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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 hogs a year. John Lerner — Maple Front Farm, 120 acres in Harris and Penn plus 83 more in Penn, dairying his specialty for thirteen years, and an original stockholder and director of the Osceola creamery: a Granger farmer inside a creamery's ownership, the farm century's cooperative form. John W. Griffith — Sunny Banks Farm, 103 acres, 83 of them in Harris Section 10, farmed from after his four years' cavalry service. John A. Zaehnle — farmer of Section 22, working his father Arbogast's farm and his own adjoining acres into this century, the second generation still on the 1834 ground. The bucket is thin because the record is: no village directory listing for Granger in these decades was reached (the 1916–17 gazetteer listing was searched and not retrieved — see the completeness article), and Howard's 1907 history, this bucket's main source, profiles farmers, not shopkeepers. The village trade Lowry built in the 1880s presumably continued; the record reached does not name its keepers in these years, and the roster prints the silence rather than filling it.