• Henry Nelson Carlisle died about six months before his partner and oldest brother, Andrew, in the fall of 1878, in his sixty-ninth year, having been born in this city November 24, 1809. On the 27th of October, 1841, he was married to Miss Elizabeth McLene, of Columbus, a daughter of General Jeremiah McLene, who was at one time secretary of State, and subsequently a member of congress from Columbus. His wife and two daughters survive him.
From an obituary notice, published at the time of his death, we extract the following:
“Mr. Carlisle was a member of the firm of A. & H. N. Carlisle, the oldest firm in the city, and has been connected with the business at the present stand, corner of Main and Paint streets, since 1826 — over fifty years. He was a successful business man, growing not only in wealth during all these years, but in reputation for honest upright dealings. He was a man whose word was as good as his bond. In private life he was an unassuming, genial gentleman, kind-hearted and charitable; giving not ostentatiously but liberally, but where his judgment taught him charity would not be mis-applied. No man had more friends among the older and substantial citizens of the county, and his death will be a cause of universal regret.”
The officiating clergyman at his funeral was the Rev. Dr. Biggs, of the First Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Carlisle had been for many years a member. [4034]

• 1820 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. 030302/30210. [1586]
• 1830 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. 10013001/0132001. [1594]
• 1840 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Age 30-40. 001111001/01113001. [1609]
• 1850 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Age 40, b OH. $10,000 value of real estate. [153]
• 1860 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Age 50, b OH. Merchant. $10,000; $3,000. [1674]
• 1870 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Age 60, b OH. Keeps ret. dry goods store. [5502]