The Carlisle Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: CARLISLE
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 224-227

CARLISLE. The history of the family that once lived in this town bearing the name of Carlisle, 
is involved somewhat in an obscurity; although patient research and inquiry have been made for
more than a year. The following imperfect history of the family has been gathered from many and 
various sources. It appears from what information is gathered, that one David Carlisle came to 
this town, early in its settlement, from Lunenburg, Mass., but originally from Ireland, and that
he was a man somewhat advanced in life appears from the fact that his wife, Lattice, was born 
in 1704, and died in 1791. He settled on the place now owned by Edwin Guild, or in that 
immediate vicinity. He brought with him an under bed filled with charlock, a pernicious weed, 
which he emptied on to his land. Some of the seeds of the weed were in the bed, and took root,
and have since spread over considerable territory in town, giving the farmers much trouble when
it mingled with their crops. How many children Mr. Carlisle had is not known. One, however, 
David, remained on the place after his father’s death and was known as Captain David. He had a 
family of nine children, by his wife Sarah, who outlived him forty-one years, and died in Dec.
1838, aged 99. He died in 1797, aged 57. It is impossible to give the names and times of birth 
of his children in regular order, as no record has been found. Ch. 1st, John, b. in 1768; m. 
Rebecca, dau. of Eliphas Graves, in 1794. He d. Feb. 10, 1833; she died Aug. 21,1848, aged 80.
Ch. (1) Rebecca, b. July, 14,1794; m. Ruel H Keith of Newport. (2.) Fanny, b. Oct. 24, 1795; 
m. Calvin Graves of Cooperstown, N.Y. (3) George, b. Oct. 27, 1797. George’s father was a 
shoemaker, by trade, and carried on the business for many years in the building now standing at
the south end of the village and occupied as a dwelling b Mrs. Levi Hooper. He lived in the 
house now owned by the daughters of the late Jared Miller. When George was a small lad, in 
digging in his father’s garden, one day, he chanced to turn up a Spanish real, the value of 
twelve and one half cents. That real was the nest egg of his future wealth. He laid it by and 
added to it till the sum amounted to one dollar, when he bought a sheep, which he leased to a 
farmer for a certain time for one half the increase. When the increase of his sheep was 
sufficient he purchased a cow, which was leased in a similar way. He said in a letter to his 
son; "I never felt so rich before nor after as I did the day I found that Spanish real. At the 
age of sixteen he entered the store of Stone & Bellows, then in trade in town, as clerk, and at
the age of twenty he was entrusted with a large inventory of goods to dispose of in the western
wilds. Westport, Ky. was his first stopping place; and not finding a ready market for his goods
there, in about six months he removed to Cincinnati, O., then a comparatively small place, where
he found a quick, and remunerative sale. The next year, by order of the firm, he went to St. 
Louis to purchase buffalo robes, many of which were sent here. On returning to Cincinnati, he 
went into the store of Daniel Brooks & Co., Stone & Bellows being the Co. In 182, he assumed the
business of the house alone, and subsequently went into the firm of Carlisle, Mason & Co. 
During the rest of his business career he was a partner in four different firms and for many 
years President of the LaFayette bank. With a keen eye he foresaw the prospective growth of the
"Queen City" and invested his surplus gains accordingly. He built extensively in order to 
enhance the value of his adjacent lands, which proved a very wise undertaking, for much of his 
wealth was the result of the appreciation of real estate. 
	He made money every year during his business life in Cincinnati, except one, and that 
was in 1828, the year he was married, when he was absent from the firm six months, and entrusted
his business to his partners, which fact brings to mind Poor Richard’s maxim, "If you don’t keep
your shop, your shop won’t keep you." From letters of advice written by him to his sons the idea 
is gathered that his beau ideal of a man was to be a successful merchant. It is also inferred by
the same that he was a farseeing, honorable, punctual man. He generously remembered his 
connections in his native town in his will, besides bestowing many generous gifts on them while
living. He died in 1863, leaving a large property, estimated to amount to more than one million 
dollars, all of which he accumulated by energy, honesty, and a close application to business, 
in a little more than forty years. 2d, David. This David is supposed to be the printer who has 
heretofore been noticed as David Carlisle, jr. His wife’s name was Abigail. Ch. (1) Mary, b. 
Dec. 26, 1795. (2) Julius Quartus, b. July 4, 1798. 3d, Daniel, b. 1773; m. Phebe Fenton Oct.
7, 1793, and d. March 14, 1813, of spotted fever. She afterward married a man by the name of 
Farnsworth, and d. Jan. 28, 1828, aged 53. Ch. (1) Adeline, b. Feb. 13, 1800, m. John Black 
Sparhawk. She was a woman who was much esteemed by her neighbors and acquaintances; she died 
Sept. 4, 1869. (2) David, b. Jan. 6, 1803. (3) Frederick, b. Oct. 5, 1806; m. Emeline Livingston
and moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he now resides. Mr. Carlisle has by his industry accumulated
a competency, and is esteemed a generous, peaceable, and highly respectable citizen of the town.
(4) Daniel Webber, b. June 17, 1812. 4th, Levi. 5th. Thomas. 6th, Sarah, m. David Boynton, in 
1786. 7th, Lattice, m. Samuel Joslyn; she died; he then married her sister Mary, who was the 
widow of John C. Dana. 8th, Nancy, m. Amherst Stewart in 1795. 9th, Betsey, m. Abner Powers 1800.