Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — HONEST JOHN KILLEAN DEAD [ARTICLE]

HONEST JOHN KILLEAN DEAD

Was Elected Mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich., cn Greenback Ticket. Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 3.—ExMayor Killean, known as "Honest John,” is dead as the result of an accident he suffered three years ago when his buggy was backed off a bridge at Cascade, and his back badly sprained. Mr. Killean was seventy-eight years old, and had lived here since 1863. He took a prominent part in politics thirty years ago, being elected mayor on the Democratic and Greenback ticket In 1889.