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People, the Long Tail — Lakeville
The people file profiles the founders. this section is the rest of the record's population: the settler roll whole, Chapman's thirty-one personal sketches at a line each, Howard's second-volume Lakeville cluster, the 1875 directory's occupational census, the named men behind the 1880 village census, and the lodge's charter roll — closing with the completeness pass itself, whose negatives print with its positives. A name appears here because a carrier read whole carries it; where a carrier's text is defective — and the 1875 directory's is, in a stated way — the defect prints instead of a guess.
The settler roll, whole
1833–1841 · Chapman, Howard, the Atlas
Every settler the three rolls name, in the order the ground received them. 1833: Elijah Lineback (Section 35, Chapman/Atlas); John Henderson (25 Chapman, 26 Atlas); John, Jacob and Mark Rector (Section 1); John Gardner (Section…
Chapman's thirty-one sketches, at a line each
Union chapter, pp. 953–964
The 1880 population of record — farmers, a broom-maker, a hatter, two Civil War households, and one woman with a sketch of her own. Samuel Annis (b. 1851 in the township), farming and lumbering, Section 5. John H. Bennett (b.…
Howard's second volume: the Lakeville cluster
Print pp. 1097–1115 and scattered
The biographical volume is not South Bend only — it carries the township's physician, miller, trustee, principal and oldest resident. Adam W. Shidler of Lakeville, the 1854 miller. Dr. John Moore of Lakeville (b. 1836…
The 1875 directory: the township's occupational census
Atlas, pp. 84, 90–91
Several hundred rows — and a carrier defect that decides what can be claimed from them. The Atlas's Union Township directory gives name, post office, section, business, nativity and year settled, across several hundred residents.…
The 1880 village census, named where Chapman names it
Chapman's summary, pp. 951–964
Two country stores, a drug and hardware store, a hotel, the shops and the mills — with the unnamed slots printed as unnamed. Chapman's summary counts the village's trades; his sketches name some of the men behind them, and this…
The lodge's charter roll, 1867
Chapman, p. 953
Ten charter members, named — the town's oldest surviving civic roll in the works. "In Lakeville there is a Masonic lodge. It was started in 1867 with the following charter members: Robert Moor, W. Clenny, John Cunningham, Mahlon…
The completeness pass: what was searched, and what is not here
The method, printed
A roster is only as honest as its stated limits — here they are. Searched whole for this section and the people file: Chapman's Union chapter including all thirty-one sketches; Howard's first volume (Union, Lakeville, hotels and…
Entered whole elsewhere: the consolidated pointer roll
The roll · refusals in one file, wholes in three
The refusals print with their reasons in the famous-people file; this roll gathers every pointer in one place. The refused set — persons tested for this build and refused, each with the reason printed at the refusal — stands…