Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
Linn County~~
DR. J. L. CARNAHAN was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., August 14, 1843;
he was raised and educated in his native State, having partially
completed his studies at the Wabash College in 1861, at the age of
seventeen years. He enlisted in the Tenth Indiana Battery, October 7,
1861, as a private. He was afterward promoted to Sergeant, in which
position he served until the close of the war. After his return home
from the war, he completed his education; he then entered the medical
department of the University of Michigan, during the years of 1868 and
1869; he then located in Dayton, Ind., his native town, where he
practiced for five years, when he removed to Fowler, Benton Co., Ind.,
where he remained until 1878, when he located at Frankfort, Ind., where
he engaged in the practice of his profession for three years. In
1881, he came to Kansas and settled at Pleasanton, where he is actively
engaged in the practice of his profession. He married in Dayton, Ind.,
October 20, 1869, Isabelle Toole, of Indiana, born June 10, 1844. They
have three children - Aldercy, Lizzie and James A.