History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 761. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] FRANK M. PEALE, merchant, P. O. Carlisle, a native of Highland County, Ohio; by the removal of his parents to Cincinnati in 1844, while he was two years of age, he became early in life a resident of that city, where he enjoyed the advantages of the primary and high schools, graduating from the latter in 1860. He then became a teacher in the first intermediate school, retaining that position until 1864; he was then made principal of of the Eighth District, where he remained until 1868, when he resigned to accept the junior partnership in the hat and fur house of C. B. Camp, where he remained until in 1872, when he came to Carlisle and engaged in merchandising. The firm now of Peale & Chappell, the largest dry goods and carpet house in Nicholas County. He is a gentleman of pleasing address and marked ability, and has been thoroughly identified with the business interests of State and County. He was married in 1870 to Miss Mattie I. Bruce, daughter of George S. Bruce and Sabina Metcalf, a niece of Governor Metcalf. By this union there has been one child, Ada B. He is a member of the Baptist Church, also of the order of Masons, K.T. and Odd Fellows. During the summer and fall of 1864 he was a non-commissioned officer of Gen. Butler's Division, in and around Petersburg and Richmond. His father was Samuel Peale, a native of Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg; the paternal grandparent a native of the central portion of England, and came at an early date to Pennsylvania. The wife of Samuel Peale was Margaret Crissey, a native of Cincinnati in its early history; her father was a native of Scotland, was married in Connecticut and immediately removed to a place then near Cincinnati. By this marriage there were nine children, seven of whom are living--four sons and three daughters: T. P., William C., F. F., T. F., M. Etta, Sally C., wife of D. George Cheesman, of Slate Lick, near Pittsburg; Arzelia, wife of Charles Liddell, a manufacturer of fancy soaps and perfumes in Cincinnati; T. F., engaged in a general merchandising at New Vienna, Ohio. The two eldest sons engaged in mercantile business on Central avenue, Cincinnati, after the retirement of their father, who was for many years a prominent wholesale merchant on Main street, Cincinnati. Peale Camp Bruce Metcalf CRissey Cheesman Liddell = Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Highland-OH PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/peale.fm.txt