The second rank, in brief — and the successions this record does not name

the gaps, printed rather than filled

The directory rank: The 1889 manufacturers' directory names Mishawaka houses whose founders the record reached does not carry beyond the directory line — the Beatty Felting Company; the Keasey Pulley Company, a second pulley maker in the town Dodge was making a pulley capital; the Roper Furniture Company and the St. Joe Valley Furniture Company; Louis VanDinter, manufacturer of organs — the same VanDinter whose pipe organ stands in the Music section's St. Paul's record; and the sawmills, cooperage, and pump works of the Businesses section's roster. They stand here as the directory gives them: a census of a moment, not biographies, and any one of them is a named pull for the update cycle rather than a line invented here. Herman J. Muldoon, owner of the Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Company in the industry journal's account of October 1951, stands at the same strength — an owner documented, a founding not: the Food section carries the house whole and its founding's open seam, and this section claims no more for him than the journal prints.

The gaps, named: The silences in the founder and succession record are printed as this section's closing facts. Dodge Manufacturing's presidents between Melvin Mix's death in 1927 and Reliance Electric's acquisition in 1967 are not documented in the record reached — the settling sources are the Mishawaka city directories, which print officers firm by firm, and the South Bend Tribune's business pages. The Mishawaka Woolen / Rubber & Woolen company's local chiefs after Emmett Saunders's death in 1933 are likewise unnamed in the sources read — the company's records at the IU South Bend Archives and Babcock's History of United States Rubber Company (1966) are the settling sources. The First National Bank of Mishawaka's presidential line across eighty-two years waits on Pollock's monograph for charter No. 5167 and the Comptroller's annual reports; the West End State Bank's organizers of 1920, and the name of Darwin Wiekamp's partner in the 1966 purchase, wait on the state banking record and the Wiekamp papers. The Kamm & Schellinger succession after the founding generation, the power company's incorporators of 1900, Wheelabrator's chiefs after Pfaff, the Mishawaka wagon works' chiefs after Milburn's Toledo removal, and the Gates group's present named president stand in the same posture. For most of the men and women who founded Mishawaka's second rank of companies, the founding act is nearly the whole of the documented life, and this section has printed it at that size rather than invent the rest.

Sources:

1. Businesses & Banks — "The rest of the 1889 roster" (the directory houses at directory size, with the settling sources named there) and the entries of this section at their own loci, for each gap as its entry states it.
2. Food & Restaurants — the Bonnie Doon record (Herman J. Muldoon as owner in Ice Cream Field, October 1951; the founding carried as an open seam).