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Memoir and sketch. Hugh McCulloch, Men and Measures of Half a Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888) — the Fort Wayne banker who became Lincoln's Treasury Secretary, remembering the town he arrived in in 1833. Jacob Dawson, Charcoal Sketches (1872; reprinted by the Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society, 1959; open at the Internet Archive) — character sketches of the canal-era town by a man who drew them from life. Margaret Comparet, Reminiscences (1906). Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio (1847; enlarged 1891) — the travelling historian's Fort Wayne, drawn while the canal town was still standing.
What it proved here: these are the texture sources — what the town felt like to the people whose names fill the rosters — and the record uses them for exactly that and no more: a recollection is printed as a recollection, with its author's name and date attached, never laundered into a fact.
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- The people and spine legs.