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The 1875 directory: the township's occupational census

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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. Its legible head runs: A. H. Annis (Lakeville, Section 31, farmer, 1845); J. D. Annis (Bremen, Section 8, farmer and threshing machine); William Annis (Lakeville, Section 31, farmer and stock raiser); William Alexander (Section 19, steam saw mill, Canada, 1855); John Boyce (Lakeville, Section 35, retired, 1850 — the John Boyes who married Mary Lineback); G. H. Bunch (Section 25, farmer and stock raiser, Gates County, North Carolina, 1853). Its name-attached tail carries Isam Rector, A. J. Ream, the five steam-saw-milling Sloughs, A. W. Shidler, A. F. Stull, E. D. Thayer (boot and shoe manufacturer), Stephen A. Ulery, A. O. Van Liew the druggist, and Isaac H. Werntz the blacksmith. The data rows that survive detached establish the village's 1875 shape at Lakeville post office: a postmaster and merchant (Section 35, Stark County, Ohio, settled 1853); three physicians and surgeons (Sections 35 and 35, Wayne and Holmes counties, Ohio, settled 1857–1864); two further merchants; a saloon keeper (born in the county, 1843); a butcher and farmer; a boot and shoe manufacturer. The defect prints plainly, because it governs every use of this source: on pages 90–91 the digitized text separates the name column from the data columns for most rows, so those rows cannot be re-attached to names from the text carrier alone — any name-level use beyond what is quoted here requires the Atlas's page images, and that requirement stands's note as the settler. The directory also holds the plat's cartographic record: the Atlas's index enters "Lakeville, Plat of — 40", the 1875 printed plat, its text layer carrying no plat history.

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Source: The 1875 directory: the township's occupational census, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/more-people/1875-directory-the-township-s-occupational-census/