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Banked Black History lk-huggart-settlement and lk-huggart-obituaries, read as a dispersal course
The sales: between 1885 and 1893 the settlement's ground left the founding families' hands, the last of the founding deeds being the heirs' sale of the original eighty acres on 23 September 1893, to Lars and Nicoline Andreasen, a Norwegian immigrant couple — the settlement's ground passing to the county's next newcomer wave. The sons: Wesley Huggart, Andrew's son, moved to South Bend about 1890, and by the 1900 census all three of Andrew's sons stood in the city at the trades the banked file names — Wesley a toolmaker at the Birdsell Manufacturing Company, James a labourer, Samuel a teamster — the farm settlement's second generation absorbed into the industrial city's wage work inside a decade. The colour-line limb the checklist asks to test at the destination's gate — whether Birdsell's shops observed one — stands unreached: no Birdsell employment record, payroll or hiring account was reached, and the question is named as the residue rather than answered from the fact of Wesley's hiring alone. What the course proves is the direction and the mechanism: land sold out from 1885, sons gone by 1900, and a settlement of some thirty souls at its peak become, within a generation, a South Bend working family — the dispersal complete before the new century was five years old.