The Mankato free press., 1909-12-10
j. 5. KARMANY DEAD
PIONEER AND BRAVE SOLDIER
ANSWERS THE SUMMONS.
End Came Peacefully at Eight O'clock
Last Evening; Was Eighty-Thref
Years of Age; Among Those Who
Suffered the Horrors of RebC
Prison Life; For Years Highly re
srected Citizen of Mankato.

From Mondays n,iiv-
Uriah 5. Karmany, one of the oldest
residents of Mankato, passed quietly
away at eight o'clock last night at
THE Emmanuel hospital, where he has
been seriously i'll for the past two
weeks and half. Mr.. Karmany would
have been eighty-thrce years Of age
! had he lived until the eighteenth OF
next February, and had enjoyed re-
marllable good health until about
four weeks ago, when an illness oc
CURED that resulted in blood poison
ing, which caused his death.
Native of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Karmany was born near Leb
anon, Pa, where his parents, Henry
and Mary Smith Karmany, who were
of German origin, lived for a num-
Der of years. Mr.. Karmanys boy
hood was spent on a farm, attend
ing school during the winter months,
but at the age of sixteen, received
some education at an academy near
his home. During his seventeenth
year his parents moved to Mercersburg:
Pa, and a year later settled at East
Hanover. In 1853, Mr.. Karmany, at
the age of twentysix, went west to
seek his fortune, spending a few
months with mis- uncle at Freeport,
I'll. In September of tn same year
he went to st. Paul, anG from there
came to this city where he arrived in
December. Mr.. Karmany first maH~
claim on Agency hill, but abandone-
it the next spring and spent t.
summer of 1854 in the employ of the
Russell boys, who were engaged in
running fatboat on tine Minnesota
river for Nathan Myrick. The small
steamer lola was substituted for the
flatboat in the fall of that year, and
Mr.. Karmany had many "reminiscences
of his river experience. After spending
the winter of lS54-5 clerking for Rob
ert Wardlaw, who conducted store
in the Wardlow building on lot l,
block 6, he located claim in the
spring of 1855, on the hill back of the
cement work, which he afterwards sold
to Samuel Walker.
Was a Brave Soldier.
For a time before the war, he was
engaged in the butcher business, but
July Is, 1861. he enlisted in Company
II, Second Minnesota Infantry, and Oh
Sept. 81, 1868, while detailed to hos.
pital duty, at the battel of Chic. "a.
r,,o ha f,1ya s.
twenty months, until the close Oh the
war, suffered the horrors of rebel
prison life-frst at Libby and then
at Andersonville, Savannah, Milan and
Blackshire, and lastly at Andersonville
a second time. Possessed of an in
domitable pluck and shrewd tact, he
managed to survive the terrible or
deal, wehre thousands perished After
the close of the war, Mr.. Karmany
was engaged in the meat and grocery
business for over twelve years, most
of the time in connection with his
brother, James NJ. Karmany.
In 1875, he married Mrs. Mary Jane
Zero, nee Hinman. Mrs. Karmany died
May 5, 1899, leaving surviving, besides
her second husband, two children by
her first husband: Dir. Claud Zero of
Minneapolis, and Mrs F. A. Halstead
of Mankato. Mrs Karmany was a
daughter of Nathaniel Hinman, who
was descended from a prominent fam
lily of Connecticut, and was also the
widow of a Methodist clergyman.
Mr.. karmany has been retired from
business for the last ten years, hav-
ing made his home, since the death of
his wife, with his one surviving broth
er, James M. Karmany, with whom
he was connected in business Mr..
karmany is also survived by one sis
ter, Mrs. NJ. A. Sherk of this city.
One brother, Martin Karmany, died in
st. Paul about three years ago, and
sister, Mrs. Caroline Runkle, three
years older than the deceased, and
whose birthday occurred on the same
date, died four weeks ago at New
Hampton, Iowa.
Highly Respected Citizen.
Mr.. karmany was one of the most
respected and worthy citizens of Man
kato, and his departure from this
life will be sadly missed by a large
circle of friends, who knew him az
man of highest integrity and strict
est business principals. His charac.
ter was gentle and lovable one, and
those with whom he came in con-
tact, could not but feel benefited in
his presence. His life was an example