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Chas. C. Chapman & Co. (1880); Howard (1907), Vols. 1–2; Goodspeed Brothers (1893) — holdings at the Indiana State Library (977.201 S143 / S143h; 977.201 E43p), originals in closed stacks
Chapman (1880) is the shelf's foundation for this town: its Clay Township chapter (pp. 676–682) was read whole in Pass IV-2 from the Archive.org page-image text — the villages sentence, the cemeteries and church passages, the township's organisation and first schools, and all eleven closing biographies — discharging the transcription caveat for that chapter, and its "First Entries of Land" (pp. 338–339) fixed the county's market opening (spring 1830; first entries 19 April 1830, in Range 3 East). Its traps ride with it: the range ambiguity of conflict C9, and OCR name garbles even in the page-image text layer, flagged wherever they occur and never cleaned. For any other Chapman chapter, quotations the frame pass took still carry the transcription caveat. Howard (1907) is two different books for this build. Volume 2 was read first-hand in IV-2 — searched whole and quoted at p. 1070 for the Eaton sketch — and its subscription biographies are strong for what a family told the publisher, not for land title; the build's conflict C8 (Isaac Eaton's death year) originates between its pages and Chapman's. Volume 1 remains the build's single largest unverified quotation class, and its own article follows. Goodspeed (1893)269–270), its subject married to Elizabeth Barnes in 1846, his children including Edwin D. of Howard's sketch, trustee of Clay Township for sixteen years and county commissioner for seven, one of five families in the township when the Eatons located along the river. It names no section and no town — the town did not exist as a named place in 1893 on any carrier this build has reached — and it enters the people record as corroboration of the family's standing, at transcription strength with its carrier's AI-generation caveat attached, not as a land source.