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The pre-modern line: justices of 1836, a constable unnamed, and a marshal line from 2012

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Banked this history lk-civ-servants, the 1875 Atlas block, and this history, read as one line

Lakeville's peace officers run in three fragments separated by silences, and this article prints the fragments and the silences at their sizes, refusing to draw a succession line through years no carrier covers. The first fragment is 1836: John Henderson, the township's first justice of the peace and its first postmaster; Jacob Rector, justice beside him — the whole judicial and police establishment of the founding year, two justices elected at Earl's tavern. The second fragment is the Atlas's: among the 1875 Atlas's name-detached township rows stands "Mason and Town Constable (Erie Co. Ohio, 1850, Sec. 35)" — a constable of the town existed in 1875 and his trade string survived, and his name did not survive attached to it; the build prints the row detached, and no attachment is made here, the attachment being exactly what the record lost. The third fragment is modern: the town marshal's line stands solid only from 2012, Patrick J. Howard the sole holder on the Gateway salary record in the banked refresh file, no predecessor reached, the town minutes the named settler for every marshal before him. Between 1836 and 2012 the office-holders of the peace — the justices after Henderson, the constables after the Atlas's unnamed man, the marshals before Howard — stand in no carrier reached as a succession; the Standard's run and the court records are their settlers, named in this lane's accounting, and the line prints as three points and two silences.

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Source: The pre-modern line: justices of 1836, a constable unnamed, and a marshal line from 2012, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/public-servants/pre-modern-line-justices-of-1836-a-constable-unnamed/