Carlisle's history/story

Carlisle was the son of an angelican pastor. He was born sometime in the 1640s in LOndon England during a time of political and religious upheaval. Carlisle's father and other pastors led hunts on werewolves,witches and vampires claiming to rid the world of sin many a time killing innocent citizens. As his father aged Carlisle was put in charge of the raids after these creatures. He was less at ease about killing then his was father was but he was intelligent enough to find a real coven of vampires inhabiting the sewers of London. Carlisle led the hunt after these vampires and in the chaos that ensued he was attacked and left bleeding in the streets. Knowing what his father would do he hid in a potato cellar and emerged three days later as a vampire.Carlisle was repelled and horrified by what he had become and tried various ways of killing himself including starvation, jumping off a cliff, and drowning.Eventually he was so desperate for blood  that while hiding in a cave on  a forest he attacked a herd of passing deerHe found out that he could survive off of animal blood and he considered this more humane than drinking the blood of an human thereby killing them. Carlisle found new life in this fact and over the course of about two centuries was able to perfect his ability to resist the bloodlust created by the scent of human blood. During these two centuries Carlisle studied at night becomung a nighttime patron of the night. As a result of his meticulous studying he became a brilliant doctor. Carlisle was studying in Italy when he stumbled upon a coven of ancient vampires called the Volturi that include three vampires named Aro, Marcus, and Caius. They were much more educated and refined vampires than those living in the sewers of London but still drank human blood. They attemped to convert Carlisle to his natural food source but were unsuccessful. Carlisle then moved to the New World there he ended up working night shifts in a Chicagohospital during the Spanish Influenza epidemic. During this epedemic Carlisle encountered a dying woman named Elizabeth Masen. her son Edward was also dying. Elizabeth ordered Carlisle to do everything in his power to save her son as she lay dying. Out of loneliness he changed Edward as his companian then he Esme.