James Mandeville Carlisle (S&B 1901)
Westminster School. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Harvard University.
Married Edith Kent Carlisle(1879 to 1975)
Jan 1922, became associated with G. Quincy Peters (B.A. Harvard 1906) and Thomas Pearson (B.A. Princeton 1915), and continued in this connection until his death. The firm, which was known as Carlisle, Peters & Company, conducted a general business in investment securities.[4]
1921, entered the banking business. He served as manager of the Washington branch of Hambleton & Company, investment bankers of Baltimore, for six months.[4]
1919, upon Mr. Carlisle’s return from service overseas, the firm became Carlisle, Howe & Swayze, by the admission of Samuel E. Swayze, and afterwards specialized in representing correspondent clients and lawyers before the various government agencies in Washington. After a year, however, Mr. Carlisle gave up the practice of law.[4]
WW1 - Major, Adjutant General Department.[2] He was assigned to the Headquarters of the Northeastern Department at Boston, and in September became acting adjutant. During July and August, 1917, he was stationed at the New Hampshire National Guard Camp at Concord, and from November, 1917, until May, 1918, when he went overseas, he was with the 4th Division at Charlotte, N.C. His foreign service included a short period with the 2d Corps at Fruges and several weeks at the Staff College at Langres. He was on staff duty with the 80th Division during the St. Mihiel engagement, and was then assigned to the 7th Corps. He saw service with the 6th Division at Gerardmer, and with the 3d Corps at Rampont and Malancourt during the Meuse-Argonne operations. After the armistice he was with the Army of Occupation at Wittlich, Germany, for a while. He received his discharge from service on February 19, 1919.[4]
1909 - Walter Howe (his classmate and brother-in-law) joined the firm, the name of which was changed in 1912 to Carlisle, Luckett & Howe, and after the death of Mr. Luckett, to Carlisle & Howe.[4]
1908 - Married Edith Kent, daughter of Major General Joseph Prentice Sanger, U.S.A. retired and Frances E. (Kent) Sanger. They had children, Katherine James Mandeville, Jr, and Edith, all of whom, with their mother, survive him.[4]
3 Years in the law office of his father’s former partner, William G. Johnson.[4]
1904 - Harvard Law School.[4]
1901 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 10 Nov 1922, from Pneumonia. Age 43. Episcopal Church.
Note:
Son … James Mandeville Carlisle IV,
Daughters … Edith Carlisle, Katherine Ourusoff
Father … Calderon Carlisle, Esq (1852 to 1901). Died 16 Sep 1901, Aged 49. Same year of graduation of his son, James Mandeville Carlisle (S&B1901).
Grandfather … James Mandeville Carlisle, Esq (1814 to 1877). Lawyer of Supreme Court. A Washington attorney, was retained by various Central and South American governments and the British legation as legal adviser. Counsel to President Abraham Lincoln. [6]
Died 19 May 1877, from Not Known. Age 62.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[5] - Major James Mandeville Carlisle, US Army
[6] - The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield Illinois IV
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