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1875–1920 · 1875 Atlas, Union Township directory; Chapman (1880); Polk 1880–81, 1884–85, 1916–17
The carriers were canvassed for a brewer, a brewery, or a malt house in the town or township, across the whole span the directories cover. The 1875 Atlas's Union Township directory, read in full for this section, carries farmers, merchants, blacksmiths, a cooper — and no brewer. Chapman's village and township record names none. The three Polk editions name none. The atlas's only "Farmer and Brewer" entries in the county belong to Portage Township / South Bend men — county record, excluded here as boundary, printed so the negative's edge is visible: the county had brewers; the carriers place them in South Bend, not here. Result: no first brewer, and no brewer of any date, is proved for Lakeville or Union Township in the span 1836–1920 at directory strength. The negative's limits print with it: directories canvass the visible trade of their season, and a farm-scale or short-lived brewing operation could stand beneath their notice. Settlers: the Lakeville Standard run; the 1920s Polk gazetteers; the atlas page images.