The livery trade — three stables, two barns, one survivor, and the motor succession

1868 – 1921

How it was missed: a disappeared trade, carried in this build only where the animals file needed its endpoint. The local-animals pass established the arc's end — the livery headings of 1921 standing beside their motor successors — but the trade as a business, its houses and ground, belongs here, and the directories give it a cleaner arc than any other vanished trade in the file.

The course: the 1868 county directory carries Livery Stables with three houses: Badger Henry & Co.; Burt C. E. — the Burt name that returns in the 1889 ice line and the 1868 meat markets — and Wilklow F. Johnson's 1902–03 directory carries two: Myeski J. S., Livery Barns, at 113 W. 2d — a Polish name over a Mishawaka livery barn at the century's turn — and Wiiklow J. Z., livery, at 224 S. Main, the Wilklow name over a livery stable in both centuries, the spellings printed as each book gives them. The 1921 classified is the trade's last state and its transformation in a single page: under Livery and Boarding Stables stands one firm, McDowell Andrew T. — at 224 S. Main, the same address Wiiklow held in 1902, the ground keeping the trade after the name changed — while the book's other two livery headings, Livery — Automobile and Livery — Motor Car, both belong to a single firm, the Finch Auto Livery, 207 Lincoln Way W., the undertaker's motor arm. One horse stable left, at the old address, and the word "livery" itself already reassigned to the motor trade: the directory page is the exact moment of the succession, and after 1921 the horse heading does not stand in the books this build worked. The trade's earlier ground — where Badger's and Burt's stables stood, and the barns' sizes — the directories reached do not give, and it is not supplied.

Sources:

1. Business Directory of St. Joseph County (1868), the Mishawaka list — heading Livery Stables.
2. Johnson's Business & Professional Directory (1902–03), the Mishawaka Business Directory — "MYESKI J S, Livery Barns, 113 W 2d"; "Wiiklow J Z, livery, 224 S Main."
3. Polk's Mishawaka City Directory (1921), classified directory — headings Livery and Boarding Stables; Livery — Automobile; Livery — Motor Car.
4. Local-animals file of this build — the arc's endpoint as established there, cross-referenced; the trade's business course is this entry's.