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 CARLETON.

CARLISLE.

CARLETON, Will, author, was born at Hud- son, Lenawee county, Midi., Oct. 21, 1845. He was graduated from Hillsdale college in 1869. and entered the journalistic field, first in Chicago, and later in Brooklyn, N. Y. He became well known as a lecturer in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. His first and most noted poem, Betsy and I are Out, was sent anonjanously to the Toledo Blade in 1871 ; its authorsliip being afterwards claimed bj' another. His publications are Poewis : (1871) : Farm Bal- lads (1873) ; Farm Legends (1875) ; Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes (1876) ; Farm Fes- tivals (1881); Geraldine: a Romance in Verse (1881) ; City Ballads (1880) ; City Legends (1890); and City Festivals (1893) ; The Old Infant and similar stories (1896) ; Young Folks Centennial Rhymes.

CARLILE, John Snyder, senator, was born in Winchester, Va., Dec. 16, 1817. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and practised his profession at Beverley, Va. He was a member of the state senate from 1847 to 1851 ; was a delegate in 1850 to the state constitutional conAention. He was elected as a representative to the 34th Congress by the Unionist party, of which he was a promi- nent member. In 1861, as a member of the Virginia convention, he persistently opjjosed secession, and after the passage of the secession ordnance he became a leader of the Unionists in Virginia. Later he was a delegate to the Wheel- ing convention. He was elected as a representa- tive to the 37th Congress, but served in the house for a few days only, being elected to the U. S. senate, to succeed R. M. T. Hunter, where he served throughout the 87th and 38tli congresses. He died in Clarksburg, W. Va., Oct. 24, 1878.

CARLIN, John, painter, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., June 15, 1813, a deaf mute. He entered the Pennsylvania institute for the deaf and dumb in 1821, and was graduated in 1825, after which he studied art in Philadelphia. In 1833-'34 he studied drawing in New York city under J. R. Smith, and portrait painting imder John Neagle. He went to London in 1838, and studied the antique in the British museum. Thence he went to Paris and became a pupil of Paul Delaroche. In 1841 he made his i:)ermanent residence in New York city, devoting his time to miniature painting and afterwards to genre subjects and landscapes. He also won some success as a magazine writer. Among his paint- ings : The Flight into Egypt, Red Riding Hood. Pulpit Rock, Nahnnt, The Village Gos- sips (1880); The Tivin Grandchildren (1881)- Old and Young (1882); Solid Comfort (1884), and The Grandfather's Story (1885), were sent to the exhibitions of the artists' fund society, and An Autumn Afternoon (1871) ; A View

of Trenton Falls (1873) ; The Toll-Gale (1875) ; After Work (1878), and The Orphaned Grand- child (1886), were exhibited at the National academy of design. He died in New York city, April 23, 1891.

CARLIN, William Passmore, soldier, was born in Greene county, 111., Nov. 24, 1829. He was graduated at West Point with the rank of brevet 2d lieutenant of infantry in 1850, and assigned to duty at Fort Snelling, Minn. He was in active service during the Sioux expedition, and also in the Cheyenne and Utah campaigns, as 1st lieutenant, which rank he received in March, 1855. In 1858 he marched to California, where he remained in service for two years. In 1861 he received the rank of captain, and entered the volunteer service as colonel of the 88th Illinois volunteers. He was present at the defeat of Gen. Jeff Thompson at Frederickton, Mo., after which he commanded the district of southeastern Mis- souri. In October, 1862, he won, at Perryville, Ky., the promotion to brigadier-general of volun- teers. He took part in the TuUahoma campaign, and the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Moun- tain and Missionary Ridge. In November, 1868, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for distin- guished service at Chattanooga ; and in February, 1864, as major of the 16th United States infantry, was engaged in the Georgia campaign and at the surrender of Atlanta. On Sept. 1, 1864, at Jonesboro, Georgia, he won the brevet of colonel in the regular army; and for his faithful and efficient service in the march to the sea, the sur- render of Savannah, and the invasion of the Carolinas, he was made, in March, 1865, brevet major-general U. S. volunteers, and in the same month received the rank of brevet brigadier- general U. S. army. At the close of the war he was brevetted major-general of the regular army. He left the volunteer service in August, 1865, and was engaged in frontier duty during the Indian troubles, and in April, 1882, was made colonel. He was retired as brigadier-general, 1893. He died on a train in Montana, Oct. 4, 1903.

CARLISLE, James Henry, educator, was born in Winnsboro, S.C, May 4, 1825 ; son of Wil- liam and Mary Amy (Buchanan) Carlisle, and grandson of James and Mary Carlisle, who emi- grated from Ireland in 1820. He was graduated from South Carolina College in 1844, and became professor of mathematics at WofTord college, Spartanburg. S.C, in 1854, and was president, 1875-1902. He received the degree of LL.D. from Southwestern university in 1868, and is the autlior of the Lives of Ascham and Arnold (1886). The Young Astronomer (1890).

CARLISLE, James fl., educator, was born in Coffee county. Tenn.. May 11, 1851, son of James M. and May (Bird) Carlisle. He was educated