CARLISLE, HORACE CALLAWAY, 1871-1957

Biography:

Office assistant, poet. Born– December 11,1871, Brundidge. Parents–Moses Napoleon and Ella B. Carlisle. Married–Vera Harris.  Children–two.   Taught in Alabama schools; principal of Center Point School;  aide in the U.S. Capitol Architect’s office for twenty-odd years.  Published many poems in the Congressional Record. Died November 27, 1957.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

Poems of Purpose. Baltimore; Williams and Wilkins Co., 1915.

Washington in Poems and Pictures. Washington, D.C.; s.n., 1929.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Horace Carlisle is held by the Manuscript Division of the U.S.Library of Congress.