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1880 · ISL 977.201 S143
History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Chicago, 1880) is the earliest full narrative this township has, and the build's first resort for its nineteenth century. Its Union Township chapter (pp. 949–964, the Lakeville passage at p. 951) carries the settlement roll, the first school-house, the churches whole, the 1880 village census, and thirty-one personal sketches; its county matter carries the Michigan Road entry (p. 339) against which LK-1 plotted the road's entry into the county. The State Library files it at 977.201 S143, originals in closed stacks, with film LH10207 and a reprint at IND REF, and it is available online. What it is good for: the township as of 1880, named residents, congregations, lodges, and firsts, at first hand. What it is bad for: anything after 1880 — and, read through the transcription carrier this build uses (see the digitized-shelves article), exact dates and spellings until checked against page images. Its own extent is a small conflict of the shelf: the transcription carrier's header gives 986 pages; an Illinois genealogical-works list gives 971; both stand in the register, unmerged.