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Printed whole, per the house rule
Jim Gaffigan — tested negative. A travel-content site (wondrousdrifter.com) states flatly that the comedian Jim Gaffigan "was born in Mishawaka." The record says otherwise on both ends of the claim: James Christopher Gaffigan was born July 7, 1966, at Elgin, Illinois, and raised at Chesterton, in northwest Indiana — the Chesterton raising is the one he himself builds his act on. No Mishawaka birth, no Mishawaka raising, no Mishawaka tie of any documented kind was found. He is not Mishawaka's, and the claim is printed here as a tested negative so it need not be tested again.
The Medal of Honor — tested negative. The brief for this section directed a test of the nation's highest decoration: a Mishawaka recipient, if the rolls carried one, would have been carried here whole. They do not. No Medal of Honor recipient is credited to Mishawaka — by birth, by entered service, or by burial — in the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's rolls or the state recipient lists read. The nearest the record comes is literary: the Mishawaka-raised author Andrew De Kever profiled ten recipients in his Here Rests in Honored Glory, five of them from Indiana and Michigan — Michigan City, Hammond, Milford, Niles and South Bend — and none from Mishawaka. The Wars leg owns the county's service rolls whole; the documented heroism this section does carry stands in the Brenneman entry above, at Silver Star strength, which is the strength the record gives.
The rest of the sweep: Every other name the standard compilations assign to Mishawaka was tested against the tie. Those that verified stand in this section at the size their records support; those that belong to the Sports leg stand in the cross-reference line above; and the one name whose tie itself split between its sources — Timothy J. DeGeeter, South Bend in the standard biographies, "grew up in Mishawaka" in his own city's official biography — stands in his entry with the conflict printed whole, rather than in this article or out of the file.