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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 and adjoining ground into the 1890s). Rostered as a farm operator; the Black-owners sweep carries the settlement's identification.
William L. Earl — Earl's Tavern (license, September term 1836, on a 40-acre tract bought of Jacob Rector; the township's first election was held there in April 1836) and Earl & Gilmore, steam saw mill, 1849 (the Atlas's township first-mill sentence; the mill's site unstated — G-LK2-3). His St. Joseph Iron Works partnership with Alanson M. Hurd is Mishawaka ground, a boundary note on this line.
Gilmore — partner, Earl & Gilmore, steam saw mill, 1849 (surname only; identity unstated in any carrier reached).
Gentry A. Heston — wagon-maker; a repair shop on his farm one mile south of Lakeville from the family's arrival c. 1838 (Howard, Vol. 2). Township class. His father's earlier saw-and-grist mill four miles from Niles, Michigan, is out-of-ground, pointer only.
Alexis Coquillard — Coquillard's Mill (built and run by A. W. Shidler from summer 1854). The 1889 manufacturers' directory's "Alex Coquillard, saw mill" rides on this line; no carrier states whether it is the same works, a successor, or a separate mill.
Alexis T. Coquillard — platter, Coquillard's Addition to Lakeville (platted 18 August 1857, with Alexis and Frances C. Coquillard; the addition on record before the original plat of 23 December 1859). Land-development linkage.
Alexis Coquillard (the nephew) — platter, Coquillard's Addition, 18 August 1857. Name collision, printed whole: this Alexis and the mill owner above share a name; the carriers distinguish them only as son/nephew/widow of the elder Alexis, and they are not merged.
Frances C. Coquillard — platter, Coquillard's Addition, 18 August 1857 (the elder Alexis's widow). Land-development linkage; a woman owner, carried in the women sweep.
Bass, Boone & Manuel households — settlement farm households, Section 29 and adjoining ground, c. 1850 into the 1890s (the households beside the Huggarts in the settlement; one combined line at household strength — no individual first names are given in the readable carriers).
Andrew Huggart — farm operator, 80-acre well-improved farm, Section 29 (Chapman sketch; came to the county 1850; married Jane Clark 3 July 1839; d. 30 September 1881); shoemaker by trade, farming since coming to the county — the trade rides on the farm line, not as a separate shop. His obituary tradition calls him "the first colored man to run for office in this county" (office unnamed by any carrier) — carried in the Black-owners sweep, not as a business linkage.
Newton Jackson — saw mill (Howard, Vol. 2: operated "one of the first saw mills in the county" at Lakeville in the early 1850s). Conflict, printed whole: the businesses lane keeps Jackson at county class only — Goodspeed (1893) sketches him as a wholesale lumber dealer of South Bend, his father saw-milling "about fourteen miles west of South Bend," with nothing placing Newton or his father's milling at Lakeville. The Howard claim and the Goodspeed placement stand side by side; this line is carried at Howard's strength with the conflict on it.
A. W. Shidler [Shiddler in Chapman; Shideler in Polk] — builder and operator, Coquillard's Mill, summer 1854 to c. 1864; then a saw-mill on his own account (Atlas 1875: "Farming and Steam Saw Mill," Section 26; Polk 1880–81 and 1882–83: "Shideler A W, saw mill"; gone by 1884–85).
Aaron Reynolds — miller (came 1850; father-in-law of A. H. Jester; the mill itself unnamed by any carrier).
Adam Shidler — saw mill near Lakeville, operated 1861 (Howard, Vol. 2: Fogle hauled lumber from the mill to South Bend for one year). Not merged with A. W. Shidler: no carrier equates them.
P. P. DuComb — mercantile business in Lakeville, c. 1864–65 (Atlas biography, fragment strength — badly interleaved text). The firm's later form, "DuComb P P & Son, genl store" (Polk 1916–17), rides on this line; continuity across 1865–1916 is claimed by no carrier.
Charles W. Moon — merchant, from 1869 (Atlas biography; Goodspeed (1893): "general merchant and grain dealer of Lakeville"). Polk's 1880s editions list him only as justice of the peace, never as a store. The 1916–17 "Moon's Cash Store" is not merged onto this line — whether it is his own, a successor's, or a kinsman's is unstated.