• On my way to Cornell in summer of 1891, I stopped off at South Bend, Indiana to visit Charlie Carlisle at Tippecanoe, the home of the Studebakers. Found they were at French Lick Springs on a Tally-ho trip but would be back before dinner. I was showed to a bed room to wait. A valet wanted to get out my dress suit, of which I had none...Nothing but the light suit I was traveling in. Anyway when they came everybody was very pleasant & put themselves out to be nice. Charlie Carlisle afterwards visited me in Palo Alto one day.173

• Mr. Carlisle is a director of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, of South Bend, Ind., in charge of the purchasing department, the advertising department, and the traffic department.1206, p 10

• Mr. Thos. A. Edison says:
“Carlisle is a typical American, sanguine, pushing and bright; a man of the “Woolly West,” where everybody hustles and business is limited only by nervous prostration.”1206, p 11

• Age 49 in 1913, living in South Bend.1291

• As an example my cousin, Charlie Carlisle, who a short time ago was worth millions of dollars and had no cloud on the financial horizon, is now reduced to an extent which is pitiable. He and his family are having a hard time making both ends meet.459

• Among the children announcing their parent’s Golden Wedding Anniversary, 1 Sep 1909.1301

• Parents are Meade Woodson Carlisle and Emma Valeria Barr.1914

• Colonel Charles Arthur Carlisle, industrialist and banker, died today at his home here after an illness of six years. His age was 74.
Colonel Carlisle was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and in 1883 he entered the services of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railway. He was for a time with The Ohio State Journal and after that with the Nickel Plate Railroad and Toledo & Ohio Railway, the Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati Railways at various times before coming to South Bend in 1892.
Since that time Colonel Carlisle served as purchasing agent and advertising manager of the Studebaker Corporation for twenty-three years and as a director of the South Bend Fuel and Gas Company, the Chicago & South Bend Railway, the South Bend Malleable Iron Company; Milmore Corporation, the Perkins Corporation and the Security Life Insurance Company of Chicago.
Colonel Carlisle was married on Sept. 17, 1891, to Miss Anna Studebaker, only daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clem Studebaker. She died on Jan. 3, 1931. Two daughters and three sons survive.1915

• 1880 Census: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio. Age 16, b OH. Parents b OH.1295
• 1930 Census: Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana. Age 65, b OH. $100,000 value of home. Retired. Parents b OH. 6 servants in household.1916