Summary
Rogers W. Carlisle was born at Elk Rapids on September 6, 1897 and moved to Beaver Island in 1946 after retiring from work as a manufacturer’s representative in electric controls. The October 1971 Beaver Beacon credits him with helping establish the Beaver Island Boat Company and serving as its first president, while also connecting him to the Medical Center, Telephone Co-operative, Civic Association, and Game Club.
Island work
The obituary says Carlisle became active in many island civic affairs and later worked as a realty salesman. It also identifies him as a past president of the Beaver Island Game Club and describes lapidary as his hobby. These are preserved as the obituary’s account of his civic footprint; they do not establish that he founded each organization or held every office named in a surviving charter.
Evidence and limits
The source gives a birth date and death date and identifies his wife, children, and siblings, but no full civil file, land record, Boat Company corporate record, or Medical Center membership record is held here. Family relationships are not added as graph edges because the named relatives do not yet have episode-qualified records in this corpus.
See also
- Death and funerals of Rogers W. Carlisle (1971)
- Beaver Island Boat Company
- Beaver Island Game Club (1951 conservation award)
- Beaver Island Civic Association
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 1971, “Rogers W. Carlisle Passes.”Reports Carlisle’s September 6, 1897 birth at Elk Rapids, October 8 death at Little Traverse Hospital, 1946 move to Beaver Island, first presidency of the Beaver Island Boat Company, work toward the Medical Center, Telephone Co-operative, Civic Association, and other benefits, and past presidency of the Game Club; it does not supply incorporation, office, or complete civil records for those organizations.
- Beaver Beacon, February 1960, “Big Meeting.”Lists Rogers Carlisle as treasurer elected at the January 7 Beaver Island Civic Association meeting. The notice supplies no term or minutes; the same-person connection is retained with the later obituary record because that obituary also identifies his Civic Association work.
- Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “Game Club News.”Reports Rogers Carlisle giving an account of the Game Club’s activities for the past year at the hunters’ dinner. It does not establish a formal office or complete Club report.