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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 fragment's flat "Hendricks" is DELTA DF-19 and prints as that fragment's form) — the town's founder, and a proprietor of firms: dry goods with Coquillard, milling with Miller, and the presidency of the First National Bank of South Bend from 1869, which he helped organize at its November 30, 1863 opening. Disposition: absent from the owners roster, correctly — every firm named for him is a South Bend seat, and the roster carries Osceola-seat firms; the check states the reason rather than repairing the absence. His Chapman biography never mentions Osceola, which the People leg already prints. William C. Thrall — proprietor of the additions of April 24, 1856 and June 4, 1859. Disposition: a land proprietor, not a trading firm; the roster carries firms, and Thrall's proprietorship is carried whole in the Story of Osceola section/land record. Milton W. Stokes — surveyor of Thrall's additions. Disposition: a professional in the plat record, not a proprietor; he belongs to the survey record, not the roster. Every other founder or proprietor named in People with an Osceola-seat firm (the Bancrofts, Lang, Plumb, Eberhart, Moon, the Crull brothers, Lamport & Buck) appears in the roster or the censuses as banked; the cross-check found no fourth exception.
Sources: Notable People (banked: Henricks, Thrall, Stokes articles); Businesses owners roster (banked); DELTA DF-19.