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Surnames: Carnahan, Hawkes, Simmons
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Would anyone like to match these folks up to a line.
Take care - Emma
* 1947 - Sept. - D. Record - Info. from obit.
Obit - Chicago Tribune - Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois - 9 Sept. 1947:
C. C. Carnahan Services Set; Chicago Lawyer
Private services for Charles Calvin Carnahan, 79, for 55 years a practicing lawyer in
Chicago, will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in his home at 800 Central and Wilmeate. He
died Sunday.
Mr. Carnahan served as trustee of the Century of Progress and as chairman of its legal
committee. He was born at Cochran's Mills, Pa., and came to Chicago in 1891. Mr.
Carnahan was Republican nominee for congress from the old 5th district on the old west
side gold coast in 1900, and als Republican nominee for judge of the Superior court in
1930.
He leaves his widow, Katharine, sister of United States Senator Albert W. Hawkes of New
Jersey, and two grandchildren, Donald C. and Katharine O. Simmons.