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The 1880 village census, named where Chapman names it

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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 article keeps the two apart. Named: Charles J. Sweezey, who "came to Lakeville in 1875, and engaged in the mercantile business; he has a large country store and is doing a good business" — one of the two country stores, its keeper also postmaster formerly and trustee in 1880. Alpheus O. VanLieu, in "the drug business in Lakeville" from 5 July 1871, "now doing a good business in drugs and hardware" — the drug and hardware store. The physicians: Chapman counts "three M. D's" and names one — "John Moore, M. D., Lakeville, Ind." stands as a sketch heading with no body text in the copy read, its full course in Howard's second volume (the forty-year practice, the lodge mastership); his brother Robert, with whom John studied medicine at Lakeville, is a candidate for one of the other two and is not merged into the slot. The blacksmiths named are Valentine Fisher and Moses Pimches, both farming alongside the trade, with the directory's Isaac H. Werntz beside them; the shoe-shop class carries the directory's E. D. Thayer. The mill men named — Shidler at Coquillard's Mill from 1854, Stull in milling and lumbering from 1858 — are not tied by Chapman to the village's own saw-mill and grist-mill by name. Printed as the gaps they are: the second country store's keeper is not named by Chapman; the hotel keeper is not named by Chapman (the directory's "Proprietor of the Forrest Hotel" row survives with its name lost in the column split described above); and two of the three physicians stand unnamed in the works. The pastors of 1880 print with the census: Mr.

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Source: The 1880 village census, named where Chapman names it, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/more-people/1880-village-census-named-where-chapman-names-it/