BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO "History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890. Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater. Page 623. ROBERT CARLILE Robert Carlile, one of the prosperous farmers of Richland township, Belmont county, is a native of Ireland. He is the youngest of eleven children of John and Mary (Marrow) Carlile, and of these children three others, James, John and Elizabeth, survive. Robert was reared in his native land, and in 1848 he emigrated to America. Settling first at St. Clairsville, he was employed in farm work at $100 per year, and was so engaged for two and a half years. In 1851 he was married to Helen, daughter of Hugh and Mary (Martin) Marrow. Her parents were natives of Ireland, and resided there until their death. She came to America in 1847, and made her home in St. Clairsville. By this marriage there were born four children, two of whom are living: John T., who now resides with his parents, and Hugh H., who is engaged in the lumber business in Washington state. Mr. and Mrs. Carlile are both members of the Presbyterian church, and are highly respected for their good qualities of heart and mind as well as for those traits which have made their career in life one of success. When they were married they began house-keeping on rented land, and it was not until twelve years were past that they bought forty acres north of St. Clairsville. Four years later he rented a large farm on the Warnock pike, and nine years after that he sold the forty acres he first bought and purchased 192 acres where he now resides. This is land of fertile qualities, and is supposed to be underlaid by bountiful supplies of oil or gas, as there is an oil well at the distance of a mile and a half. There are also underneath it immense beds of coal.