The owners: an era-banded roster of every owner the record names, paired to the firm

To 1869 · 1870–89 · 1890–1909 · 1910–29 · 1930–49 · 1950–89 · 1990–present · undated

The apparatus, and its discipline: The banked leg names owners inside its firm articles and nowhere else. This roster gathers them in one place, banded by the era of the ownership the record documents, owner paired to firm, at the strength the record names each one — a founder, a partner, a president, and a family are not the same kind of naming, and the roster keeps the record's own word for each. It is compiled from the banked Businesses and People files, from the Chapman and Howard biographical record behind the People profiles, from the 1875 atlas patrons' directory roll carried there, and from the Polk's gazetteer roll dug for the first-forms entry above. A name the record gives only as a firm's is not promoted to an owner's; a man profiled as a farmer is entered as an owner only where the record ties him to a firm, a mill, a mutual, or a trade.

To 1869: Jacob Meyer — canal works, then the 460-acre farm holding; entered here as the era's landholder-farmer, no firm named. The settler generation's holdings otherwise stand as farms in the People file, owner paired to acreage there; no trading house, store, or shop on this ground is named for these years, which is the banked leg's documented opening absence.

1870–89: Franklin E. Lowry — grain and general store, Granger village (from 1883; gazetteer listing 1884–85), and with E. A. Metzger, Metzger & Lowry, grain and live stock. E. A. Metzger — feed mill, and the Metzger & Lowry partnership. Eldridge & Robbins — lumber, Granger village (partnership as the gazetteer prints it; neither partner's given name in the record reached). H. E. Hain — grocer, Granger village. Samuel Inks — livery, Granger village. C. H. Smith — druggist, Granger village. Joseph L. Krupp — blacksmith's trade, then the 440-acre farm (People file; the trade is his first form, the farm his holding). John M. Shimp — president of the St. Joseph County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and a director of it for eight years before the presidency (People file, from the county histories); the mutual is this era's firm-form on the ground, a farmer-run company with a Granger-ground president.

1890–1909: The 1875 patrons' directory roll, carried at line strength in the People file, names the township's subscribing farm holders of its year; they stand there, and this roster does not re-list acreage as firms. Susan Krupp stands in her own entry in the People file as a patron in her own name — the record's one woman entered as a principal of the subscription economy in these bands, printed here because the roster is where a reader looks for her. No new village firm is named for these years in the record reached; the station village's trade continues under the names of the band above, at the strength the gazetteer left them.

1910–29: William Hass, with George Bales — the 1921 purchase of the North Liberty lumberyard that Big C Lumber's own history takes as its beginning (the company's timeline also records the North Liberty Lumber and Coal Company's incorporation in 1904 and Hass's arrival in 1919; the partnership reincorporated in 1926, and Hass bought out Bales's interest circa 1935, which carries Bales's ownership into the next band's opening). The firm was not yet seated on Granger ground — the Granger seat is the headquarters and the 1972 truss plant of later bands — and the pairing is printed with that boundary, because the roster's firm is the one that came here.

1930–49: William Hass — Hass Wholesale, Hass Concrete, and Portage Realty in the diversification of 1935–45, and the four yards that took the Big C name in 1967 out of this era's holdings. Martin Tarnow, with Jane Tarnow — Martin's Super Markets, founded 1947 in South Bend in a first store of 800 square feet; the Granger seats are Store #16 and the Heritage Square store of the following bands, and the founding pair is entered at the founding.

1950–89: The Tarnow family — Martin's Super Markets, family-owned across Michiana for seventy-one years from 1947, the ownership form the banked leg prints for the whole span until the sales of the next band. Triangle Truss, at the current Granger site, 1972–76 — Big C Lumber's own timeline names the firm and its years; no individual owner is named for it in the record reached, and it is entered as a firm without a person rather than given one.

1990–present: Haji Tehrani — Drive & Shine, founded 1997 by the company profiles' dating, seated at 16915 Cleveland Road, Granger, and grown to more than twenty locations by July 2024, Tehrani named as owner in the company's 2024 expansion releases. Chris Gerard — Bare Hands Brewery, opened December 2011 at 12804 Sandy Court, a South Bend native's production brewery and taproom, still trading from the same court. The Macri family — Villa Macri and Toscana Park: Jerry Macri, the family's developer of the center in the Tribune's catalogue of its coverage (and owner, in the same catalogue, of City Plaza shopping center in Mishawaka); Gerard Macri, Villa Macri's executive chef in the restaurant's own listing; Macri's Deli trading inside the restaurant, serving, in the listing's words, for over forty years. John Phair — chief executive of the general partner of Gumwood HP Shopping Partners, L.P., the Holladay Properties entity that began Heritage Square about 2005; the center's course — foreclosure, the mall suit, the win — stands in the banked article. SpartanNash, then C&S Wholesale Grocers — Martin's under its second and third owners: the family chain sold to SpartanNash, the Granger Martin's stores closed with the chain's local course (the banked leg carries the Store #16 closing at 31 December 2018 in the grocery succession), and the SpartanNash-to-C&S transaction completed 22 September 2025, as the banked heading prints the chain: twice seated, under three owners. Anchor Construction LLC — headquartered 7121 Grape Road, Granger, founded 2006 by the profiles' account, part of Weaver Companies by its own site's statement; no individual founder is named in the record reached. Microsoft — the EKI campus purchaser of the St. Joseph's Farm ground (929 acres, $77.5 million in the Tribune's sequence, May–June 2024, the two datings printed unmerged in the banked leg), entered as the ground's largest owner-transaction, a corporation without a local proprietor. Venture Pilot — founded in Granger in 2021, ceased to exist in its directory's formula; no founder named in the record reached.

Undated: The Granger Business Association — the place's own business association, a nonprofit at P.O. Box 427, Granger, carrying scholarships, sponsorships, and grants; a collective owner-form rather than a proprietor, entered because it is the only business body the record seats in the place's own name, its officers unnamed in the record reached.

Sources:

1. Businesses (banked) — the firm articles whole: Big C Lumber's published timeline (Hass and Bales, 1921; the 1926 reincorporation; the circa-1935 buyout; the 1935–45 diversification; Triangle Truss at the Granger site, 1972–76); the grocery succession (Martin and Jane Tarnow, 1947; seventy-one family years; SpartanNash; C&S Wholesale, completed 22 September 2025); Heritage Square (Gumwood HP Shopping Partners, L.P.; John Phair); Toscana Park and Villa Macri; Firms of the ground (Drive & Shine and Haji Tehrani; Anchor Construction; Bare Hands Brewery and Chris Gerard; the Granger Business Association; Venture Pilot); the Microsoft EKI purchase course.
2. Notable People (banked), from Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907) and the 1875 patrons' directory — Joseph L. and Susan Krupp; John M. Shimp and the Farmers' Mutual presidency; Jacob Meyer; Franklin E. Lowry's village trade; the patrons' roll at line strength.
3. Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, 1884–85 — the village roll dug for this section: Lowry, Metzger, Eldridge & Robbins, Hain, Inks, Smith (see the first-forms entry).
4. South Bend Tribune catalogue of the Macri coverage, as searched November 2026 — Jerry Macri's Toscana Park development and City Plaza ownership, at catalogue strength; OpenTable listing for Villa Macri (Gerard Macri, executive chef; Macri's Deli over forty years).