People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Death of Gen. A. M. West. [ARTICLE]

Death of Gen. A. M. West.

Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 2.—Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice president of the United States in 1884 on the green-back-labor ticket with Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, died at Holly Springs, Miss., Sunday. Gen. West was the first president of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans railway (now the Illinois Central) and was the pioneer railroadbuilder of the south.