Here is a "directory" of businessmen in Lafayette, published in the
Tippecanoe Journal and Free Press, January 8, 1846. They are posted
here just to add a little "meat to the bones" and for a little human
interest. Some of the streets mentioned have been renamed.
TRADESMEN
A. LOYD, saddler south side Main street between public square and canal.
Lafayette, In.
S. DANFORTH, watchmaker and jeweler north side Main street, west public
square.
GEORGE H. HAY, manufacturer and dealer in shoes, boots, and leather.
Sign of the Boot, Main street.
SAMUEL FISHER, wagon maker. Shop on Illinois street, south of the
Public Square opposite first Presbyterian Church, Lafayette, Indiana.
H. J. MULFORD, cabinet maker, shop south west corner of Ohio and Ferry
streets, Lafayette, Indiana.
J.S. & A. CASAD, hat manufacturer, signs of the Golden Hat, north side
of Main street, west of the Public Square, Lafayette, Indiana.
JAMES E. JOHNSON, stone cutter & engraver, shop on the corner of
Illinois and Brown streets in the house formerly occupied as the burr
mill stone manufactory. Lafayette, Indiana.
S. J. SMITH, Windsor chair maker and painter, shop Mississippi, between
North and Brown streets, Lafayette.
THOMAS S. COX, tinplate worker and coppersmith, shop on Main street,
north of the Public Square.
D. & W. HANDLEY, hatters, Main st., south side between Wabash and Ohio
sts.
PHYSICIANS
Doct. LUTHER JEWETT, three doors north of the Lafayette House.
Dr. ISAAC SMITH, Physician and Surgeon. Main street, north side, 2
doors below Wabash.
Dr. D.T. YEAKEL, Office 2 doors north of the Post Office.
Doct. MERRILL HALLIDAY, Physician and Surgeon. Office on Main street,
first door below the American House.
Doct. C.F. WILSTACH, office at the Lafayette Drug and Book Store, Main
st., opposite the Court House.
Doct. JAMES DAVIS, office east side of the public square near Main,
Lafayette, Indiana.
ATTORNEYS & MAGISTRATES
G. VAN SANIVOORD, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Museum Building,
Lafayette.
DANIEL MACE, Attorney at Law, Office in the Museum Building, N.E. corner
of Public Square, Lafayette.
EDWARD H. BRACKET, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Office opposite the
American House, Lafayette, Indiana.
GREGORY & THAYER, attorneys at law, office in Exchange Building west
side Public Square, Lafayette.
JAMES WHITE, attorney and counselor at law, office north side Main
street, a few doors east of the Public Square, Lafayette, Ind.
MERCHANTS
OTIS & CO., wholesale and retail dealer, in iron, nails, steel, stoves,
glass, leather and groceries.
BENBRIDGE & MIX, forwarding and commission merchants, Lafayette,
Indiana.
H. & J. STEWART, dealers in stoves and hollow ware, pig iron &c.
Illinois street south side public square.
WALKER & ROGERS, receiving, storing, forwarding and commission
merchants, Lafayette, Indiana.
DAVID ROSS, merchant, Main street, north side public square, Lafayette.
C. F. WILSTACH, druggist and bookseller, Main street, north side of
public square.
OFFICES
GEO. C. LAUMAN, Commissioner of Deeds &c. for State of New York. Office
No. 2, Benbridge's Row.
CYRUS BALL, agent for the Hartford Protection Insurance Company, office
at the Bank.
WABASH STANDARD, office on Main street, below Wabash, near the canal.
JOURNAL and FREE PRESS, office on Illinois st., third door north of Main
st.