Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — MAJOR GENERAL CARNAHAN DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAJOR GENERAL CARNAHAN DEAD

Head of Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias Since ISB4 ucoumbe in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3. —Major General James Richards Carnahan, commander of the uniform rank, Knights of Pythias of the World since

1884, is dead at Ills home in this city. General Carmi han was born in Dayton, Ind., Nov. 18, 1841. When 15 years old C a rnahan started to earn an education. At the end of a year, through the failureof a bank, he had assets of

but 85- Despite this fact he entered Wabash college at Crawfordsville and earned his own way until the opening of the civil war. when he joined “Wallace’s Zouaves.” After the war he returned to college, being graduated In 1866 and beginning the practice of law. He was instrumental in organizing one of the first drill companies in the Knights of Pythias. Tn 1881 he made adjutant general of Indiana, and under him the state militia grew to one of the best organizations in the west. When the uniform rank. Knights of Pythias, was reorganized In 1884, General Carnahan was appointed major general, commanding, and that position he held to the tlnje of- his death.

MAJOR GENERAL CARNAHAN.