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Named gap — settler current, November 2026; banked Businesses lk-biz-mills as the directory course
No Lakeville firm's founding shares or heir descent stands in any carrier reached, and the two successions the checklist names print here at directory strength with their settler named, so the gap is a measured one. What the directories show is continuity of names, not descent: Clenny & Eldred, the flour mill, stand through all three 1880s editions, and by the 1889 manufacturers' directory the mill bench has changed its names entirely — Lock and Lightfoot standing separate where a partnership stood before — with no carrier stating whether an heir, a buyer or a stranger took any share. Knepp & Houser stand under both Lakeville and North Liberty in the same editions, a double listing the build prints unmerged, and no probate or deed carrier reached traces the firm's interest from founder to heir in either town. The settling source is named and current: the deed and probate record of St. Joseph County for the Clenny and Eldred and the Knepp and Houser estates. Until it is read, founder-to-heir succession for every Lakeville firm stands as a named gap, and no descent is inferred from a surname's persistence.