The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
What the record does not carry, and what would settle it
Four gaps stand open in the people's record, each with its settler named. (1) The first-married couple of the township: Chapman denies the atlas's Vail–Stanton answer and gives none; the county marriage record from 1830 settles it. (2) The hotel-keeper Hamilton's first name: no record read gives it; the Terre Coupee plat papers, the 1840 census of the township, or the county's first tavern licenses would. (3) The identity of Lieutenant Solomon H. Fountain of the Roll of Honor with the Gazette founder's father: the publisher's sketch and the Roll print side by side in the war file; the officer's compiled service record and pension file would settle it. (4) The mayoral and council succession between the incorporation of 1866 and the surviving minute books: the government file carries the line from 2008; the town's nineteenth-century officers beyond K. C. Taylor's fourteen years as treasurer stand in minute books and newspaper files not yet read for this build. Everything else the sketches name has been carried; the canvassers of 1880 missed whom they missed, and no later record reached repairs them.
Sources
- Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), at the passages cited; the gaps are stated against the records read.