CARNAHAN, JAMES RICHARDS: 1840-1905.
James Richards Carnahan , son of the Rev. James Aikman and Martha A. Carnahan, was born at Tippecanoe, Ind., on Nov. 18, 1840.
He enrolled in Wabash College but left in 1861 to enlist as a private in the I Ith Indiana Infantry. After serving throughout the war, he was mustered out as a captain in 1865, returned to Wabash, and graduated in 1866. In 1867 he graduated from Indiana Law School. He married Susan Elizabeth Patterson on Nov. 7, 1867.
Mr. Carnahan was a resident of Indianapolis at the time of his death in 1905.
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