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The second country store (G-LK2-4, sharpened, stands). Chapman's second store of 1880 is unnamed in every carrier; the candidates stand at their strengths in Businesses (Moon at Atlas/Goodspeed strength without a Polk store listing; DuComb at fragment strength; Clark at grocer strength). Settlers: the 1870 federal census, Union Township schedules; the Lakeville Standard run; Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph County (2004), unread in any pass.
The Forrest Hotel's proprietor. The house is attested; its keeper's name is detached from his row in the 1875 Atlas's scrambled directory columns ("Proprietor of the Forrest Hotel — settled 1833"). Settler: the Atlas page images (Archive.org item, pp. 90–91); the Lakeville Standard
The 1875 saloon keeper's name. The trade is legible in the Atlas directory; the name is not recoverable from its text layer. Settler: the Atlas page images, Union directory pp. 84, 90–91.
The directory gap, 1890–1915 (the master gap of the cluster). No Polk edition between the 1889 manufacturers' directory and 1916–17 was read for Lakeville in any pass; the Rensberger, Moon and DuComb courses across those years, the 1890–1909 roster band's thinness, and the 1930–1949 band's emptiness all rest on it. Settler: the intervening Polk Indiana gazetteers (c. 1890, 1895, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912 editions) or the South Bend directories' Lakeville sections, read the same way.
Succession questions, each stated once: whether Moon's Cash Store (1916–17) is Charles W. Moon's own, a successor's, or a kinsman's; whether Reed's store succeeded Swezey's or was the second store all along; whether the 1889 "Alex Coquillard, saw mill" is the 1854 works, a successor, or a separate mill; the Van Lieu store's closing date; Christian H. Thorpe's hardware line, which stands at snippet strength; Gabrielle Motts and Jack's Tavern, which stand at narrative strength only, undated in Jack's case, surname unknown. Settlers: as above — the Standard run, the intervening gazetteers, Sheneman.
The trade negatives' settler. No barber and no harness maker stands in any Polk edition read (negative at directory strength); no hotel, motel or inn operates in the town in the November 2026 carriers (negative at listing strength). Settler for both: the Standard run and the 1920s–40s gazetteers.
The present-day storefront census. No carrier reached enumerates Lakeville's current storefronts beyond the firms named in Businesses's modern article. Settler: a current directory canvass of the town at the same strength the Polk benches give the past.