WEST

ISAAC P. WEST, druggist, was born in Ohio, June 22, 1845. He was raised
in Ohio, and at the age of eighteen joined the Fourth Virginia Cavalry,
in which he served for six months, and then enlisted in the One Hundred
and Forty-eighth Illinois Infantry for one year. He served seven months,
and was then mustered out and attended school one year in Cambridge,
Ill., at the end of which time he was employed as a clerk in a store at
Galva, Ill., for a short time, and then went into the restaurant
business at Woodhull, Ill., remaining six months. He was then employed
as a clerk in a drug store at Woodhull, Ill., one year, at the end of
which time he
bought an interest in the firm and remained about nine years. He then
came to Columbus, Kan., and began the drug business in 1876. Mr. West is
a member of the K. of P. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Hunter, of
Ohio, in 1871. They have two children- Claud R. and Lisle E.

Source: Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, 1883
Contributed by: Susie Martin-Rott
rootbound2@geocities.com


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