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False-Credit Hygiene — Whose Honors Are Not This Town's

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The hygiene statements from every class line in this section, gathered in one place

Lead: Four hygiene rules govern this whole ledger, and each class line above carries its own. First, Colfax: Schuyler Colfax removed with his mother and stepfather to New Carlisle in 1836 and clerked in his stepfather's store here for five years — a real, boyhood, raised-in-part tie — but he removed to South Bend in 1841, was deputy auditor there, founded and published the St. Joseph Valley Register there for eighteen years, represented South Bend's district, served as Speaker and Vice President from there, and is buried there. His honors, at his exact tie, are South Bend's; New Carlisle banks the clerk years and nothing beyond them. Second, the county is not the town: Harold Urey's Nobel is Walkerton's, at birth grade, and no county glow transfers. Third, the film: Prancer's credits, nominations and makers belong to the production, not to the ground it filmed on. Fourth, the general rule applied in every line of Legs 49 and 50: a work built elsewhere — a South Bend newspaper career, a parent company's laboratory invention, a remix or a band formed and seated elsewhere — is not made this town's by a childhood address, a filming week, or a plant gate inside the township line. Ties grade born, raised, seated, or birth-tie only, and the grade is printed with the claim.

Sources:

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica biography, Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia (1922) — Colfax removed to New Carlisle in 1836, removed to South Bend in 1841, deputy auditor and Register publisher there, https://wehd.com/bios/Schuyler_Colfax.html
  2. Willard H. Smith, Schuyler Colfax: Whig Editor, 1845–1855, Indiana Magazine of History — five years clerking at New Carlisle, 1836–1841, then South Bend for life, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/download/7066/7846/20088
  3. Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame — Schuyler Colfax biography (inducted 1966), New Carlisle settlement 1836 at age thirteen, South Bend newspaper from 1845, https://www.ijhf.org/members/1966/schuyler-colfax

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Source: False-Credit Hygiene — Whose Honors Are Not This Town's, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/awards-honors/false-credit-hygiene-whose-honors-are-not-this-town/