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Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, 2 vols., Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1907 — read first-hand
What it is: the second county history, a generation on, and for this ground the more documentary of the two. The pass read the Olive Township section (Chapter VIII, §13, pp. 296–297 and following) and the New Carlisle section (Chapter IX, §1, the incorporated towns, pp. 312–313) whole, and the preface besides — which matters here, because among the helpers Howard acknowledges stands Albert H. Compton of New Carlisle: the town had a hand in its own account. Where Chapman narrates, Howard files. His Olive chapter gives the township's formal formation — the third township formed, by the order of May 6, 1832 that created Penn, Portage and Olive together, Olive then comprising all of the county west of range 2 east and still, in his day, the county's second-largest township, exceeded only by Penn — and the 1900 census frame: Olive including New Carlisle, 1,998 people, 1,491 of them outside the town. He carries the naming story at anecdote strength, through Jesse Haines's reminiscence: Judge Egbert, at supper with the Vails in 1831, declaring "this being the best and most beautiful township in St. Joseph county, it shall be named for your girl wife." He gives the first election at John Druliner's log house, Charles Vail inspector — a Quaker, who required affirmation rather than oath — Israel Rush as first justice of the peace, and the Black Hawk alarm of 1832, when a fort went up at Garwood's at Terre Coupee.
For the town, Howard is the build's documentary spine. He quotes the 1835 plat whole: the northeast quarter of section 34, township 38 north, range 1 west; lots 132 by 50 feet; Michigan Street one hundred feet wide, Front, Chestnut, Cherry, Filbert, Arch and Race sixty feet each; surveyed by Tyra W. Bray; acknowledged by Carlisle August 15, 1835; the extended plat filed March 15, 1837, printed and lithographed in New York with a view of the town. He carries the incorporation record at docket strength — Samuel C. Lancaster's petition with thirty-one others, the election of June 30, 1866 ordered, the report filed September 4, 1866 showing forty-four for and six against, the board's order incorporating the town — the Lake Shore railroad's arrival in 1851, the schools' transfer to the Olive Township trustee under the act of March 3, 1899, the New Carlisle Collegiate Institute (erected by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1859, opened 1861, its alumni reunion of August 29, 1907 drawing some eighty alumni), and the town's 1900 population, 597.
Where he fails, named because the build prints his failures with his facts: his printer set "the schools of New Castle" where New Carlisle was meant, a misprint that stands in the published volume; and in the single passage where the town's land chain matters most, his spellings wander — the land "obtained from the Indians by one Lazarus Bourissan, a Frenchman who married an Indian wife," purchased "from the children of Bourissau" — two forms of one name inside one paragraph, neither of them the form the modern record uses. His Gazette founding account (Part Three) also reverses the order of the two founders' names against Chapman's contemporary telling; on the founding date and facts the two histories agree, and the agreement is worth more for the disagreement at the edges. Volume 2 — the biographical volume, where Olive Township's men would stand at sketch depth — was located but its Olive contents were not measured; the shelf article on the digitized copies below states how the volume was found, and the open file carries the unmeasured sketches as a named item.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), preface, Chapter VIII §13 and Chapter IX §1, read first-hand (Internet Archive, vol. 1, item historyofstjosep01howa; vol. 2 located through the state library's outlink, see the shelves article in Part Five); Demarchus C. Brown's review of the work in the Indiana Magazine of History (1908) for its contemporary reception.