Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — CALEB WALTON WEST, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALEB WALTON WEST,

Newly Appointed Governor of Utah Territory. The«nan whom President Cleveland has selected to succeed Eli H. Murray as Governor of Utah is a resident of Cynthiana, Ky., where he was born May 25, 1844. He was educated at Millersburg, in the same State. At an early age he manifested a strong bias toward the profession of law, but his reading was stopped by the breaking out of the war. He was only 17 years old when he enlisted

in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was one of the company led by Joe Desha. After a year’s service under Desha, Mr. West joined the command of General John Morgan, and was one of his staff when that officer was in camp at Greenville. At the close of the war he prepared himself for the law. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, after serving for a time as Deputy Clerk, during which he read diligently. In the same yedr —1866—he was appointed County Attorney to fill an unexpired term, and was afterward elected to continue in the same position. • He was elected County Judge of Harrison County in 1868, but resigned the position to prosecute his profession, As a lawyer he haa been notably successful.