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items 4 and 8, and the roster divergence settled — Samuel Davis, photographer, of Michigan
The roster returned empty for photographers seated in this town, and one name stands outside the roster's frame — printed here as this section's unfinished entry, never completed by guess: Samuel Davis, son of James Davis of Section 8, spent twenty years a telegraph operator and was "by then a photographer in Michigan" when Chapman canvassed his father's household in 1880. That is the whole of his record in this build: a trade named, a state named, no town, no studio, no dates, no surviving work attributed. The divergence the audit flagged dissolves at that reading — the specialty roster counts photographers seated in New Carlisle, and Davis was not one; he is this ground's emigrant to the trade, carried here in the photographers leg where he belongs, at exactly the strength of his one line. The inventor test runs from him and returns empty: no solar-camera or other trade patent is searched out for any photographer of this ground in the patent record reached — the set's one photographer was gone to Michigan before the patent era of his trade could attach to him — and the patent search under New Carlisle assignees stands named as the test's deeper settler.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), sketch of James Davis (this build's Notable People, nc-ppl-longtail) — Samuel Davis's one line.
- This build's this history (the photographers roster, returned empty for the town) and Sources (nc-src-photos, where the pictures live).