Clatsop County OR Archives Biographies.....Carnahan, H. F.  August 16, 1852 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 767
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     H. F. CARNAHAN, now living in Seaside, has put aside the cares and 
responsibilities of active business life but for many years was prominently 
connected with lumber manufacturing in the northwest, where his entire life 
has been passed. For more than three-quarters of a century Oregon has numbered 
him among her citizens and he represents one of its oldest pioneer families. 
He was born in Astoria, Oregon, August 16, 1852. His father Hiram Carnahan, 
had come to the northwest in 1846, crossing the plains with Oregon as his 
destination. He was born in Tennessee, July 22, 1820, and in young manhood 
wedded Mary E. Morrison, who crossed the plains with her parents in 1848. She 
was a daughter of R. W. Morrison, who, with William Shaw was a captain in the 
wagon train of which Cornelius Gilliam was leader, the train numbering about 
eighty wagons. Mr. Carnahan had made his way to the Clatsop Plains, where many 
of the emigrants of 1844 and 1845 had settled. In the fall of 1848 he went to 
the mines of California, attracted by the recent discovery of gold, but in the 
fall of 1849 returned and took up a donation claim on Clatsop Plains. It was 
about that time that he married. He afterward traded three hundred acres of 
his claim for a part of the claim of Judge Cyrus Olney.

     The family thus became closely identified with the pioneer development 
and early progress of the state and H. F. Carnahan has been for more than 
three quarters of a century an interested witness of the growth and upbuilding 
of Oregon. He started to school in 1859, when seven years of age, the sessions 
being held in the old Presbyterian church on Clatsop Plains, which was the 
first Presbyterian church built west of the Rocky mountains. The teacher of 
this school was Dr. Owens-Adair, a strict disciplinarian whose punishment of 
Mr. Carnahan made a strong impression on his mind. At a later period he 
attended the South Clatsop school for several years and his last teacher was 
Professor Thomas A. McBride, at one time a judge of the supreme court of 
Oregon. Mr. Carnahan started out to provide for his own support in 1879, 
working in the Booth salmon cannery at Astoria. A year later he secured 
employment in a sawmill and has devoted the greater part of his life to the 
manufacture of lumber, continuing active in the business world until 1915, 
when he retired and has since enjoyed well earned rest. He made for himself a 
creditable name and place among the lumbermen of the northwest who have 
constituted so important a contributing factor to the development of this part 
of the country. He has a wide acquaintance among the pioneer people of Oregon 
and among the later-day arrivals, and all who know him entertain for him that 
warm regard and high respect which are the logical outcome of a well spent 
life.

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