The long tail, II: trustees, councilmen, clerks, marshals and the appointed desks — entries 28–58

1835 – 1963 — FROM HOWARD'S ROSTERS OF 1899–1905 AND THE POLK DIRECTORIES OF 1921, 1949, 1956 AND 1963

28. James White — one of the five trustees elected 31 January 1835 at the house of Orlando Hurd, the first public servants of the place (Howard (1907), the election return).

29. Alexander Sandilands — trustee of 1835; Chapman (1880) spells the name "Sanderlands," the older book's type, not a different man.

30. Samuel Stancliff — trustee of 1835; Chapman spells the name "Stancliif."

31. Henry De Camp — trustee of 1835, on Howard's return.

32. John J. Deming — trustee of 1835 and clerk of the election that chose the five, his hand signing the return dated 3 April 1835 that Howard prints whole; also a partner of Hurd's in the St. Joseph Iron Works company of December 1834.

33. John C. Protsman — of the last town board, the trustees who "superintended the transfer of Mishawaka from a town to a city government" in 1899 (Howard).

34. Charles E. Drapier — of the last town board, 1899.

35. John J. Schindler — of the last town board, 1899.

36. John W. Zigler — of the last town board, 1899.

37. Peter W. Ipes — of the last town board, 1899.

38. Lorenzo D. Partridge — First Ward councilman in 1899, 1904 and November 1905, the founding council's longest server on Howard's rolls.

39. Alfred S. Hess — Fourth Ward councilman in 1899, 1900 and 1902, and on the city's Board of Health in 1905.

40. Jesse H. Gaines — Fourth Ward councilman in 1899, 1900 and 1904.

41. Peter Tollens — Third Ward councilman in 1899 and 1900, giving way to Peter Jansen by 1902, who sits again in 1904; two holders carried in one entry because the roster carries the seat's hand-off in one line.

42. William M. Clark — city treasurer in Howard's rosters of 1899, 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1905: five successive rosters through three mayors, the first servant whose tenure the record measures in administrations.

43. Charles Doolittle — street commissioner in Howard's rosters of 1899–1905 and in the Polk directory of 1921 still — the middle initial read H by Howard and W by Polk, one man across six rosters and twenty-two years, the longest documented tenure at any Mishawaka desk of the charter generation.

44. Grant Needham — city marshal in Howard's rosters of 1899 and 1900, the charter city's first elected marshal on the record.

45. Jerome Rossman — city marshal in the roster of 1902.

46. Frederick Stockberger — city marshal in the roster of 1904.

47. Benjamin F. Jarrett — city marshal in the roster of November 1905; the Jarrett surname stands again under Chief Pfender in 1921 (Benjamin Jarrett, assistant chief, and John Jarrett, desk sergeant, on the Government fragment's directory record), the echo printed as the record gives it and as nothing more.

48. Henry C. Eggleston — the first city clerk, in Howard's rosters of May 1899 and May 1900.

49. Horace G. Eggleston — city clerk in the roster of May 1902; whether kin to his predecessor of the same surname the record reached does not say, and the two men are printed unmerged.

50. Francis X. Ganser — city clerk in the roster of May 1904.

51. Walter Michael — city clerk in November 1905 and city controller in the Polk directory of 1921: a fiscal servant's sixteen-year arc across two of the city's paper offices, each end documented.

52. Joseph DeLorenzi — city clerk in 1921, doubling as clerk of the Board of Public Works, the clerk's office serving as the government's paper memory in fact as well as in name.

53. Willis L. Kimball — city treasurer in the Polk directory of 1921, the charter frame's separate purse desk still standing beside the clerk's.

54. Valentine J. Pfender — chief of police in the Polk directory of 1921, headquarters in City Hall at 204 East First Street.

55. Charles R. Shelton — chief of the fire department in 1921, Central Station No. 1 at 112 North Church Street, with G. Edwin Christian as assistant chief and William Roggeman as captain, and Captain O. M. Goeller at No. 2 Station — the subordinates carried inside their chief's entry because the directory carries the station in one listing.

56. Austin R. Klein — "City Electrician — A. R. Klein" in 1921, and superintendent of the city Water and Electric Office in the directories of 1949, 1956 and 1963: four books, forty-two years apart at the ends, the longest documented service at one Mishawaka desk in the whole build, printed as four fixpoints and not smoothed into a claim of unbroken service.

57. Harry J. Magrane — city sealer in 1921, in 1949 (as Dr. Harry J. Magrane) and in 1956: thirty-five years between the first and last books at the smallest desk in City Hall, the weights and measures of every shop in Mishawaka passing through one man's inspection; in 1963 the sealer is Patrick Simeri.

58. James L. Stephens — city engineer in the Polk directory of 1921; his successors at documented points are Frank J. Miller (1949, doubling on the Board of Public Works and Safety), Homer W. Fisher (1956, sitting on the Board of Public Safety) and Joseph B. McDonnell (1963, doubling on that board) — carried inside this entry as the desk's later holders, each named in his directory.

Sources:

1. Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907), vol. 1 — the election return of 31 January 1835, the last town board, and the officer rosters of May 1899, May 1900, May 1902, May 1904 and November 1905, as carried whole in the Public Servants fragment.
2. R. L. Polk & Co., South Bend City Directory (1921), Mishawaka section, and the directories of 1949, 1956 and 1963 — the holders of 1921 and the later holders carried inside entries 43, 55, 56, 57 and 58.
3. C. C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880) — the trustee spellings printed as variants in entries 29 and 30.