Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . xt block west, wliere Was-sons store is 7iow located. In 1S52 he wasIlected justice of the peace, and was calledfrom this to the office of mayor. He wasthe popular taihu- of the day, and was notableas the player of the bass tr<)nd)one in thefirst Indianapolis baiul, as well as one ofthe star performei-s of the Indianapolis Thes-pian Corps. In 1855 he was Ie-eleeted, de-feating Lawrence SI. Vance, the Knownoth-ing candidate, 1,469 to 1,221. :Mr. .McCreadyremoved, in 1903, to (alifornia an
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . xt block west, wliere Was-sons store is 7iow located. In 1S52 he wasIlected justice of the peace, and was calledfrom this to the office of mayor. He wasthe popular taihu- of the day, and was notableas the player of the bass tr<)nd)one in thefirst Indianapolis baiul, as well as one ofthe star performei-s of the Indianapolis Thes-pian Corps. In 1855 he was Ie-eleeted, de-feating Lawrence SI. Vance, the Knownoth-ing candidate, 1,469 to 1,221. :Mr. .McCreadyremoved, in 1903, to (alifornia and remainetlthere for six years. He then returned to In-dianapolis, and made his home with his sonFrank (Beiijaiiiin Franklini. where he diedVol. I—11 on October 9, 1909, at the advanced age of93 years. The Democrats won again at the electionon ^[ay 6, 1856, their candidate, Heiu-y , defeating Sims A. Colley, Republican,1,515 to 1,183, which was practically the voteall down the ticket. Mr. ^Vest was a veryinteresting character, ami it is astonishinghow little has been preserved concerning him. llliMlY K. WEST.(Fifth Mayor of Indianapolis.) in local histories, lie was liorn at , ;\Iarch 14, 179t). On January6, 1820, he married Betsey ^litchell, of South-berry. Connecticut, and .soon after removedto Maneliester. Clinton County, New few- years later he went to Pulatki. OneidaCounty, New York, then to Kochester, NewYork, then to Circleville, Ohio, and then toDayton, where the first Mi-s. West died in1842. He came to Indianapolis about engaged in vaiious lines of business. He ic-, HISTORY OF GI!KATER IXDIANAPOLIS. had conducted a newspaper for a time inOhio, and here lie started an edneational,semi-monthly, paper called the ConuiioiiSchool Advocate, the first of the kind inIndiana, preceding; the Indiana School Jour-nal by a decade. It was devoted to the advo-cacy of free schools, and furnished the sub-stantial aruinnents that made the
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