of Kentucky. In September, 1863, he went to
 Eminence College, and remained there two years. In 1865 he came to
 Illinois, and taught school in Jackson county, and while teaching read
 the standard text books upon medicine. His reading hours were confined to
 the nights and morning hours before opening the school. He read under the
 tuition and direction of Dr. Daniel Neal, of Manning's Prairie. After the
 close of the school term he came to Shelby county, and stopped with his
 brother in Dry Point township, and here pursued his studies with another
 Dr. Neal. He then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinn ati, and
 took one course, and returned to Dry Point township, and commenced the
 practice in March, 1867. In the fall of 1879, he re-entered the Medical
 College at Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated in March, 1880, with the
 degree of M. D., and resumed the pr actice of his profession. He located
 in the town of Cowden, when it was first laid out, and was the first
 physician and druggist in the village. He has contributed much to the
 prosperity of the town, built many houses, engaged in different business,
 and a ll the time kept up his practice. He was a member of the first
 board of trustees of the town. He is a live, active, energetic worker,
 full of push and energy. Politically he is a sound democrat. He is a
 member of the order of A. F. and A. M., and was W. M . of his Lodge, and
 was also N. G. of the I. O. O. F. As a physician he belongs to the
 progressive school of medicine, and advanced modern practitioners. His
 first case was a patient with delirium tremens -- and the first in
 obstetrics, triplets. He treat ed both scientifically and successfully.
 Dr. Carlisle has many friends in Shelby county. He is a member of the
 District Medical and Shelby County Medical Societies