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Owners Roster
The owners roster inside the banked Businesses leg bands Osceola's proprietors by era. This addendum runs the three checks the roster cannot run on itself: an explicit sweep for the owners a general pass leaves to chance, a name-by-name cross-check against the People leg's founders, and a completeness statement that says which source classes were swept and which were not. The roster itself is not edited here.
Women and Black owners, swept explicitly: the sweep, and its result
Sweep run against the roster, the 1875 atlas directory, and both gazetteer censuses · Osceola and Penn Township
The sweep is shown, as the row directs. Sources swept by proprietor: the owners roster whole (all era bands and the undated bucket); the 1875 atlas's Osceola post-office directory (ten legible entries); the Polk gazetteer…
Cross-check against People: every founder named there, accounted for here
Name by name · Osceola founders and proprietors
The check ran name by name against the People leg's founders and proprietors; each disposition prints, and no name is silently added to or dropped from the roster. John A. Henricks (the plat signature's spelling; the crime…
Completeness statement: what was swept, what was not
Roster-level · built from Businesses's sources and closing gaps roll
Swept: Chapman (1880); Goodspeed (1893); Howard (1907); the 1875 atlas directory; the Polk gazetteer censuses of 1884–85 and 1916–17; the People leg whole; and the federal records the first leg used — the FDIC's institution and…