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The standing sweep · ties stated exactly
The sweep for lives the wider record knows returns four names, and no more. Richard Risley Carlisle: born elsewhere, founder here at twenty-one, famous everywhere — his tie is the plat of 1835, stated in his article above. Schuyler Colfax: a boy clerk in a New Carlisle store in 1836, Vice President in 1869 — his tie is the clerkship, stated exactly, and his fame is South Bend's to tell. Lucius Hubbard: a Terre Coupee boyhood, an honorable Michigan career at the strength Howard gives it — his tie is the boyhood and his father's town. The California major-general: Chapman's sketch makes Isaac Newton Miller of this township "a brother of Maj.-Gen. Miller, of California" — the tie is fraternal and the general is not named in the record read. Beyond these, the records read for this build — both county histories in full, the cemetery inscriptions, the state rolls — carry no other life from this ground into national notice, and the sweep prints that residue plainly: a town of farmers, storekeepers, teachers and one acrobat, whose collective biography is the forty-five sketches of 1880 and the twenty-three names of the aged list. That is not a small inheritance. It is simply the true one.
Sources
- Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), as cited in the articles above; the sweep's negative is stated at the strength of the records read.