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This is the obituary of James Sullivan Carnahan as printed in The Carnahan
Newsletter, v6 #3 pg26. If anyone has complete death and burial dates,
please contact me.
Death Calls Attorney To A Long Sleep
James S. Carnahan Succumbs to Disease at Phoenix, Arizona, After Lingering
Illness, Funeral Sunday
James Sullivan Carnahan is dead. Weary with its long battle against disease
his spirit passed into that Great Beyond from which there is no returning
just as the hands of the clock marked 4 a.m. Tuesday. He had been unconscious
for the past four days, and his death had been expected. At his bedside
in Phoenix, Arizona, where he went last winter in hope that the milder
climate might do him good, was his wife, and brother, John Carnahan. The
body will leave Phoenix today and be taken to Grand Junction, arriving
here it is now expected on Saturday. it is probable that the funeral will
he held on Sunday. Later services will be received by Attorney Ben Griffith,
the deceased's law partner.
Brief History of Attorney Carnahan-
James S. Carnahan was born in Pennsylvania on November 28, 1859, was the
son of Thomas and Sarah (Moore) Carnahan, also natives of Penns., as were
their parents. His father was Scotch-Irish descent, and had all of the
thrift and resourcefulness of that wonderful combination of Nationalities.
Mr. Carnahan was the youngest of five children, all of whom are now living
except the deceased.
Mr. Carnahan was reared in his native state, and there received a district
school and academic education. when he was 20 years old he came to Colorado,
and located at Georgetown, engaged in mining until the fall of 1884. He
went to York, Nebraska, and read law with his brother, J.C. Carnahan, a
prominent attorney in that place. After finishing his course he passed
a year in Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar in Nebraska,
then came at once to Julesburg, Colo., and was admitted to the bar in Colorado.
On the organization of Sedwick county in the spring of 1889, with Julesburg
as the county seat, he was appointed county judge, and the following fall
was elected as a Republican to the lower house of the legislature, representing
Logan, Sedwick and Phillips counties, and in the fall of 1894 was re-elected.
In the summer of 1895 he moved to Grand Junction, and renewed the practice
of his profession, in which he has been very successful and continuously
occupied up to the time of his last illness.
Besides his wife and two sons, Attorney Carnahan is mourned by three brothers,
John, Ben, and Silas. His brother, Hugh, died last fall in Idaho. Both
of his parents are dead.
(Editors Note: James Sullivan Carnahan appears on the 1900 soundex in Grand
Junction, Mesa Co., Colorado, with his wife, Rose E. b. Nov 1872, Ohio,
and their 2 sons: Lawrence B. b. Sept 1891, Colo.; & Clarence H. b. Sept
1893 Colo. However James S. birth date is given as Nov 1862. No date appears
on the obituary above.)