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Business Owners Roster
The owners roster, completed: the full 1916 roll, the bands, the Undated bucket
items 1, 2, 3, and 4 — every owner the record names, paired with their business
The roster's unit is name-to-firm, and the 1916 band is now the roll entire — all forty-one traders of Polk's canvass, lifted name by name from the directory article in this same build: M. K. Beall (marble) · Isaac W. Borden (dentist) · Charles J. Brockway (wallpaper and paints) · Charles C. Carney (harness) · Cutler & Cutler (furniture and undertakers) · Davidson & Porter (dry goods) · Ray V. Evans (garage) · Farmers Grain Co · E. L. Field (cigars) · Charles G. Fisher (hotel) · Frank H. Foster (physician) · Florence Gudmunsen (milliner) · Edward H. Harris (grocer) · C. M. Hauser (wholesale meats and produce) · Hudson Lake Ice Co (ice — Hudson Lake ground, flagged in the gaps article) · J. W. Jones (grocer) · Ed Kinney (meats) · S. I. Lauver (livery) · Edward L. Mandlin (printer) · James W. Miller (pumps) · J. L. Miller (grocer) · Harry Roloff (the New Carlisle Journal) · New Carlisle Milling Co · Ordung & Cunningham (wagonmakers) · Charles G. Phillips (clothing, furnishings, shoes) · Rapp Co (grocers, crockery, notions) · E. J. Sandmeier (contractor) · Guy R. Smith (hardware and farm implements) · Orville E. Smith (auto repairer) · Wm. J. Smith (grocer and hotel) · J. E. Stephens (cigars and confectionery) · Wade & Son (restaurant) · Francis D. Warner (drugs and notions) · Joseph B. Waynick (physician) · E. B. Williams (paperhanger) · Zeck Bros (hardware and lumber) — and the band's bank, the First National Bank, riding with the banks leg's owners. The bands, restated on the checklist's seven: to 1869 (the Chapman generation: the Services, Borden, Taylor, McCollum, the Terre Coupee houses) · 1870–1889 (Chapman's 1880 canvass generation, carried in the people roll) · 1890–1909 (the Brummitt generation, from the banks and businesses articles) · 1910–1929 (the roll above) · 1930–1949 and 1950–1989 (no directory band stands in the record reached — the roster's standing thin place, settler the mid-century directories) · 1990–present (the 2026 roll, in the article below). The Undated bucket, explicit: the hotel-keeper Hamilton of Terre Coupee, first name unrecovered (GAP-NC4-HAM-1) — banked undated and unnamed-in-part, never dropped; and the firm-only names of the rolls, carried as firms where the record gives no person. The roster is a sweep of the whole build — businesses, banks, people, directories — and its source line now says so.
Sources:
- Polk's roll, 1916–17, transcribed whole in this build's Businesses (nc-biz-directory-1916) and lifted entire into this roster.
Successions on the owners' lines, the sweep stated, and the founders concordance
items 5, 6, and 7 — firm A → firm B under the same owner; women and Black owners; the cross-check
The successions now ride on the roster's lines, where the record gives them: J. H. Service → George H. Service, the store taken over in 1867, the house running store → bank → grain under the son; the Brummitts, hardware → the Mercantile Company of 1903, with A. R.'s bank cashiership on the same family line; Cranmer → Ivens, the 1836 hotel under its second keeper. The elevator line carries the build's own warning on its face: Farmers Grain Co (1916) and Zahl's today share a trade, and no succession is asserted. The sweep, stated as a sweep: women owners stand swept, not chanced upon — Florence Gudmunsen (1916) in the band above; Margaret Czarnecki, and the 2026 roll's Huston, Millar, and Colanese lines, in the modern band; Rosa Linda (Ferguson) Wilson, afterward Howland, holding her 184-acre homestead and 480-acre course in Chapman's own praise of her "good business qualifications" in the first band. No Black owner is named in any roll this build holds — Chapman, Polk, or 2026 — and the absence is printed as a tested absence against the full rolls, in concord with the Black-history leg's tests in this run. The concordance: every founder named in this run's founders articles and in the people leg — Carlisle, the Services, the Brummitts, Fred G. Miller, Koby Keck — appears in this roster with their firm, and the roster and the founders frame now agree, as the item requires; where they cannot (the bank succession's middle, GAP-NC3-BANK-3), both files name the same gap.
Sources:
- This build's Businesses, Banks, and Notable People (the Service, Brummitt, and Cranmer–Ivens courses; the Wilson/Howland sketch), and this run's this history (the founders frame the concordance runs against).