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People — Lakeville
Three books carry this town's people, and this section is built from their pages directly: Chapman's 1880 county history, whose Union Township chapter runs a settler roll and thirty-one personal sketches; Howard's 1907 history in two volumes, the second carrying a Lakeville biographical cluster of its own; and the 1875 Atlas, whose township references print the settlement's firsts with sections and dates. Where the books disagree — and they disagree on the first family, the first child's year, and the township's own organization date — the disagreement prints whole. The founders come first.
The founders, in the record's own classes
Before 1833 · 1833–1837
No chief is tied to this ground; the settler founders are named to the man — those are the record's two strengths, and both print.The settler founding, by contrast, is documented to the section and the season: a Michigan Road settlement beginning in the spring of 1833, its first election held in a tavern in April 1836 with thirty votes polled, its first school and church within the decade. The profiles that follow are the men the three works jointly put at the head of that settlement — Lineback, Henderson, the Rectors, Earl, the Moons and Hupp — each at the size the works give him, each conflict the works create printed in his own article or's register.
Elijah Lineback — the first family, in two tellings
1803–1839 (Chapman/Atlas) · d. 1837 (Howard Vol. 2)
The settlement's first household, and the works' deepest disagreement — printed whole, both sides. Chapman and the Atlas tell it one way. Elijah Lineback, born 1803, of German origin, came with his wife Elizabeth (née Little) and…
The 1833 cohort: Henderson, the Rectors, Gardner
Spring–fall 1833
The men who came with Lineback's year, at the size the works give them. John Henderson came with his family in 1833 — to Section 25 in Chapman, Section 26 in the Atlas, the conflict registered — and stands at the head of the…
William L. Earl — the tavern-keeper the town grew around
1832–1840 in the works
Detroit prospector, iron-works partner, licensed keeper — and the stand at the present site of Lakeville in 1836. The works jointly carry his course, each clause sourced. The Atlas: in June 1832 William L. Earl "came out…
The Moon brothers and Michael Hupp
1834–1836 arrivals
The walking settler, the treasurer, and the mill-and-addition man. James Moon (b. 6 March 1816, Wayne County, of English origin, a Quaker's grandson) first came to the county in 1834 from Warren County "walking all the way"…
The townsite's firsts, as the works state them — tested
G-SP-1 · the three works searched whole
No first house, no first store, no first townsite mill is stated by any of the three works — and the one first-mill sentence that exists is a township sentence. The search was express: Chapman read whole, Howard's Lakeville…
The officeholder lines, cross-carried
1836–1907 in the works · the seats to 2026 in the government file
The township's officers as the histories name them — the town's own seats stand whole in the government file. The civil line begins at Earl's tavern: April 1836, all the voters present, thirty votes polled, John Henderson and…
Andrew and Samuel Huggart — the profile
1834–1890 · whole course in the settlement's file
The brothers stand at profile size here; the Huggart Settlement's whole course is its own file's. Samuel Huggart (b. c. 1804, Virginia) made the settlement's founding act — a federal land purchase at the La Porte land office on…
The soldiers in the sketches
Civil War generation
The names the biographical stock itself carries — the wars course whole is the wars leg's. John R. Moon, the 29th Indiana, died in camp in Kentucky. Anderson Moon served two years in the 128th Indiana and died at Lakeville in…
Born here, known elsewhere — the pointer
To the famous-people file
Two men carry this ground's name out of it, and both stand whole in their own file. Dick Grove, born in Lakeville on 18 December 1927, the jazz arranger who founded his own school of music in Los Angeles; and Richard W. Mangus, born here 23 July 1930, Lakeville High School's class of 1948, thirty-two years in the Indiana House — with the men formed here or ended here, the claims tested and the registers found empty, all in the famous-people file. The people who stayed — the several hundred names the three works and the 1875 directory carry between them — are the long-tail file's, which is where this section's record continues.
The banked people file profiles the founders and cross-carries the township's officers from the county histories, but its town-officeholder article is a pointer into the government file. This addendum takes the officeholders as people — at the strength the public record itself prints their lives, and no stronger — and runs the checklist's remaining political test: whether this town ever sent one of its own to Congress or to a bench.
The presidents as people: what the record prints of the men and women in the chair
2011–2026 · SBOA schedules; the Gateway salary record; town minutes; the county's Area Plan roster
Five people have held Lakeville's presidency in the years the record reaches, and the record knows them almost entirely by their service — which is itself the finding this article prints. John Kuhn holds the chair in 2011, the…
To Congress or the bench from Lakeville: the succession test
Tested November 2026 · Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Indiana judicial rosters; the banked build's own political…
The test returns a genuine negative: no man or woman of Lakeville has sat in Congress, and no judge of any court reached is a Lakeville product — the town's one political profile stands a rung below, in the Statehouse. The…