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The township's documented land wealth tops out at the improved-farm scale. The Coquillard name enters through trade and land — Coquillard's Mill on this ground (1854–c.1864) and Coquillard's Addition (platted 1857) — but the fortune itself is a South Bend fortune; the second generation's lands are sized in this build's wealth record by the 1916 Coquillard v. Coquillard partition appeals — $113,575 and $43,375 in controversy (assembly conform, DELTA-B-2); the Lakeville limb of the treaty-era fortune prints unsized. The largest documented holdings are Samuel Huggart's 80-acre federal purchase and Andrew Huggart's "80-acre well-improved farm"; William L. Earl's townsite tract was 40 acres. The one fortune-class enterprise headquartered here is Hoosier Racing Tire, and its exit prints as a conflict, whole: the Indianapolis Business Journal (2024) gives Continental AG's 2016 purchase at $140 million; the firm's reference article gives "a total nearing $155 million" (sale dated 4 October 2016). Both are company sale prices, not personal estates; neither carrier is preferred; the settler is Continental's 2016 transaction reporting. No published estate or net-worth figure for Robert or Joyce Newton was found in any carrier reached (settler: county probate). The richest-man test was run explicitly: no carrier styles any Lakeville or Union Township resident "richest" in any class, in any era — the claim does not exist to be tested. No foundation or endowment arising from a Lakeville fortune was found; no great house carries a building cost or a fortune's seat. The leg prints those negatives at the size searched.