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G-LD-6 closed at page strength; C20 closed
The Atlas is Higgins, Belden & Co.'s — and its pages close two of the framing pass's open characters. The carrier's identity is corrected first, from its own title page, read first-hand: An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana, "Compiled Drawn & Published from Personal Examinations & Surveys by Higgins Belden & Co.," Chicago, 1875. The town list (p. 10) closes conflict C20 at page strength: entry VI reads plainly, "LAKEVILLE was laid out previous to 1859, and is located on sections 34, 35, R. 2, E. T. 36 N. in Union township. Present population about 400" — the year's third character a clear 5, the numeral a clear 36, on a page whose genuine T. 37 entries (South Bend, Osceola) are the northern-tier towns, so the list is internally consistent and Lakeville's 36 is no repeated misprint. The Union Township map (pp. 62–63) draws the townsite astride the 34/35 section line, and its printed footnote, transcribed whole from a crop read, carries the settlement texture the plat course stands on: "John Henderson settled on Section 26, in 1833; Elijah Lineback on Section 35; John Gardner on Section 3, the same year; John, Jacob, and Mark Rector on Section 1, before 1834; Hubbard Henderson on Section 35, in 1834; James, John, and Eli Moon on Sections 27, 28, and 34, May, 1834; … Michael Hupp on Section 34, in 1836; … The first election was held at Earl's Tavern, in 1836, only 30 votes polled. First Justice of Peace was John Henderson, the first saw mill was built by Earl & Gilmore, in 1849, run by steam; the first Postmaster, John Henderson; the first school-house was made of split logs, on Moon's farm; the first church, Methodist Episcopal, north of Lakeville, one mile… First child born was George Lineback, November 9, 1834." Three of those sentences do register work: the first election at Earl's Tavern in 1836 with 30 votes corroborates Chapman's limb of the township-organization conflict at an independent carrier; the Earl & Gilmore mill of 1849 corroborates the township-class first-mill sentence the deep-history pass carried; and "the first Postmaster, John Henderson" settles the first-postmaster limb of the post office gap at Atlas strength — the line's later course (Swezey by 1880–81; DuComb in this same Atlas's directory) standing in the sources and economy files. The directory (pp. 84, 90–91) prints the town's 1875 officers as patrons' entries — P. P. DuComb, Section 35, "Postmaster and Merchant"; Henry Crocker, Section 35, "Mason and Town Constable"; Wm. H. Robertson, Section 32, "Farmer, Undertaker, and Justice of the Peace" — and carries one internal variance, printed whole and not reconciled: its entry "Hupp, M." places him in Section 35, settled 1836, where the map footnote places Michael Hupp on Section 34 in the same year; the same book, two pages, both printed. The Atlas's county lists add context that is printed as context and not as attribution: the Recorder in office when the original plat was recorded was, on its p. 10 list, R. J. Chestnutwood (1858–1867), and the county surveyor across 1857–1859 was Milton W. Stokes (1856–1864) — tenure entries only; no carrier reached names Stokes, or anyone, as the Lakeville plat's surveyor.