Chapman's Colour Trades — Carried as Biography, No Shop Proved

1880

Each man below carries a trade as colour in a biographical sketch; Chapman proves no shop, stand, or Lakeville practice for any of them, and none is promoted to a firm. Nathan Cordray learned the tinner's trade in Ohio, then carpentry — the village's only tinner trace; no tin shop stands in any directory read. Edward Cordray was carpenter and teacher. Adam Snyder followed carpentry until a few years before 1880. Frederic Losch learned the cabinet-maker's trade, followed until Wisconsin; in Union Township, farming and carpentering. A. H. Jester followed the hatter's trade ten to twelve years as a young man, then farming. Aaron Reynolds was a miller by trade, living with his daughter; no mill is named. Andrew Huggart was a shoemaker by trade, farming since coming. Valentine Fisher was a blacksmith by trade, farming since coming. Moses Pimches carries "farming and blacksmithing" active at sketch strength — a township blacksmith beyond the village's three named smiths (Bachtall, Werntz Hiram, Werntz Isaac, Polk 1880–81); Chapman counts "three or four blacksmith shops" in the village passage while Polk names three village smiths, and Pimches at township class is a candidate explanation for the "or four" — printed as an observation, not a settlement. Daniel J. Fisher (p. 956), born 19 January 1824 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, settled on his Union Township farm in 1855 and "since coming here he has been carrying on a broom factory and farming," on a good farm of 235 acres, P.O. Lakeville — a real township manufacture, the sketches' one factory-form trade, carried at farm class, which is how the businesses leg's village frame missed it; C92's pair stands against the Atlas detached row (settled 1858), the three-year difference printed whole, not reconciled. A. W. Shidler built Coquillard's Mill in the summer of 1854, ran it some ten years, then farming and lumbering, a saw-mill on his farm until a few years before 1880. Alfred F. Stull carried milling and lumbering from 1858 (Sec. 19, P.O. South Bend — township class). The colour trades are the difference between the two readings of the same book.