Carlisle, L. W.

CARLISLE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/14/2008 at 13:55:16

L. W. Carlisle

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.108, Hardin Twp.)
L. W. Carlisle, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in 1836 in Ohio, and is the son of John and Ann E. (Baldwin) Carlisle, who were also born in Ohio. He is the son of a farmer, and has two brothers and two sisters, all living in this county. He was educated in the common schools of his native State, and began life as a farmer. In 1861, Mr. Carlisle enlisted with the Fifty-fourth Ohio Regiment, Second Brigade, Second Division of Fifteenth Army Corps. He continued in the army till 1865, when peace was again established. He had one brother in the army for some time. Both came out with scarcely a scratch. He has always voted the Republican ticket. In the year 1860, he was first married to Cecilia Stuart, who was born in Ohio in 1838. Both of her parents died while she was quite small. His wife died in 1872. They have two children, both living in Pottawatatmie County, Iowa. In 1868, he moved from Ohio to this State, and stayed here till 1879, farming most of the time. Then he went to Ohio, sold his farm on Silver Creek, this county, and stayed in OHio till 1881, when he was again married, to Miss Louisa Standish, of Ohio, and came here to live, farming for the season on Mr. Barnard's farm, in Hardin Township. Mr. Carlisle's life has been one of quiet, it being spent mostly on a farm. In 1859 he took a trip to Pike's Peak, but soon returned.