The long tail: sixty-eight names from the 1916–1917 gazetteer

MISHAWAKA, 1916–1917 · EACH NAME WITH ITS CARRYING RECORD

The professions: Wm. E. Borley, physician, 118 N. Church. I. E. Smith, physician, 126 W. Lincoln Highway. Isaac K. Parks, lawyer, 105 S. Main. The professions run short in this roll because the build's other rosters took the rest of the entry's doctors and lawyers first — the exclusion check, not the gazetteer, is what thins this paragraph.

The bank and office men: F. N. Smith, cashier, First National Bank, 101 W. Lincoln Highway. Stanley McIntosh, secretary-treasurer, Mishawaka Trust & Savings Co., 112 N. Main. A. D. Warner, president, North Side Trust & Savings Co., 602 N. Main. E. A. Saunders, president, Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co. G. M. Fountain, president, Perkins Wind Mill Co. E. H. Merrick, secretary, Perkins Wind Mill Co. O. M. Voorhees, secretary-treasurer, Lowe Bros. Lumber Co., 332 S. Main. F. M. Case, treasurer, Frank Lumber & Coal Co., 423 Spring. E. A. Andersen, general manager, Rubber Regenerating Co. B. L. McElroth, manager, Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co., 118 N. Main. Wilfred Dudding, agent, Central Union Telephone Co., 123 E. Lincoln Highway. B. S. Muller, manager, Western Union Telegraph Co., 104 E. Lincoln Highway. M. E. Crego, sales agent, Singer Sewing Machine Co., 119 S. Main.

The grocers — the trade the entry carries thickest: Julius A. Bennett, 426 W. 7th. Wm. Bradford, 105 E. Lincoln Highway. C. W. Gamble and W. O. Gamble (C. W. Gamble & Son), 111 W. Joseph. David Kaiser, 220 E. Joseph. John F. Hollister, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. Harry G. Hutchison, 107 E. Joseph. Harvey A. Martin, 211 N. Main. David Harstein, 502 S. Main. Harrit D. Stubbe, 427 W. 7th. C. Cannoot and R. Graveel (Cannoot & Graveel), 501 W. 6th.

Food, drink and lodging: Thomas A. Bless, coal — entered here with the fuel trade — 506 N. Main. Wm. A. Bordy, confectioner, 506 N. Main. Chas. F. Cataldo, restaurant, 118 W. Lincoln Highway. Michael Cataldo, restaurant, 213 N. Main. Bert DeVault, manager, Mishawaka Hotel, 212 S. Main. Mrs. Nicholas Eckstein, manager, Hotel Milburn, 106 S. Main. Dwight L. Burkett, feed, 224 S. Main. Russell, coal, 102 E. Front and 430 Spring. Frederick J. Major, meats, 107 W. Lincoln Highway.

Clothing, cloth and the needle: Alphonse DeCocker, tailor, 121 S. Main. Peter G. Lehman, tailor, 113 W. Lincoln Highway. Henry Van Volsen, dry goods, 422 W. 7th. Myer Weller, dry goods, 503 N. Main. A. C. Haslanger, dry goods, 113 W. Lincoln Highway. Mrs. Viola C. Vogt, proprietor, Carpenter Millinery, 121 W. Lincoln Highway. Harry W. Clark, clothes cleaner and laundry, 114 E. 1st.

The shops and the street trades: John Q. Swanger Jr., hardware, 110 W. Lincoln Highway. Lawrence J. Casbon, cigars, 124 W. Lincoln Highway. Chas. A. Lawler, cigars, 109 W. Joseph. Clifton C. Cone, bicycles, 116 W. Lincoln Highway. Morris Sorkin, bicycles, 512 N. Main. Wm. H. Parmenter, jeweler, 107 E. Lincoln Highway. Aloysius A. Van Kie, jeweler, 126 N. Main. Albert S. Garvin, jeweler, 605 N. Main. F. J. Fruch and C. J. Thomas (Fruch & Thomas), drugs, 106 E. Lincoln Highway. R. V. B. Belleghen (Claeys & Belleghen), meats, 824 W. 4th. Wm. E. Priest, electrical supplies, 103 E. Lincoln Highway. Charles Roy, wall paper, W. Lincoln Highway. P. R. Shemberger, wall paper, 109 E. 1st. Geo. A. Burkhart, messenger service, 114 S. Main. Benjamin F. Steelsmith, second-hand goods, 215 S. Main. M. W. Hunsberger (Hunsberger Sales Co.), farm implements, 424 S. Main. N. Christianson (Mishawaka Furniture Co.), furniture, 203 N. Main. W. R. Pasko (The Franklin Press), printers, 111 W. Front. Jos. Thallemer (Thallemer Bros.), undertakers, 201 N. Main. O. J. Lambiotte, manager, Temple Theatre, 102 E. Lincoln Highway. C. C. Hurst, manager, Trick Bros.' 5-and-10 store, 119 W. Lincoln Highway. T. A. Ullman, manager, F. A. Ullman Co., clothing, 117 S. Main.

The count, owned: 68 names — the count the search honestly reached. The floor pattern for the item was 60; the gazetteer alone cleared it after the exclusion check removed the names the build already carries. The remaining named sources of the item — Johnson's 1902–03 directory and Howard's 1907 history rosters, and the Polk city directories of 1921, 1949, 1956 and 1963 — were not exhausted by the search and would carry the tail further and later; they are named here as the sweep's own open edge rather than silently dropped, and the Polk 1921 classified sections in particular stand behind two of this build's other addenda as a settling source. No name above rests on anything but the one record cited, and where that record garbles a spelling, the garble is the record's and is left standing.

Sources:

1. R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–1917, pt. 2, Mishawaka entry (pp. 846–848 of the gazetteer), via Internet Archive text at ldsgenealogy.com — the carrying record for all 68 names.
2. R. L. Polk & Co., South Bend, Indiana City Directory, 1921 (Mishawaka directory canvass: 7,023 names; population reckoned 17,547) — frame only.
3. Exclusion check, November 2026: candidate names string-searched against Notable People, Business Owners Directory and Public Servants (build copies); carriers found there excluded, as listed in this section's head comment.