The following is from the Cadiz Republican, Thursday March 2, 1905. BUSINESSMEN OF CADIZ Who Did Business Here Seventy Years Ago Some Names Belonging to the Dim and Distant Past In the year 1880 the Cadiz Republican published the following list of the names of the principal business men of the town of Cadiz, of the year 1835. ...It will be noticed that the Cadiz Sentinel is named, but not the Cadiz republican, the other paper in 1835 being called the Western Telegraph. The name of the Telegraph was changed to the Cadiz Republican five years later, in 1840, by William R. Allison, who was then its publisher. The following is the list: Court of Common Pleas. President, Judge Jeremiah Halleck, associates, Thomas Bingham, Robert Maxwell County Officers. Clerk, Wm Tingley; Treasurer, James McNutt; Auditor, Gen James McMillen; Sheriff, Wm Milligan; Deputy, Wm. Cady; Recorder, Samuel McCormick; Commissioners, John Ramage, Samuel Colvin. Justice of the Peace. Thos. Phillips, Wm Arnold. Postmaster. Thos. Phillips, with 12 pigeonholes, mails twice a week. Preachers. Revs. Wm. Taggert, Union; Thos. Hanna, Seceder; John McArthur, Presbyterian; James Taylor, Methodist. Elders. Presbyterian: John McGraw, Peter Bargar, Matthew McCoy, Alex Kerr, John Hanna. Union: David Thomson, Joshua Hamilton, Joseph McFadden, Francis Grove. Seceder: Thos. Lee, James Lee, Wm. Henderson, Robert Braden. Lawyers. General Walter Beebe, C. Dewey, S.W. Bostwick, Josiah Scott, Robert Miller, Robert Anderson. Doctors. Martin Wilson, John McBean, William Slemmons, Albert Osburn, Thos. Campbell. To be continued Sharon Laizure Hofer