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Attested 1875
A whole second manufacturing corporation surfaces in the 1875 directory — and nowhere else any carrier reached. The atlas directory prints its slate: J. J. Hines, "President and Supt. Home Manufacturing Co.," of Clinton County, Indiana, settled 1871; Israel Irvin, "Vice President Home Manufacturing Co.," settled 1865 — the same Israel Irvin who runs the town's meat market in the 1880s gazetteers; H. H. Hagon [Ragon?], "Secretary and Treas. Home Manufacturing Co.," of Crawford County, Ohio, settled 1872, the surname as the atlas text's OCR garbles it, the page image governing; John Whitinger, "Director Home Mnfg. Co. & Dealer in Groceries & Provisions," settled 1854; G. J. Kellogg, director, settled in a year the OCR renders impossibly for an 1875 book; and George Stakestraw [Rakestraw], director, of Greene County, Ohio, settled 1849. Its product, founding date, course, and fate are stated by no carrier reached; it does not appear under that name in Polk's 1880–81, 1882–83, or 1884–85 editions, a negative within those editions. It registers here as an attested firm with an open file — a named gap whose settlers are Chapman's Liberty biographies at page-image strength and the Indiana corporation filings.