Goff's History of Harris Township (1980)

Germaine Goff, The History of Harris Township, 1980 — the township's own book; read in this build ONLY through a carrier, and printed as such

What it is: the one book this ground has of its own — a township history written from inside the township, standing behind a measurable share of everything the modern record says about old Harris: the stage stop and the Sorin and Fr. Granger Masses at the Adams Road brick house; the 1867 Sorin acquisition; the railroad era and "Granger Station"; the onetime Harris Township airport remembered in a single line. The want of it is not incidental. At least four of this build's named gaps name Goff as their settling source, and the Story of Granger section pass calls a first-hand read of it the single highest-value pull for the whole Granger build.

Its standing, from this build's experience: this build has never held the book. What it holds is Kenneth E. Lindsay's "Harris Township: History, and a Question" (Granger Gazette, August 2020) — the sitting township trustee's own account, expressly drawing on Goff — read in the Gazette's PDF as Harris Township republishes it, its OCR noisy and quoted sparingly. Every Goff-derived fact in this history therefore prints at one remove, attributed through the trustee's letter, and the remove is stated wherever the fact does load-bearing work. A tradition carried by that letter — Fr. Alexis Granger at the brick-house Masses — is printed as Goff's tradition through the trustee, and no record reached joins the man to the place-name.

Where it fails: it cannot be checked, and this build does not pretend otherwise. A fact that rests on Goff alone rests, for now, on a letter about Goff. The first-hand read stands in Part Six as the build's standing want, printed plainly, with the gaps that wait on it named in the harvest.

Sources:

1. Kenneth E. Lindsay, "Harris Township: History, and a Question," Granger Gazette, August 2020 — the carrier, read as republished by Harris Township.