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THE SECOND-RANK RECORD, SWEPT BY SOURCE — HOWARD (1907), CHAPMAN (1880), THE POLK DIRECTORIES, THE COURT AND BOARD ROSTERS
Entries are numbered so the pass can be counted. Each entry carries the record that names its person; a directory proves a holder at its canvass, and spans are stated as the span between books, never smoothed.
1. Dr. Louis Humphreys — physician, in association for a time with Norman Eddy during Eddy's Mishawaka practice, 1835–47; the association is carried in the standard biographical accounts behind the Eddy profile in the banked People file.
2. Dr. James J. Bostwick — physician; secretary of the Board of Health in Howard's roster of November 1905 (Public Servants fragment, from Howard (1907), vol. 1).
3. Dr. Christian A. Dresch — physician; member of the Board of Health in 1905 and its secretary in the Polk directory of 1921.
4. Dr. Richard A. Ganser — physician; president of the Board of Health in the Polk directory of 1949 and a member in 1956. The Ganser surname also stands on the clerk's desk of 1904 (Francis X. Ganser, entry 50 below); the kinship is unstated in the record and unasserted.
5. Dr. Byron J. Wyland — physician; secretary of the Board of Health in the Polk directory of 1956.
6. Libero Baldoni — the city's health officer in the Polk directory of 1949.
7. Dr. Robert Davis — member of the board of education in 1963, in the Miskodeed yearbook's board photograph caption and the Polk directory of that year.
8. E. Volney Bingham (1844–1907) — the nineteenth century's fullest Mishawaka service career below the mayoral line: born 1 August 1844 in Penn Township, sergeant major of the Forty-eighth Indiana, justice of the peace for twelve years on the Democratic ticket in a strong Republican township, admitted to the bar in 1875, postmaster of Mishawaka during Cleveland's administration, Democratic candidate for circuit judge in 1894, and state senator for St. Joseph and Starke counties from 1892, succeeding Timothy E. Howard on Howard's promotion to the Indiana Supreme Court, chairman of the Committee on State's Prisons in 1903 and returned in November 1906 — Howard (1907), vol. 2, his biography whole. He is also the man Manuel Fisher beat, 656 to 612, in the first mayoral election of 1899.
9. Archibald G. Graham — city attorney in Howard's rosters of 1899, 1900 and 1904.
10. Edward A. Howard — city attorney in Howard's roster of 1902; not merged with the county historian Timothy Edward Howard (entry 19), whom the roster book itself distinguishes by name.
11. William P. O'Neill — city attorney in Howard's roster of November 1905.
12. Ralph H. Jernegan — city attorney in the Polk directory of 1921.
13. Ralph S. Feig — city judge in the Polk directory of 1921; the surname is printed as the directory's OCR transcription gives it, in the Government fragment's caution and here.
14. Judge Raab — city judge by December 1922, when the South Bend News-Times of 20 December 1922 reported "Judge Raab imposes 90-day jail sentences instead of former 30 days" in the bootlegging cases, the first cases before him since the police cleanup began, backing Mayor Dodge's orders; no given name stands in the sources read.
15. Hon. George V. Cavanaugh — city judge in the Polk directory of 1949, his court at 204 East First.
16. Peter M. LaCava — justice of the peace in 1949, his office at 123½ Lincolnway West, and city judge in the directories of 1956 and 1963 — the city court's longest documented holder, his course running from the township's oldest judicial desk to the city bench.
17. Hon. J. Fred Bingham — judge of Superior Court No. 1 in the Polk directory of 1949, and the same J. Fred Bingham the Government fragment's 1917 campaign record shows speaking for the Democratic ticket in Mishawaka a generation earlier; not E. Volney Bingham (entry 8), who cannot have sat on a bench in 1949, and their kinship is unstated.
18. E. Spencer Walton Jr. — Mishawaka lawyer with May Oberfell Lorber since 1979, born in Mishawaka on 22 February 1952; the mayor of 1950–54 is his father, on the firm's biography as carried in the Government fragment.
19. Timothy Edward Howard (1837–1916) — the county's historian and this build's standing source: judge, state senator, then of the Indiana Supreme Court, succeeded in the senate in 1892 by Bingham (entry 8); his History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907) prints the rosters half this long tail stands on.
20. Paul Frank Jernegan — Mishawaka architect; the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's Heritage Room record credits him with designing Mishawaka High School's additions "so seamlessly you can't tell old from new" (Architecture fragment).
21. A. F. Wickes — architect of the Old Mishawaka Carnegie Library, to Fred G. Eberhart's donated site and a $30,000 Carnegie grant, opening 5 May 1916 (National Register record, as carried in the Libraries and Wealth records).
22. Austin & Shambleau — the architectural firm that designed the Eberhart Mansion in 1929, occupied 1931, built of bricks fired specially for the project by the Old Virginia Brick Company of Salem, Virginia (the mansion's account, as carried in the Wealth fragment).
23. Durham and Snyder — the South Bend firm that designed the Beiger Mansion, 317 Lincolnway East, planned 1900–01, with grounds by Jens Jensen; boundary-printed as a South Bend firm whose standing Mishawaka work this is (the mansion's published history).
24. Norman V. Brower — editor and proprietor of the Mishawaka Enterprise: the 1868 business directory of St. Joseph County lists "Mishawaka Enterprise, weekly, NV Brower, editor and prop," and his Iowa legislative biography records that, graduated from the select school at Mishawaka and home from the battlefield, he "commenced the publication of the Mishawaka (Ind.) Enterprise, which he continued up till October, 1870," before an editing career in Davenport, Mason City, Dubuque and South Bend.
25. Archibald Beal — teacher of eighteen terms after his family's removal to Mishawaka on 5 April 1853, then editor and proprietor of the Mishawaka Enterprise from 1 August 1858 to 1 November 1865, when he purchased the St. Joseph Valley Register at South Bend, succeeding Schuyler Colfax in its management (Chapman, History of La Porte County, Indiana (1880), his biography).
26. Ed A. Jernegan — proprietor and publisher of the Mishawaka Enterprise in Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer of 1884–85 ("Jernegan Ed A, propr Mishawaka Enterprise"), and, on his great-grandson Richard Jernegan Doolittle's account in the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's Jernegan tribute, a Mishawaka lawyer who was postmaster here as well as proprietor and publisher of the Enterprise through the early 1920s, before selling the paper to focus on his practice.
27. DeWitt Clinton Ireland — printer for Schuyler Colfax at Mishawaka, on the Oregon newspaper-history record; publisher of the Mishawaka Free Press, which he sold to Larry A. Elliott, who changed its name to the Mishawaka Enterprise — the Mishawaka chapter of an itinerant printer's career that later founded papers in St. Paul and Oregon City (Tetlow, D. C. Ireland and the Astorian, University of Oregon thesis, 1972, from the St. Joseph Valley Register of 1855).
Sources:
- The Public Servants fragment of this build — the machinery, court, schools and Bingham articles, from Howard (1907), the Polk directories of 1921, 1949, 1956 and 1963, the South Bend News-Times of 20 December 1922, and the National Probation Association directory of 1928.
- The Government, Architecture, Libraries and Wealth fragments of this build — the Jernegan, Wickes, Austin & Shambleau and Durham and Snyder credits as stated in the entries.
- Iowa General Assembly, legislative biography of Norman Vaughan Brower; 1868 Business Directory of St. Joseph County (Genealogy Trails transcription); Chapman, History of La Porte County (1880), biography of Archibald Beal; Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory (1884–85), Mishawaka page; Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, Jernegan Family Tribute transcript; Tetlow (1972) on D. C. Ireland.