The rest of the 1889 roster — felting, furniture, organs, wagons

1889, as the manufacturers' directory prints the town

The full page: Beyond the houses that hold their own entries, the 1889 Directory of Indiana Manufacturers gives Mishawaka, population 3,200, on the Chicago & Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, this manufacturing roster: the Beatty Felting Company; the Keasey Pulley Company — a second pulley maker in the town Dodge was making a pulley capital; the Mishawaka Factory Company; the Roper Furniture Company and the St. Joe Valley Furniture Company; the South Bend Wagon Company, listed by the directory under Mishawaka and printed here as the directory lists it; Louis VanDinter, manufacturer of organs; Jacob K. Bechler's saw mill and Rogers & Parett's saw mill; L. K. Robinson, cooper; John L. Dayhuff, wells and pumps; and Silas R. Burt, ice and steam wood saw. A. & J. H. Eberhart & Co., millers, stands on the same page — the Eberhart flour milling whose ground and firm belong to the Ball Band file's record — and the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company and the Perkins Windmill and Axe Company complete it, each in its own place in this build.

What a directory page proves: A roster like this is a census of a moment, not a set of biographies: it proves each house existed and traded in 1889, and for most of them the record reached carries nothing further that could be verified. They are printed at the size the directory gives them — a felting works, two furniture factories, an organ maker, a wagon works, in a town of 3,200 — because that is itself the fact worth keeping: the depth of small manufacturing under the famous names. The settling sources for any one of them are the city directories that followed and De Kever's city history, and the roster stands here as the baseline those digs will work from.

Sources:

1. Directory of Indiana Manufacturers and Buyers' Guide (1889), the Mishawaka page, as transcribed by Genealogy Trails — the full roster as printed above, with the town's population given as 3,200 and its railroads as the Chicago & Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.