Excerpt from The Indianapolis City Directory: For 1865 The annual progress in the varied business interest of the Commercial Emporium and Capitol of our State, demands increased labor, and corresponding improvement in each successive number of the City Directory. Our patrons will bear us witness that at no previous period in our history, has the improvement in every branch of business been more marked than during the past year. Increasing with regularity and rapidity since about 1850, the progress since 1862 has been almost unparalleled in the history of any other inland American city. In proof of our rapid advance in population, we need only refer to the fact, that the present number of the City Directory contains about fifteen hundred more names than the Directory for 1864, issued one year since. These names, it must be remembered, embrace householders, Leads of families, and business names and firms only. From this data it will be safe to presume that Indianapolis received an accession to her entire population, during the past year, of about twenty per cent. In canvassing the city and collecting matter for the present number, our canvassers have visited every house and place of business, and, in many instances, repeated calls have been made, for the purpose of perfecting, as far as possible, the details for this work. In its publication and delivery we have been unavoidably detained by the re-numbering of the city, which was not entirety completed at the date of our canvass. Where numbers do not occur, we Lave designated locations by streets and blocks, to obviate this difficulty as far as possible. Strangers, and others, who visit our city for business purposes, will find the most extensive establishments, in all the various branches, very fully represented in our advertising pages. For the liberal patronage extended us, our advertisers and subscribers have placed us under grateful obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.