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1857–1917 · Chapman; Howard, Vol. 2 sketches; Polk rosters
The village practice rests on two brothers. Dr. Robert Moore came to Lakeville after his marriage of 19 March 1857 and, in Howard's words, "for forty-two years he has actively engaged in the practice of medicine" (d. 11 May 1900; a charter member of Lakeville Lodge No. 353 in 1867 — Howard's sketch prints him there once as "Robert Moor," the form standing as printed). Dr. John Moore came at nineteen, studied medicine with his brother Robert, took a Cleveland medical course in 1860, and "began practice and continued for forty years" (d. 23 April 1904; master of the Lakeville lodge at his death). Chapman's bare caption — "John Moore, M.
The count does not settle, and it prints whole. Polk names four physicians in the town's 1880s entries: the two Moores, D. L. Moore (all three editions), and F. M. Sawyer (1880–81, 1882–83), replaced in 1884–85 by E. E. Fast. Chapman's census of the profession counts three — and names none of them. So the identification slot stays formally open: the Moores are the two best-placed names for Chapman's three, but no carrier equates any three of Polk's four with Chapman's count, and the build does not. D. L. Moore carries his own caution, registered whole: Howard's Robert Moore sketch lists a "D. L. Moore, of La Paz, Indiana" among Robert's children without the "Dr." styling it gives another son — the physician of the rosters and the son at La Paz are a name-match only. By 1916–17 the practice has passed out of the family entirely: How John T. and Wiseman Charles S. are the bench's physicians, Robert dead in 1900 and John in 1904 — successors in the village practice, printed as such. Settler for the count: the state medical register's Lakeville entries; the 1900 census occupation column for the village.
The attorneys test negative: no lawyer is listed for Lakeville in any roster read, in any edition — a village of its size ordinarily sent its law business to South Bend, and the record is consistent with that, but the build prints only the negative: no attorney stands in the town's carriers. The clergy stand in Churches & Religion, where LK-3 seated them, and are not duplicated here.