Birmingham city directory, 1914: E. Frank Carlisle, clerk, and his family at 1017 South 19th Street
1914 · Birmingham City Directory for the Year Commencing January 1st, 1914, vol. 29 (Birmingham, Alabama: R. L. Polk & Co., 1914)
Named here: Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle, Georgia E. Davis, Effie Eugene Carlisle, Joel Dodson Carlisle, Carlisle Bailey, student, boarding at 1017 South 19th Street
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Transcription
Checked against the page images. In Polk's directories a name in brackets after a man's is his wife's, "h" means householder, "b" boarder, "clk" clerk, "whol" wholesale, and a business name in brackets after a person's is the business that person owns.
Page 447 (scan n448), alphabetical list:
Carlisle […]
" Effie E (Five Point Cigar Store), b 1017 s 19th
" E Frank (Georgia), clk Five Points Cigar Store, h 1017 s 19th
[…]
" Joel Dodson, whol cigars 708 Brown-Marx bldg, b 1017 s 19th
Page 602 (scan n607), alphabetical list:
Five Points Cigar Store (E E Carlisle), 1034 s 20th
Page 1373 (scan n1382), classified business directory, cigars wholesale: "Carlisle J D, 708 Brown-Marx bldg". Page 334 (scan n333), alphabetical list, among the Baileys: "Carlisle, student, b 1017 s 19th" (that is, Carlisle Bailey).
Citation: Birmingham City Directory for the Year Commencing January 1st, 1914, vol. 29 (Birmingham, Alabama: R. L. Polk & Co., 1914), 447, 334, 602 and 1373; Internet Archive item birminghamcitydi1914unse (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), scans n448, n333, n607 and n1382 (confirmed from the page images), https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n448/mode/1up?q=Carlisle. The Internet Archive catalogue dates the item 1909; its title page reads 1914 and nearly all its running heads "Birmingham City Directory (1914)" (page 447's reads "(1913)", a printer's slip).
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle | Name | E. Frank Carlisle | Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle; E. Frank Carlisle in the 1900 census | agrees |
| Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle | Residence | Householder, 1017 South 19th Street, Birmingham, early 1914 | Gadsden 1910; Birmingham 1920 and 1930 | new (in Birmingham by 1914) |
| Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle | Occupation | Clerk, Five Points Cigar Store | — | new |
| Georgia E. Davis | Marriage | Georgia, wife of E. Frank Carlisle | Wife of Elijah Benjamin Franklin Carlisle | agrees |
| Effie Eugene Carlisle | Occupation | Owner of the Five Points Cigar Store, 1034 South 20th Street; boarding at 1017 South 19th | — | new |
| Joel Dodson Carlisle | Occupation | Wholesale cigars, 708 Brown-Marx Building; boarding at 1017 South 19th | — | new |