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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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Arthur, railroad manager, 1864, in Chillicothe, Ohio. a thorough education in the public and in private schools of his native state. In 1883 he entered railway service;

Carlisle, Charles

was born May

He

received

4,

and since 1893 he has been assistant general manager and purchasing agent of the Chicago and South Bend railroad, and also its treasurer. He is a director and purchasing agent of the Studebaker brothers' manuand secretary of the

facturing company; South Bend fuel and gas company; and is prominently identified with various other in-

dustrial corporations. Carlisle, J.H., railroad manager, was born Oct. 33, 1860, in Lexington, 111. He entered railway service in 1877; and inl878-80 was clerk, operator and dispatcher on the Toledo, Peoria and western railroad. He has been operator and dispatcher on the Chicago and Alton railroad and on the Louisville, Evans-

and St. Loviis railroad. In 1884-89 he was a train dispatcher on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway; in 1889-91 was chief train dispatcher; in 1891-93 was trainmasville

ter;

and since 1893 has been assistant super-

intendent of that railroad. Carlisle,

James Henry, educator,

president, author,

was born May

4,

college

1825, in

Winnsboro, S.C. He was educated in Mount Zion at Winnsboro; at Camden, S.C; in 1844 graduated from the South Carolina college; and received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. In 1854-1905 he was professor of mathematics at Woflford college at Spartanburg, S.C; in 1875-1903 was president of that institution; and since 1903 has been emeritus president.

He

is

the editor of Lives of

Ascham

and Arnold; and The Young Astronomer. Carlisle, John Griffin, lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1835, in Kenton, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky state house of representatives during 1859-61; he was nominated for presidential elector on the democratic ticket in 1864, but declined and was a member of the state senate in 1866-71. He was the delegate at large from Kentucky to the national democratic convention in 1868; and was lieutenant-governor in 187175. He was alternate presidential elector for the state at large in 1876; and in 1877-89 he was a representative to the forty-fifth to the fiftieth congresses. In 1883-87 he was speaker of the house for the forty-eighth and for;

ty-ninth congresses. In 1889-93 he was United States senator. In 1893-97 he was secretary of the treasury. Carll, John Franklin, civil engineer, inventor, was born 7, 1828, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

May

He

devised the static pressure sand-pump, removable pump-chamber and the adjustable sleeve for piston-rods now used in operating ou-wells. In 1874 he became attached to the geological survey of Pennsylvania; and afterward was assistant in the oil and gas region. He died in 1904 in Pleasanton, Pa.

Carlson, Anton Julius, educator, scientist, was born Jan. 29, 1875, in Sweden. He has received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He was assistant of physiology at Stanford university; research assistant of the Carnegie institution and is professor of physiology at the university of Chicago, 111. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of The Physiology of the Heart; and Physiology of the Salivary Secretion.

Carlton, Caleb Henry, soldier, was born in Ohio. He served in the regular army during the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1897 he became a brigadier-general; and was retired the same year after forty years of service. Carlton,

Henry

Hull,

soldier,

physician,

journalist, lawyer, congressman, was bom May 14, 1835, in Athens, Ga. He was educated at the state university of Georgia; and also graduated from the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected a, representative to the general assembly of Georgia in 1872; and was successively re-elected till 1877 inclusive, when he declined re-election. He was state senator in 1884-85; and president of the senate

during that term.

In 1899 he again served

in the state legislature. He practiced medicine for several years until 1872; was editor and proprietor of the Athens Banner until 1880, when he commenced the practice of law; and was elected city attorney of Athens. He was four years in the confederate army, under General Lee, holding the rank of lieutenant, captain and major of artillery,

^n 1887-91 he was a representative from Georgia to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. During the PortoRican campaign of 1899 he served as major and inspector general on General James T. Wilson's staff. Carlton, Peter, congressman. In 1807-09 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the tenth congress. He died in New

Hampshire. Carleton, Thomas, clergyman, was born July 26, 1808, in Londonderry, N.H. He entered the Genesee conference of the methodist episcopal church in 1839 and was connected with that conference for twenty-three years, preaching in Rochester, Buffalo, and other places in western New York. He died

April 16, 1874, in Elizabeth, N.J.