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In Wayne Township, Samuel Kiser laid out a town he named West Point, and Miles Dimmett laid out an addition to it. At first the town carried the name Middleton.
Evidently under new law, Lafayette's town trustees laid out wards and called an election May 5 to choose corporate officers. In the election voters chose Cyrus Ball president, or mayor.
The Lafayette town board adopted an ordinance prohibiting disorderly conduct.
Tippecanoe County supported winning Whig Noah Noble for governor with 904 votes to 597 for Democrat James G. Read. Noble won the statewide race by about 9,000. The county elected James Davis and Benjamin Henkle to the Indiana House. State Sen. Othniel L. Clark, Lafayette, won re-election in a district composed of Carroll, Cass, Miami, Tippecanoe and White counties, 1,615 to 1,098 over Samuel Milroy. Tippecanoe backed Clark with 929 to 547.
The county commissioners conducted a hearing about licensing a public ferry across the Wabash River at the Main Street landing.
Sale of stock began for Lafayette's first bank - a proposed State Bank of Indiana, Lafayette Branch, for which a 20-year charter had been issued. Directors, half named by the state, were William F. Reynolds, John Purdue, Samuel Hoover, William K. Rochester, Israel Spencer, Joseph S. Hanna and Elizur Deming.
Peter Longlois, a Frenchman who ran pioneer Indian trading posts along Wildcat Creek and elsewhere in the region, died at Logansport.