Carnahan, Rev. David Franklin, was born in White Hall, Montour Co., Pa., Sept. 16, 1825.

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Carnahan, Rev. David Franklin, was born in White Hall, Montour Co., Pa., Sept. 16, 1825. Ile graduated at Lewisburg University, Aug. 18, 1852, and the same year, September 28, he was ordained as pastor of the Bridgeport church, Montgomery Co., Pa. In 1856 he was settled as pastor of the Calvary Baptist church in Philadelphia. In 1859 he was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Zanesville, O. He was subsequently pastor at Dayton, O.; Burlington, Iowa; Aurora (First church), Springfield, Urbana, Dixon, and Streator, Ill. He is now pastor of the Baptist church in Appleton, Wis. He was corresponding secretary and superintendent of missions of the Ohio Baptist State Convention from 1856 to 1861. He was superintendent of missions of the General Association of Illinois in 1867-68, and agent of the American and Foreign Bible Society in 1863. He acted as financial agent of the Wayland Academy for a brief period in 1878-79. During the war he was major of the 78th Regiment Ohio Vol. In- fantry in 1861-62, and was present with his regi- ment at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Cor- rinth, and Iuka, He served the Philadelphia As- sociation as clerk in 1855-56, and was recording secretary of the Baptist State Convention of Penn- sylvania in 1856. Mr. Carnahan has been and is still one of the most usefur ministers in the Baptist Church in the Northwest, and has never done a more successful work in bis fruitful ministry than he is now doing in Appleton, Wis. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave