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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 below: the 1880–81 listing, which names exactly one trader, and the 1884–85 listing, which names eight — a saloon, a lumber firm, a grocer, a livery, a grain-and-general store, a feed mill, a grain-and-livestock partnership, and a druggist. No blacksmith is named for Granger in either listing — the village's smith, if it had one, remains unrecovered, and that residue of GAP-BIZ-5 stands as a named gap whose settler is the next gazetteer generation (Polk 1882–83 and 1890s village listings, and the county directories at the St. Joseph County Public Library). The 1884–85 listing also independently confirms the People leg's central village figure: Polk prints Franklin E. Lowry as postmaster and as proprietor of the grain and general store, exactly the mercantile course Howard's sketch gives him from 1883.