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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 township's civil order: elected justice of the peace at the first election in April 1836, and named by the Atlas as both first justice of the peace and first postmaster of the township. No biographical sketch of him survives in any of the three works; the John Henderson who platted an addition to Lakeville in Howard's town section is not stated to be the same man, and is not assumed here. The three Rectors — John, Jacob and Mark — came on Section 1 in 1833. Jacob Rector sold the forty acres on which Earl's tavern, and so the townsite, stands, and was elected justice of the peace beside Henderson in 1836; Howard names him "grandfather of our Attorney J. D. Henderson". Mark Rector married Elijah Lineback's widow, earned his homestead "by working on the Michigan road at $5 per month" in Chapman's phrase, and died in March 1853; his son Isam Rector farms in the township in the 1875 directory. Of John Rector the works carry nothing further. John Gardner, on Section 3 in the Atlas and named in Howard's 1833 cohort, is absent from Chapman's settler roll altogether — the omission printed, not repaired. Hubbard Henderson, on Section 35 in 1834 in both Chapman and the Atlas, closes the founding household cluster: a member with his wife of the first Methodist society and a trustee of the Lakeville church building begun in 1857.