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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", arrived with nine dollars, worked for John Rush on the Michigan road at fourteen dollars a month while Rush entered his land for him, worked summers here and wintered in Warren County, and "removed his family here in 1841" — the Atlas dates the brothers' arrival May 1834, on Sections 27, 28 and 34, against Chapman's fall-1834/spring-1835 sequence and different sections, the conflict registered whole. James served some nine or ten years each as township treasurer and trustee, held to the Methodist church, and lies behind half the township's institutions: the first school-house stood on the corner of his farm, and the Lakeville church's trustees of 1857 were John and James Moon, Hubbard Henderson, Martin Page and William Biglow. His brother John Moon (b. 1818) settled beside him — his son Anderson served two years in the 128th Indiana and died at Lakeville in 1872 — and Eli Moon took Section 27 "some years later" in Chapman, with the brothers in the Atlas. Michael Hupp (b. 24 July 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia; five years in Ohio, then Indiana) took Section 34 in 1836, stands in Chapman as a charter member of the Lakeville Masonic lodge of 1867, and in Howard's town section among the men who platted additions to Lakeville — Hupp, John Henderson, Stephen A. Ulery and Sarah E. Rush giving the town its growth beyond the original plat. Geyer's narrative remembers him as the man who "platted out much of Lakeville on the east side of town", the two tellings printed as they stand.