Working Women — the Roster's Six, Classed

The business-owners roster owns them whole; the class is this branch's

Land, one farm, one bank directorship, one farm-and-trade, and the anchor firm. The record carries six: Frances C. Coquillard, platter of Coquillard's Addition, 18 August 1857; Ruth Brock (b. 1802), farm operator across Liberty and Union Townships — the only woman with her own sketch among the thirty-one in Chapman's carried set; Sarah E. Rush, platter of a Lakeville addition, undated in Howard; Lulu C. Rush, director of the Lakeville State Bank, January 1925; Jeanne Geyer, farmer of 272 acres by Riddle's Lake and keeper of a reupholstering business for fifty years; Joyce Newton, co-founder of Hoosier Racing Tire in 1957, its president/CEO at the 2016 sale. No woman appears in manufacturing, milling, hotel-keeping, store-keeping, or the saloon trade on any carrier reached — and the town's one milliner of record is a man, John Hupp. Two record-near names are not counted, with reasons printed: Gabrielle Motts (the carrier states no gender) and Elizabeth Rowe, the Central State Bank's teller (named, below officer rank). Beyond the counted two, the farm-women record stands as the long-tail file states it whole: no woman holds a Chapman sketch but Ruth Brock, and the stock otherwise names women inside their husbands' and fathers' sketches — Elizabeth Little Lineback Rector, whose own telling Chapman quotes, the standing exception.