Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — DEATH OF GEN. CARNAHAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF GEN. CARNAHAN

Head of the Pythian Uniform Hank DM a* latliaaaimila Brief Mmtok es Hie Ufa. Indianapolis, Aug.4.—General James R. Carnahan, major general of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, died yesterday al his home here after

an Illness of two weeks. James R.Carnahan was born at Dayton, Ind., Nov. 18, 1841. Immediately before the civil war he was attending Wabash college, at Crawfordsville, and joined the late Gen. Lew Wallace’s sou-, aves as a pri-

vate. Later he joined the Eighty-sixth Indiana regiment, to which he remained attached throughout the war, serving the last year as a staff officer. After the war he studied law and practiced for years at Lafayette. He joined the Knights of .Pythias in 1814 at Lafayette, went through all the chairs and was elected grand chancellor of Indiana in 1880. He was regarded as the founder of the Uniform Rank and was elected its first major general in 1884. He was past department commander of the G. A. R. and a prominent candidate for national commander at one time. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, under the auspices of the city and state Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias.

MAJOR GENERAL CARNAHAN.