The Gazetteer Rosters — 1880–81, 1882–83, 1884–85, 1916–17, Read Whole

Polk's Indiana Gazetteer, four editions, Lakeville entries (pp. 457, 485, 435–436, 776) read first-hand; owners in Business Owners Directory

1880–81 (header: "a place of some 150 inhabitants, located 10 miles south of South Bend… daily stage route to South Bend — fare 50c — and Plymouth — fare 75c"; C. J. Swezey, postmaster). The town's first full trade roster: Swezey Cy, general store; Clark W. S., grocer; VanLiew A. O., hardware and drugs; Clenny & Eldred, flour mill; Hildebrand & Co., Knepp & Houser and Shideler A. W., saw mills; Bachtall David, Werntz Hiram and Werntz Isaac, blacksmiths; Perry E., wagonmaker; Thayer Elisha and Kron Jacob, shoemakers; Shirk Rudy, hotel; Brewer John, meat market; Glassour Charles, saloon (Wineries & Distilleries prints the saloon record whole); Robertson W. H., undertaker and justice; and four physicians — Moore Robert, Moore John, Moore D. L. and Sawyer F. M. (the professional article carries the count question).

1882–83 (header: "La Paz, distant 4 miles on B. & O. R. R., is the nearest rail approach. Wood, lumber and grain are marketed"; John Hupp, postmaster). The changes print as the edition gives them: Swezey, Brewer, Glassour and Shirk gone; Cordary Henry, hotel; Reed & Shaneover, General Store; Walters George, saloon; and Hupp John's millinery and fancy goods new — the rest of the bench standing as before. 1884–85 ("Inhabited by 175 persons"): Hildebrand & Co and Shideler gone from the mills; Lock & Lightfoot, saw mill arrived; Sawyer replaced by Fast E. E., physician; Cordary replaced by Deed George, hotel and livery — the first keeper in the record to pair the house with a stable; Reed & Shaneover reduced to Reed John, General Store; Drysinger Adam, meat market, and Graphard L., shoemaker, new; Hupp's line expanded to "Millinery and Fancy Goods and Agricultural Implements" — the implement trade standing in the same shop as the fancy goods. One firm in these volumes carries a name across this build's town lines: Knepp & Houser stand under both Lakeville and North Liberty in the same editions — both listings print, unmerged (the mills article carries the pair).

1916–17 (header: "On the Vandalia and Wabash Railroads… Has Christian and Methodist churches, a bank and a newspaper"; F. M. Barkley, postmaster). The last full roster the record gives is also the largest store bench of any edition: four general stores and a grocer — DuComb P. P. & Son; Ducy Wm. M. (general store and coal); Moon's Cash Store ("genl store and farm implts" — the 1869 Moon name in its late form, the succession unstated, first-store article); Rensberger Bros; Smith Thomas B., grocer. With them: Kramer & Wolf, grain elevator — the town's first and only elevator listing in the editions read (Exports carries the handlers); Producers Union Dairy Co. — the township's one directory-strength dairy fact (Farms & Crops prints the dairy finding whole); Lakeville Lumber Co.; Moore Alexander, hardware and coal; Skiles A. C. & B. C., furniture and undertakers; Annis Bros, restaurant and confectionery — the village's first restaurant listing; Smith C. H., cigars; Garrett P. D., livery, with Bailey W. M. in the same volume's classified livery list (two names, printed as two — Dealerships); Kloppenstein O. H., garage (Dealerships carries the auto census); How John T. and Wiseman Charles S., physicians; the Lakeville Standard itself, listed as the town's weekly (its lineage stands in Sources); and the bank line — "UNION BANK (Capital $10,000), J. U. Walter, Pres.; Rollin Steele, Cashr." — a third name-form standing against the town's bank record, whose identity question Banks prints whole (the same house under another name, a predecessor, or a separate house: unresolved). What the 1916–17 bench no longer lists is its own datum: no hotel, blacksmith, wagonmaker, shoemaker, saloon, mill of any kind, or meat market — the horse-age trades gone from print a generation before they can have gone from the ground; one entry in that absence is corrected in this build's business-gaps record: the 1916–17 classified list does carry a shoemaker at Lakeville, at scramble strength (assembly conform, DELTA-LK7-3).