Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ohn W. Blake was con-sidered to be of great piomise. He was alawyer in Clinton County, and representedthat coimty in the legislature of 1857. wherehe is said to have been an important factor inthe great senatorial controversy of that entered the Fortieth Indiana as lietiten-ant-colonel, was ])ronioted to colonel in 1862,and .served through the war. .After the warhe located at Indianapolis, living at the north-east comer of ^\alInlt and Tennessee boys were my playmates. H
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ohn W. Blake was con-sidered to be of great piomise. He was alawyer in Clinton County, and representedthat coimty in the legislature of 1857. wherehe is said to have been an important factor inthe great senatorial controversy of that entered the Fortieth Indiana as lietiten-ant-colonel, was ])ronioted to colonel in 1862,and .served through the war. .After the warhe located at Indianapolis, living at the north-east comer of ^\alInlt and Tennessee boys were my playmates. His wife wasan excellent lady, respected by all her neigh-bors ; and they had a sweet little girl who wasgenerally admired. Blake became a harddrinker, and went to pieces. The family to move to less attractive two boys became drunkards, and wereboth killed on the railroad tracks, while girl grew up and married a conductor— InrJ. Tli.^t. Snr. P«/).«.. Vol. 1. p. 1—29 Enrli/ Rrmlinsrnircs. p. 111. 4 -id ISTOltV ()|- (iKKATKi; C|Q^RS^. JERRY COLLINS AND DR. COOL.(From a sketch James B. Dunlap.) J HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS. 451 a very excellent man. He came home unex-pectedly one night and found her with a manshe had picked uj) at a saloon on .Masj^acluuseltsavenue. The hu>il)and shot him. A jiubliescandal and separation followed. Things wenifrom had to worse. Blake became almost apublic nuisance, and his family would havesuffered but for his pension. On April 4, 1904, a notable company leftIndianapolis for the dedication of the Indianangimental monuments at Shiloli. GovernorDurbin and statf were there in gorgeous uni-forms, and a throng of old soldiers and prom-inent citizens were at the de])i>t to accompanythem. Old Colonel Blake appeared at the de-pot. He had served with credit at portrait is in the monument commissioirsreport, and his nanu on the monument of theFortieth regiment, {h
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