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1830–2026 · the sources of the lives
A town of fewer than two thousand people keeps its biography in a handful of books. The fullest of them is the Olive Township chapter of Chapman's 1880 county history, whose anonymous canvassers sat down with the township's old men and women in 1879–80 and printed what they said: some forty-five personal sketches, a narrative of the first settlements, and the recollections of Barvilla Druliner of New Carlisle, whom Chapman calls "that man of great memory." this section tells the people's courses at the strength of those records. Where the record gives a man two names, both print. Where it gives a date that cannot exist, the date prints as the record's own and is flagged. The sitting officeholders of the town, township, fire territory and school corporation are carried in the government leg's file person by person; they are named here at line strength where a life crosses theirs, and not re-dug.
Sources
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880), Olive Township chapter, pp. 764–787, read first-hand in the archive.org digitized text.
- Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907), vol. 1, read first-hand in the archive.org digitized text.
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Schuyler Colfax Chapter, St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Records, vol. I (c. 1900), Hamilton Cemetery inscriptions.