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The canon. Bert J. Griswold, The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana: A Review of Two Centuries of Occupation of the Region about the Head of the Maumee River. Chicago: Robert O. Law Company, 1917. Two volumes. Volume I is the narrative: fifty chapters (pp. 17–586), followed by Mrs. Samuel R. Taylor's The Story of the Townships of Allen County (pp. 587–706) and a general index. Volume II is biographical — some 350–400 sketches of the city's prominent men, fronted by an index to 45 portraits. Read first-hand in full text at the Internet Archive (pictorialhistory00gris and a second copy, pictorialhistory01gris, for Volume I; pictorialhistory02gris for Volume II).
What it proved here: Griswold is the baseline every later Fort Wayne history quietly copies, so this record was audited against him chapter by chapter rather than assumed to contain him. The audit found no whole chapter missing from our record, and it named the holes precisely — the Underground Railroad chapter, the 1849 cholera chapter, the Regulators, the City Beautiful plans, the suffrage society of 1871 — each of which then became its own search. Where Griswold and the primary record part company, the record wins and the difference is printed.
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- The Story of Fort Wayne section, government, business, wars, folklore, people and crime legs; the Griswold diff audit itself.