Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 586.
 
J. M. CARNINE

     resides about two miles east from Condon and there does gardening. He is
one of the substantial men of the county and is also one of those who, in the
dark days of fratricidal strife in this country, gave his services to retrieve
the stars and stripes from insult.
     J. M. Carnine was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1837. His parents,
Alien and Lydia (McCarty) Carnine, were both born in Jefferson county, Indiana,
the former in 1810 and the latter in 1820. The father's father came from Holland
and settled in Indiana. When nine years of age, our subject came with the
balance of the family to Iowa, where he received his education and labored
betimes upon his father's farm. At the time of the gold excitement in California
the father wished to go thence but was dissuaded by the pleadings of our
subject. The parental roof sheltered J. M. until he was twenty-two years of age
then he went to Missouri, in 1860 and engaged in the nursery business. He had a
fine large business when the war broke out and continued the same for some time
thereafter but the rebels threatened his execution and he was repeatedly warned
to get out.  One night they hanged three of his neighbors and threatened to hang
him so he unceremoniously went to his old home in Indiana. The rebels destroyed
the entire nursery. In September, 1861, our subject enlisted in the Thirty-
seventh Indiana and served three years in the army of the Cumberland. He was in
the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Kenesaw and many
others. Mr. Carnine knows from sad experience what the awful carnage of war is
as well as the rigorous service of the true soldier. He fought faithfully and
well and served his country as a patriotic son should do and when the strife was
over was honorably discharged. He went back to Van Buren county, Iowa and worked
at his trade of plastering, which he had learned in younger years. Next we see
him in Milton, Iowa, where he farmed for some time then removed to Missouri and
bought a large farm and orchard. He had a beautiful place and continued there
for eight years after which he went to Kansas and took a soldier's homestead. He
acquired a fine property there, four hundred and eighty acres of land and one
hundred and thirty head of cattle and much else. All this was the result of his
careful management, his industry and his trade. Thence he journeyed to Cowlitz
county, Washington, in 1889 and engaged in gardening and fruit raising until
1901. Owing tothe ill health of his daughter, Mr. Carnine removed thence to
Gilliam county, in 1901, and it is pleasant to relate that Miss Carnine has
fully recovered her health in this salubrious climate.
     In Van Buren county, Iowa, in 1865, Mr. Carnine married Miss Sara C.
Clarke. She was born in that county, on August 7, 1846 and her father was Samuel
Clarke now deceased. To this union, five children have been born: Ellsworth, a
ticket agent on the Santa Fe road; Ulyssus, who has a homestead on Rock creek;
Albert, who has a homestead near his brother, and Lydia, who also owns a
homestead on Rock Creek.
     Mr. Carnine is a member of the G. A. R. and a strong Republican. Since he
was fifteen years of age, he has been a member of the Methodist church and has
always taken an active part in church work. He has often been class leader and
Sunday school superintendent and is deeply interested in these things.  His
brother, Robert A. Carnine, is presiding elder of the Methodist church of
Denver, Colorado.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.