Caro, Biographies, Indian Fields, Tuscola Co., MI

This history was extracted from "History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Mich.
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of their Prominent Men 
and Pioneers", published in Chicago by H. R. Page & Co. (1883), p. 93-104

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.



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 WILLIAM N. WEST was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1840. He was brought 
up on a farm and received his education at the Canandaigua Academy. For some two 
years after leaving the academy he read medicine. He afterward went to West 
Virginia and entered into mercantile business. From there he removed to Adrian, 
Mich. After remaining there for a year he located at Ply-mouth, Wayne County, 
Mich., staying there three years. In 1875 he decided to make Caro his home. He 
had in previous years paid some attention to reading law, and on coming to Caro 
decided to adopt the legal profession and for a year applied himself to the 
study of law. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice. He was 
appointed by Gov. Jerome to the position of circuit court commissioner to fill a 
vacancy, acting in that capacity for six months. In 1876 he was elected a 
justice of the peace, and in 1881 was re-elected. Is married and has one son.