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The Business Owners Roster
Granger never had a roster fragment: its owners were scattered across the build — in the Businesses leg's corridor nodes, the Food leg's tables, the People leg's settler roll, the Farms leg's 1875 patrons' directory, the Neighbourhoods leg's plat record, and nowhere at all for the station village whose storekeepers the Businesses leg carried as an open gap (GAP-BIZ-5). This addendum builds the roster the register asks for: every owner the record names, paired with their business, name-to-firm linkage as the unit, era-bucketed on the register's own scheme (to 1869; 1870–1889; 1890–1909; 1910–1929; 1930–1949; 1950–1989; 1990–present), with an explicit Undated bucket, an explicit women-and-Black-owners sweep, a printed founders cross-check, and a completeness statement. Entries are compact by design: name — firm — the date and strength the record gives. A firm whose owner the record never names is entered with that fact stated, because a roster that dropped unnamed-owner firms would silently shrink the business record; a person the record names only as an agent, manager or director is marked as such, never promoted to owner.
How the Business Owners Roster Was Built
Sweep run November 2026 · rows #1 and #4
GAP-BIZ-5 asked for the named storekeepers and blacksmiths of the Granger station village, and named its settler: the village listings of Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer. Both listings are printed whole in the 1870–1889 article…
Bucket 1 — To 1869: the farm owners, the Clay mill seats, and one institutional farm
1830–1869 · Harris and Clay townships
In this era the business of the ground is the farm, and the roster is the settler roll read as owners: Jacob Harris — farm on Harris Prairie, raiser of the township's first wheat crop, harvested 1831. David Baldwin and Josephus…
Bucket 2 — 1870–1889: the 1875 patrons, and the station village Polk names
1875–1885 · the directory evidence at full strength
The 1875 patrons' directory of the Illustrated Historical Atlas (Harris Township, p. 103) is this era's roster-within-the-roster: the farmers who paid to print their own lines — Jacob D. Byrer, farmer, Section 17, settled 1862…
Bucket 3 — 1890–1909: named farms, a creamery directorship, and the long farm century's last full sketches
1890–1909 · from Howard (1907) at sketch strength
Charley L. Slaughterbeck — the Idlewild Stock Farm, 320 acres in Sections 28 to 30 by 1907, the township's one named stock farm in the record, raising on the sketch's figures some 3,000 bushels of corn, 2,000 of oats and fifty…
Bucket 4 — 1910–1929: the lumber partnership that becomes Big C, and a chairman born on this ground
1910–1929 · boundary seats stated
William Hass, in partnership with George Bales — purchasers in 1921 of a lumberyard in North Liberty, on the company's own timeline the beginning of the Big C story; the partners reincorporated in 1926. The seat is North Liberty…
Bucket 5 — 1930–1949: a buyout, three diversifications, a credit union, and the Tarnows
1930–1949
William Hass, now alone — about 1935 he bought out George Bales's interest; the years 1935–1945 diversified the house into Hass Wholesale, Hass Concrete and Portage Realty, three Granger-bound names carried on the founder's own…
Bucket 6 — 1950–1989: developers first, then the corridor's first seats
1950–1989
Kenneth Zook, of Zook Realty of Elkhart — the subdivision era's first named hand: in 1954 he donated the five-acre St. Pius X site on Fir Road while planning 270 homes within the parish bounds. Dave Eckrich Sr., with Brian…
Bucket 7 — 1990–present: the corridor nodes, the firms of the ground, and the present state as of November 2026
1990–2026 · as of November 2026
The succession at the top of the grocery trade: Bob Bartels — Martin's president and chief executive from 1973, chairman from 2005, the founders' son-in-law, who joined in 1964; Rob Bartels — the founders' grandson, Martin's…
Bucket 7, continued — developers, institutions, and firms of the ground, 1990–present
1990–2026 · as of November 2026
John Phair, chief executive of Holladay Properties — developer of Heritage Square (from about 2005) through Gumwood HP Shopping Partners, L.P., a Holladay entity; the centre was surrendered by deed in lieu of foreclosure in…
Business Owners Named Without a Date
Undated · row #3
Jonas Harris — builder of the Section 23 Clay Township grist-mill that John F. Curly owned, idle, in 1880; the building date is not in the record reached. John Weaver — saw-mill, carding-machine and fulling-mill on the same…
Women owners
Row #6, first half · swept as its own pass, November 2026
This pass was run separately from the general sweep, against every source class the roster used, asking the women question directly. The yield, whole: Susan Krupp — produce and stock farm, Section 9, heading the 1875 atlas…
Black owners, with the searches shown
Row #6, second half · tested November 2026
Searches run: (1) every fragment and Run C addendum swept for this roster was read for Black owners — none named, for any era; (2) Polk's Granger village listings, 1880–81 and 1884–85, read whole — the gazetteer does not mark…
The founders cross-check: every founder named in the founders record, with their firm
The cross-check, printed whole. William Hass — Big C Lumber (Buckets 4–6) ✓. George Bales — Big C Lumber, founding partner (Bucket 4) ✓. Martin Tarnow — Martin's Super Markets (Bucket 5) ✓. Jane Tarnow — Martin's Super Markets…
Conflicts that touch the roster, printed whole
Conflicts are not normalised anywhere in this section
First, the station village itself. Chapman's Harris Township chapter (1880) closes the village's commerce in a sentence: at Granger station "there are a depot and postoffice… no business of any kind is done." Polk's gazetteer for…
Completeness statement: what was swept, what was sampled, and what remains unswept
Row #8 · stated plainly
Source classes swept: the Granger build itself — fourteen banked fragments read whole for this roster (businesses, people, farms, food, neighbourhoods, government, health, religion, arts-culture, awards, newspapers…