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Arrived 1830 (Adam) · 1833 or 1834 (David's household)
The tie, exactly: settlers in two parties. Adam Ringle came in 1830 with the first party, on both histories, and settled Section 15; he died before Chapman wrote in 1880. David Ringle came later — 1833 or 1834, on Chapman's dating — with his sons Samuel and Levi, and the household's cabins rose on Section 14.
The second generation, at directory strength: Levi Ringle is still on the ground forty years on, standing in the 1875 atlas patrons' directory in his own name: Section 22, a produce farmer, a native of Stark County, Ohio, settled in the county in 1833 — the directory's year matching the family arrival Chapman gives. A settler's son holding a directory line in 1875, on a section adjoining his father's first ground, is what the second generation of Harris Prairie mostly looks like in the record, and the file prints him at exactly that strength rather than inflating the line into a biography the sources do not contain.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), ch. V, §3 — Adam Ringle in the 1830 party; David and his sons in the early roll.
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township chapter — Adam on Section 15, deceased by 1880; David's household 1833 or 1834, cabins on Section 14.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Higgins, Belden & Co., 1875), Harris Township patrons' directory, p. 103 — Levi Ringle, Section 22, Stark County, Ohio, settled 1833.