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1875–1917 · Chapman (1880); Polk 1880–81, 1884–85, 1916–17; 1875 Atlas
Chapman's village record gives the horse age its trades in a phrase: "three or four blacksmith shops" and a couple of shoe shops. The rosters name them. Polk 1880–81: Bachtall David, blacksmith; Werntz Hiram, blacksmith; Werntz Isaac, blacksmith; Perry E., wagonmaker; no harness shop and no livery is named in this entry. Polk 1884–85: Deed George, hotel and livery — the livery enters the town's print with its hotel; Perry again, wagonmaker; Hupp John, millinery and fancy goods and agricultural implements — the implement trade standing in the same shop as the fancy goods; Bachtall and both Werntzes again. The 1875 Atlas's Union directory (at list strength; its columns OCR-scrambled) carries blacksmith entries including one at Lakeville in section 1 — settled in the county 1852, from Chautauqua County, New York — and a cooper ("Farmer and Cooper," Lakeville P.O.). And in 1916–17, deep in the auto age, the horse trade is still standing in print: Garrett P. D., livery, in the town entry, and "Bailey W. M., Lakeville" in the same volume's classified Livery, Sale, Etc. list. Two livery names from two parts of one gazetteer: both are printed; they are not merged into one house, and no carrier reached says whether they were rivals, successors, or a canvass duplication. The same 1916–17 entry carries Moon's Cash Store, "genl farm implts store" — implements gone general-store by then, the implement line's last directory form.