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1893 · ISL 977.201 E43p
The third book on the shelf stood untested through two passes; tested in this one, it carries Lakeville after all — two sketches, at biographical strength. Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana (Goodspeed Brothers, Chicago, 1893; 786 pages; filed by the State Library under Elkhart at 977.201 E43p) is biographical only — it carries no township narrative, so a Lakeville search of it is a name-and-place search through lives. The search, run over the transcription this build reads, returns: George H. Asire, whose parents came to the county in the fall of 1857 and "settled on a farm which they purchased near Lakeville, in Union township," the family later moving to Lakeville, where the father ran a blacksmith business; and C. W. Moon, "general merchant and grain dealer of Lakeville, Ind.," born in Union township 9 January 1845 — his father Eli Moon bought land in the township, retired to Lakeville in 1873, and died in 1874; C. W. opened a general store at Lakeville in 1869, ran it fifteen years, then taught in Union township. The verdict prints at the strength reached: Goodspeed is TESTED POSITIVE for Lakeville and Union biographical matter at transcription-search strength; no full hit-count run on the volume was performed, and no count is printed.