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the county shelf, as it stands November 2026
The 1893 volume is the Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph CountiesSouth Bend and the Men Who Have Made It, compiled by Anderson & Cooley, printed by the Tribune Printing Company in 1901, 461 pages, its originals in the state library's closed stacks with film LH8288 and a reprint as the working copies. The Stoll volume — Pass 1's standing question — is likewise identified exactly and its content test still open: Logan Esarey's History of Indiana (Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923) carries as its third volume An Account of St. Joseph County from Its Organization, edited by John B. Stoll, 565 pages, standing at the state library both in print in the Indiana reference collection and on film, with page images in the national digital library. The town's paper did mark institutional centennials — the Masons' in 1960, cited by the nomination — but a newspaper article is not a town history, and the distinction is the finding. The state's county list, read whole, fills the shelf's county frame: the South Bend centennial clippings of 1923 and the Tribune's Bicentennial volume of 1976 in closed stacks; the DAR's Historic Background of 1927 and its 1974 souvenir edition; Karst's Potato Creek of 1980; and Franklin Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph CountyThe same list holds town histories for five sister towns and none for this one — the shelf's shape in one line: North Liberty is the town the county's book trade covered through other people's books.