The business-owners roster: every owner the record names, era-banded

THE LEG'S APPARATUS · NAMES AT THE STRENGTH OF THEIR RECORDS

To 1869: the first sawmill's builder is unnamed in both county histories (the town history's William Ireland attribution prints unadopted, in the mills article); Zelotes Bancroft, miller (second mill, date uncertain; the 1856 mill with his brother); William Bancroft, the brother of 1856; John L. Dayhuff, wells, cisterns and pump sales (from 1864); Frederick Lang, sawmill (1864). 1870–89: Henry S. Plumb, general store (1870, stock $2,000); William C. Smith, grain dealer and railroad agent (agent from 1863; dealer in the 1884 census); Charles F. Shinn, portable sawmill (1870–79), sold to W. Cook; Chauncey W. Lamport, postmaster and senior partner, Lamport & Buck, general store (1884); A. Baker, blacksmith (1884); J. J. Brubaker, blacksmith (1884); E. Mandlin, saw mill (1884); A. Newsbaum, livestock (1884); Dr. W. A. Pierce, physician in practice (1884, carried here as a trade). 1890–1909: George F. Eberhart, general store (two years in the 1890s); George E. Moon, president, treasurer and salesman, Crystal Springs Creamery (by 1907). 1910–29: John Carroll, grocer (1916–17); the Crull brothers, general store and farm implements (1916–17); C. M. Curtis, grocer (1916–17); Charles Laughlin, hardware (1916–17); the Crystal Springs Creamery Co. as a listed company (1916–17). 1930–89: no owner is named for the town in any source — the band stands empty and prints as the record's thin place, not as a claim that no one traded; the gazetteers of those decades and the Tribune run are its settlers. 1990–present: the Osceola Business Association, extant by February 1996 (institution, officers unreached); Tim Martin and family, Crystal Springs Creamery (farm from 1996; creamery 2017– ), township ground; the proprietors of Hinges & Handles (100 Lincolnway E), S&H Auto Group (10599 McKinley Hwy), Michiana Auto Enterprises (10010 McKinley Hwy) and Pioneer Auto Sales (215 Lincolnway W) stand at directory and aggregator strength, their principals not named in the record reached. Undated: Tom Mason, proprietor of the Tom Mason Printing Company of Osceola — carried in People's unproven band on his son's self-published biography alone, and entered here at exactly that strength: a print shop is claimed for the town by one self-source, uncorroborated in any directory reached. The roster's discipline is this section's: an owner paired to a firm, at the record's strength, and no name completed by guess.