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Business Owners Roster — Lakeville
The unit of this roster is the name-to-firm linkage: one line per person per band, every firm that person holds in that band riding on the line. A name without a firm, or a firm without a name, does not enter — those stand in the completeness article, where the exclusions are auditable. Order within a band is chronological by the earliest dated evidence of the linkage. The roster counts 119 linkages, and its shape is the record's shape: a founding band on the Atlas, Chapman and Howard; a dense 1870–1889 band on the 1875 Atlas directory and the three 1880s Polk gazetteers; a thin 1890–1909 band on Howard and the Geyer narrative alone; a full 1910–1929 band on Polk 1916–17 and the January 1925 bank directors; an empty 1930–1949 band; a thin modern band held to public-record strength; and an Undated band for the lines the record will not date.
To 1869 — 16 Linkages
Samuel Huggart — farm operator, Section 29 (federal land purchase, La Porte land office, 11 September 1834, 80 acres, Cash Certificate No. 2986, patented 20 March 1837; founder of the Huggart Settlement, which farmed Section 29…
1870–1889 — 59 Linkages (I)
Alpheus O. Van Lieu [Van Liew in the Atlas; VanLiew / Van Leiw in Polk] — drug and hardware store, from 5 July 1871 (Chapman's sketch gives the date; Atlas: "Van Liew, A. O. — Druggist"; Polk, all three 1880s editions: hardware…
1870–1889 — 59 Linkages (II)
W. S. Clark — grocer (Polk, all three 1880s editions, unchanged). A candidate for Chapman's second country store at grocer strength only — not promoted.
1890–1909 — 8 Linkages
The band's thinness is the record's, not the sweep's: no Polk edition between the 1889 manufacturers' directory and 1916–17 was read for Lakeville in any pass, so this band rests on Howard (1907) and the Geyer narrative alone.…
1910–1929 — 21 Linkages
Alexander Moore — hardware and coal (Polk 1916–17). The Van Lieu hardware line's successor at directory strength; no carrier states a succession.
1930–1949 — 0 Linkages: the Empty Band
The band is empty, and the emptiness is the finding. No owner is named for Lakeville in any carrier reached for 1930–1949. The town's first bank was suspended finally on 21 February 1930 and failed insolvent in state-supervised liquidation; its officers at that date are unnamed in every carrier (the Eastburn opinion of 1935 records only that "the cashier of the bank testified," unnamed; the appellants were sureties on the depository bond, not bank owners). No Polk edition of the 1930s–1940s was read for Lakeville in any pass; the Lakeville Standard run is unread; the 1940 telephone-directory class that filled the sister town's corresponding band has no Lakeville counterpart in the record reached. The gap is named, with its settlers, in the completeness article and More Businesses.
1950–1989 — 6 Linkages
Robert "Bob" Newton — co-founder, Hoosier Racing Tire (1957, with Joyce Newton; re-treading street tires with softer compounds, sold to local racers); President and CEO (long-form company history; Rubber News 2004 styles him "CEO…
1990–Present — 3 Linkages (Public-Record Strength Only)
John DeSalle — Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing, Hoosier Racing Tire (promoted 2010; with the company since 1988, developing radial race tire technology) → President of Hoosier from October 2016, appointed when…
Undated — 6 Linkages
Jack — Jack's Tavern, a general store and also a post office (Geyer narrative in the 2011 town plan, narrative strength only ; undated; first name only — no surname is given by any carrier).
The Women Owners Sweep — Six Linkages, at True Return
Eastburn ); the Hoosier company and trade carriers; and the banked people files — read with women proprietors specifically in mind. The return is six linkages: (1) Frances C. Coquillard — platter, Coquillard's Addition, 1857; (2)…
The Black Owners Sweep — Named at Farm and Settlement Strength
Black owners were swept explicitly over the same files and carriers, including the directory occupation columns, the classified lists, the Chapman/Howard sketch registers, and the banked people files. The return, stated exactly…
Completeness — What Was Swept, What Remains, and the Detached Rows
Per-band counts: to 1869 — 16; 1870–1889 — 59; 1890–1909 — 8; 1910–1929 — 21; 1930–1949 — 0 ; 1950–1989 — 6; 1990–present — 3; Undated — 6. Total: 119 linkages. The founders-and-CEOs cross-check was run against the banked People…