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The 1889 county history, read first-hand. Valley of the Upper Maumee River, with an Account of the Towns, Villages and Townships. Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1889. Two volumes; Volume I narrative, Volume II biographical sketches and township annals. Read first-hand in full text at the Internet Archive (valleyofuppermau02madi).
What it proved here: this is the book that settled the county-seat date. Its "Organization of Allen County" chapter (Vol. II, pp. 374–377) gives the board's first session as 24 May 1824 — the date this record prints; the 22 March date circulating in modern summaries appears in no source we could open and is treated as an error. The same volumes carry the full land-office register and receiver succession 1823–1843, the Barr & McCorkle townsite purchase, and the wealth leg's first accounts of the Ewing, Hood, Rockhill, Tipton and Taber fortunes.
Fed:
- The government leg (organization, land office), the land leg, the wealth leg, the Story of Fort Wayne section.