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Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, 2 vols., Lewis Publishing, 1907 — the build's most-worked book, and the source of its sharpest lesson
What it is: two volumes doing two different kinds of work. Volume 1 carries the narrative county — its chapter VIII, section 3, "Harris" (pp. 279–280), read first-hand in the Story of Granger section pass, is the township's set account: Jacob Harris and the named first settlers of 1830; Washington Township's canceled order of 4 May 1835; Harris Township formed 5 January 1836; the Clay detachments of 1840 and 1842; the 14-by-16 log schoolhouse and Robert Kennedy; the three churches to 1907; the Grand Trunk passage; Harris Township's 1900 population, 481 including the town of Granger. Volume 2 is the biographical record, read whole by the People pass — the Shimp, Lerner, Slaughterbeck, Griffith and Meyer sketches among them. Howard's temperance chapter serves the Food leg; his page 271 carries the county Grange frame (St. Joseph Valley Grange No. 584; Aaron Jones, master of the Indiana State Grange; Pomona Grange No. 31); pages 419 and 691 name the Rev. Alexis Granger, C.S.C.
THE LESSON, printed because this build learned it the hard way: Howard's Harris section and Howard's towns chapter carry different matter, and a search of one is not a search of the volume. The modern summary of this place — "founded in 1883, named for the Grangers," citing Howard at page 311 — was tested by this build's Spine against the Harris section, where no founding date and no naming story stand, and the Story of Granger section reported the citation unmatchable. The Stories pass then read the towns chapter at page strength (printed pp. 310–311, from the page images of historyofstjosep01howa): section 3, "GRANGER," states the founding of the town by Thomas J. Foster on 3 April 1883, an addition in September 1883, a population of 67 in 1900 — and the Grange commemoration in terms. The page-311 citation was correct. The full correction is told in Part Five; the apparatus registers the moral here: a county history is not one text but a shelf of sections written at different times for different purposes, and each must be read on its own ground.
Where it fails: against itself, twice, and both print whole. His Granger stands "on the east side of what is now the Big Four railroad" in fractional section 7, range four east (towns chapter), and on the Grand Trunk in surveyed range three east (Harris section); the railroads reconcile on the contemporary junction record, the range does not, and the unreconciled range stands in print with the plat books named as settler. And his two volumes divide on Henry E. Hain: volume 1 prints him among the 29th Indiana's officers with a promotions line; his volume 2 biography never mentions a commission. Neither volume is silently preferred; Terrell's roster is the named settler, and it stands un-reached in Part Six.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vols. 1–2 — the Harris section and the towns chapter read as stated; vol. 2's biographies read whole by the People pass.