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Goodspeed Brothers, Chicago, 1893 — named and not read for this ground
What it is: the third of the county's subscription-era set works: Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana, the Goodspeed firm's two-county biographical volume. The Indiana State Library's county holdings guide carries it (call 977.201 E43p) with an Internet Archive copy noted. The class is the vanity-biographical class at its most characteristic: sketches of the men who subscribed, written warm, and — used at their proper strength — a prosopography of the county's propertied class in 1893, including, in the ordinary course of such volumes, Olive Township farmers and New Carlisle merchants. This build did not read it for Olive Township, and prints it so: it stands as the shelf's largest unread county volume, named in the pull list with its seat. What it would be good for, when read, is the 1893 cross-section — who held the township's land and the town's stores a decade after Chapman; what it will not be good for is anything its subjects had reason to shade.
Principal sources: Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County holdings guide (read first-hand), for the volume's cataloging and digitized copy; the volume itself named and not read.