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1854–1889 · one succession traced; the general case left open by name
One ground in the township can be followed through successive industry, and it is followed here; the general succession article the floor wants remains open at its named gap, and both facts print. The traced case is Coquillard's mill ground: a mill built and run from the summer of 1854 to about 1864 by A. W. Shidler for Alexis Coquillard — the township's French name as proprietor, a hired builder as operator. Shidler then runs saw-milling on his own account into the 1880s, and the 1889 manufacturers' directory still lists an "Alex Coquillard, saw mill" at Lakeville — whether the same works under the proprietor's name a generation on, a successor on the same ground, or a separate mill, no carrier states, and the three readings print unmerged. Beside it stands the district's other succession in brief: the railroad grounds, where a joint depot-and-tower site passed from two working railroads to abandonment to nothing remaining, the trains file's own succession told at its file. The residue is the audit's own: mill sites themselves stand open at gap G-LK2-3, their settler the General Land Office tract books and Sheneman's southern-county work, and until a site is fixed to a section, no woolen-mill-becomes-rubber-works succession can honestly be written for this township. This item closes mixed — one succession traced at directory strength, the ground itself unfixed.