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Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, 2 vols., Lewis Publishing, 1907 — the build's most-worked book
What it is: the second county history, and the one this build lived in. Chapter I, "Topography" (pp. 1–19), was read end to end for the Land and Before-the-City legs; chapter X, "The City of Mishawaka," carries the four original plats, the text of the 1838 incorporation act, and the Iron Works company charter of 22 January 1835; the Mishawaka chapter's press section (§13, pp. 346–347) and its secret-societies section (§11) anchor those legs; the "Business Enterprises" section and the incorporation roll 1838–1903 were read whole by the Business Gaps pass; volume 2's biographies (Jernegan, pp. 505–506; Mix; Bingham; Butterworth) fed the Founders, Public Servants and Newspapers legs; and the officer rosters Howard prints for May 1899, May 1900, May 1902, May 1904 and November 1905 were printed whole by the Public Servants leg — the November 1905 roster's seven-man council bounds the Government leg's undated ten-to-seven shrink to that month at the latest.
Its standing, from this build's experience: Howard was a participant — a Mishawaka lawyer, judge and senator writing of men he knew — and his rosters, charters and rolls are the strongest nineteenth-century paper the build has. His Mishawaka chapter is also where several of the build's printed conflicts live: his Jernegan biography gives the Enterprise a third birthday (1854), and his incorporation roll both supplied firms no other source carries and, read against the directories, corrected the first business pass's silences.
Where it fails: in the copy this build could reach. Howard was read largely through the ldsgenealogy.com transcription, whose own notice states its text "was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors." The Before-the-City pass cross-checked chapter I's quotations against Capps (1910) where the two overlap; figures resting on the transcription alone are flagged in the owning notes.
Sources:
- The transcription host's own notice (ldsgenealogy.com) that its text is AI-generated.