Businesses & Banks: Firms Not Found in the Record

The open ends, named, with the record class that would settle each

The discipline of this article: a completeness claim is only as good as its empties. Every item below was looked for, in the records the entries cite, and not found; each is named with the record class that would settle it, so a later pass works against records and not against this section.

The bank layer's open ends: the courses of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank and the North Side Trust & Savings Bank — foundings, officers, ends — are not in anything reached; the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions' records and the bank headings of the 1920s directories would settle both. Clark & Whitson's end, and any absorption of its business by the First National, is unfound; the South Bend Tribune's business pages and the county histories' banking notices are the settling sources.Tabular Guide and the Comptroller's 1901 tables, and is carried over, not closed here.

The firms whose ends are unfound: the pulp and paper cluster's closings, and the Indiana Paper Company's mill-and-office division, wait on the Paper Trade JournalThe Keasey Pulley Company has no record past the 1889 roster in anything reached; the manufacturers' directories of the 1890s and De Kever are its sources. The Mishawaka Factory Company of the 1889 page is unidentified. Louis VanDinter's organ works has no course past the roster line. The 1949 foundries — Duramold Castings, the S & H Foundry Corp., Wickman's brass foundry — and the Johnson A. Forge & Machine Co. stand at directory size; the Tribune and the state manufacturers' directories would carry their courses. Fred W. Bubb's founding year for his chapel is unverified; the firm's own history and the Tribune are the sources. Major Bros' passage from its own name to the shared 1949 address with Hygrade wants the Tribune and the packing trade press.

The trades' unfound ends: the ice harvest's ground — which reach or pond, whose icehouses — is in no record reached; the Enterprise and De Kever are the sources. The Mishawaka Farmers' Dairy's end, and the last milk round's year, want the Tribune and the state dairy reports. Mark Sing Lee's course past 1921 wants the Laundries headings of the 1920s and 1930s directories. The undertakers before Feiten — who buried Mishawaka between the town's founding and 1902 — stand in no heading reached; the 1868 absence is printed in the undertakers' entry, and the intervening county directories and gazetteers, if copies surface, are the settling sources.

The failures, stated honestly:A systematic Mishawaka failure docket — receiverships, assignments, bankruptcies, firm by firm — waits on the Mishawaka Enterprise film at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library and the federal court's records, and until it is run, the city's business failures are a named gap in this build, not a settled negative.

The searched negatives: no firm of accountants founded on Mishawaka ground was found in the headings worked — the professional layer of 1921 and 1949 names lawyers, realtors, and the Colpaert corporation, and carries no Accountants heading with a Mishawaka firm under it, searched and printed as a negative. No third bank name of 1921 hides in the classified's display advertisements: the two bank advertisements the book carries for institutions outside the heading — a Peoples State Bank and a Merchants National Bank, both giving South Bend addresses — are South Bend houses advertising across the river, and are excluded from the roster on the advertisements' own addresses. Farr's 1883 directory has no Mishawaka department, as the owners-roster pass established, so the 1880s rest on the 1889 manufacturers' page and Howard; and no directory after 1987 was reached in full text by this build, so no sweep here runs past the states printed. Each negative is a statement about the records named, and about no others.

Sources:

1. The sources of this section's entries, as cited in each — the gaps and negatives above are statements about those records, and about no others.