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THE SWEEP AND ITS SOURCES · RUN NOVEMBER 2026
The method of this section is printed here so the sweep can be re-run. Three named sources were worked, in this order. First, Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907), vol. 1, ch. VIII §3 and the industrial sections §§8–9, with the vol. Second, R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1882–83, vol. II — the village listings swept in alphabetical course (Granger stands at page 303, between the entries for Gravelton's neighbours and Grant) and read whole. Third, the directories' small headings as they survive in the open record; the St. Joseph County Public Library's county-directory run itself is a physical collection, and its heading-by-heading sweep is named at this article's end as the re-run's remaining instrument, with the headings to be worked stated: groceries, lumber, undertakers and funeral directors, printers, ice dealers, coal dealers, laundries, blacksmiths, general stores, and the professional headings (physicians, attorneys, accountants, surveyors).
The 1882–83 Granger entry reads: "GRANGER. Is located at junction of C. & G. T. and C., W. & M. R'ys, in Harris township, St. Joseph county, 9 miles northeast of South Bend, the county seat. Nearest bank at Mishawaka. Grain and live stock are shipped. There is 1 Presbyterian church in the neighborhood. Tel., W. U. Franklin E. Lowry, postmaster. Lowry Franklin E, Grain, Lumber and Live Stock. Robinson F, R R agt." That is the whole of it: the station village's business roll in the first gazetteer that lists it is two names — Franklin E. Lowry, postmaster and dealer in grain, lumber and live stock, the storekeeper the gap asked for; and F. Robinson, the railroad agent. No blacksmith is listed. The gap asked for the village's named storekeepers and blacksmiths, and the settling source it named has now been pulled: it gives the storekeeper and records no blacksmith at this date — the smith the village would ordinarily have supported either worked unlisted, under a neighbouring place's entry, or not yet, and at gazetteer strength the finding prints as it stands. The contrast that proves the entry's smallness is in the same volume: Goodland's listing runs to some seventy names across every trade heading, Goshen's to hundreds. Granger's two-name roll is not a defect of the source; it is the size of the village, measured by the same instrument that measured the others.
Sources: Howard (1907), vol. 1, ch. VIII §3 and §§8–9, and vol. Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1882–83, vol. II, p. 303 (the Granger entry, quoted whole; the Goodland and Goshen listings in the same volume for scale). Banked Businesses (GAP-BIZ-5 and its named settlers — this article pulls the first of them).