The founding claims, as a pair: who came first, and who founded

1830–1835 · CHAPMAN P. 765, READ AT THE PAGE FOR THIS DIG

The pair stands or falls at one page, and this section read the page. The first claim — the Atlas's. The county Atlas gave the township's first marriage to Charles Vail and Olive Stanton. Chapman, at page 765 of the Olive chapter, corrects it in one sentence: "The first couple married in this township, according to the Atlas of the county, were Charles Vail and Olive Stanton, but this is not correct." The corrective's completion is the part the banked set had not captured (NC-1 gap 13), and read at the page it is now plain: Chapman names no replacement couple — the correction is a denial that stands alone, and the first marriage of the township is left by its corrector unnamed. Around the denial the page fixes the Vails' true place: Charles Vail settled in 1830 and was afterward elected County Judge, and "this township received its name in honor of the wife of Charles Vail" — the township's name is Olive's monument, the marriage claim false. The first-settler field the page supports is a field, not a man: Jacob Rush "held the plow for the first furrow ever turned in this township, and he also helped to raise the first cabin here, which belonged to his brother Israel Rush." Verdict on the first claim: failed, at its corrector's page, with no successor named. The second claim — the founder's. Chapman, same page: New Carlisle "was founded by Richard R. Carlisle, a sportsman and traveler of early day, who finally died in Philadelphia. The land at this point was first owned by Bursaw, a Frenchman, whose wife was an Indian; after his death the property descended to his children, and it was from them that it was bought by Mr. Carlisle." — "Bursaw" being the Bourissa of the treaty schedule, whose quarter-section (Lazarus Bourissa's, the northeast quarter of Section 34) the plat stands on. The founder's name carries its three forms — Richard Carlisle, Richard R. Carlisle in Chapman, Richard Risley Carlisle in the record of his stage life as Professor Risley — and the forms print together, unmerged. Verdict on the second claim: stands — Carlisle founded the town, in 1835, on the Bourissa children's ground, and the treaty record and the county history agree on the ground if not on the spelling of either name. NC-1 gap 13 is closed by this read: the corrective sentence is complete as printed, and its completion is that there is none.

Sources:

1. Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter, pp. 763–766 — the oldest settlers (p. 763), the naming and the corrective (p. 765), the founding and the prairie (pp. 765–766); read at the page for this section (LDSGenealogy OCR text of Chapman, parts 75–76). The carrier is an OCR text and prints with that caution.
2. Notable People, nc-ppl-bourissa and nc-ppl-founder — the treaty schedule (7 Stat. 299), the quarter-section, the 1835 purchase, the Risley forms.