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Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman & Co., 1880 — read first-hand in the archive.org djvu texts
What it is: the first full history of the county, and the base layer under this build's nineteenth century. The Mishawaka passes read it in the Internet Archive's copies (items historyofstjosep00chap and historyofstjosep01chap): the county press chapter (pp. 574–576) for the Newspapers leg, the Penn Township chapter complete (pp. 788–790) and the Mishawaka chapter complete (pp. 790–797) for the Farms and Spine legs, chapter XVI, "Dark Deeds" (pp. 586–592), and the counterfeiting reminiscence (pp. 536–538) for the Crime leg, and the agriculture chapter's opening for the Farms leg. The Genealogy Trails transcription of the "Dark Deeds" chapter was cross-read against the scan text.
Its standing, from this build's experience: for Mishawaka's first fifty years Chapman is frequently the only connected account there is — the 1852 county fair, the flour trade's "large trade in the East," the first things of the town. Where Chapman is the sole carrier of a fact, this history prints him as the carrier, not as the verdict; his founding date for the Enterprise (1853) stands in print as one side of a three-way conflict the build declines to settle by preference.
Where it fails: mechanically, in the machine text. His chapter XIII township-products table is destroyed in the djvu text — no figure in this build is taken from it, and the settling read is the printed page image read by eye. The lesson generalized across this build: the transcription is a convenience; the page image is the source.
Sources:
- mishawaka-full/.
- Chapman (1880), read from the archive.org items named in the entry.