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Banked gazetteer rosters 1880–85 read as endings; court record unreached
The founder-who-lost-his-company test returns, for Lakeville, two endings without a loss proved — and the article prints the distinction, because an ending the directories record is not yet a failure a court recorded. C. J. Swezey — Charles J. Swezey, general store, postmaster in 1880–81, formerly postmaster and trustee in the histories' line — stands in the 1880–81 bench with the town's first full trade roster and is gone by 1882–83, his store replaced in print by Reed & Shaneover's. A. O. Van Lieu — Alpheus O. Van Lieu, hardware and drugs, trustee 1876–1880 — stands in the same first bench and likewise vanishes from the rosters that follow. In both cases the directory record proves an ending and dates it between editions; it does not prove a loss — no assignment, no sheriff's sale, no court record of either ending was reached, and men also retire, sell and die. The two endings therefore print as endings, stated as the checklist allows: the loss form tested, the loss itself unproved, with the directory run's continuation and the county court record named as the settlers that could prove it.