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Pioneer period – died in about his fiftieth year
The tie, exactly: a Harris Township pioneer farmer at family strength. Chapman's Clay Township sketch of his son states that the family "first located in Harris township, where they lived till 1865," then removed to Section 30 of Clay, post office Notre Dame; Howard's sketch of the same son says the father came to Harris "in pioneer times" and died in about his fiftieth year. His wife was Mary M. (Talley) Chirhart.
The boundary, printed: the son the sketches exist for, Ed S. Chirhart, was a South Bend lumber manager, reared near Notre Dame — a South Bend figure, carried in that city's build, not absorbed here because his father's farm stood on this ground. The father stands; the son is a cross-reference. That is the seat test running in its ordinary, unglamorous direction, and the file runs it the same way on pioneers as on senators.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Clay Township biographical sketches — the Chirhart sketch, for the Harris years to 1865.
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Chirhart sketch, for the father's pioneer coming and death.