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SECTION 16, 1856 AND 1859 — ONE NAME IN THE PARCELS, ONE NAME NOWHERE
The town that exists grew in its additions, and the two additions divide sharply in the modern record: Howard's sentence governs (p. 310): "The town grew in its additions, rather than in the original plat … due to the building of the Lake Shore road further from the river than the original plat, through section sixteen instead of section nine." William C. Thrall's addition, platted 24 April 1856 on the east half of the northwest quarter of section 16, surveyed by Milton W. Stokes, is the first of them, and it is alive in the parcel record: 14 of the town's parcels carry Thrall's Addition in their descriptions, with lot numbers 19 to 22 among the samples — the founding addition of the real town, still describing ground south of the rails. Stokes's own addition, surveyed 4 June 1859, is the record's opposite case: zero parcels in the town carry the 1859 addition by name. The addition that shares its surveyor with the town's refounding left no descriptive trace in the county's modern parcel layer — whether its lots were replatted under later names, absorbed into descriptions the parse could not resolve, or carried under a form the instrument missed is a Recorder's-office question, named here as the finding's settler. The asymmetry prints as found: Thrall 14, Stokes 0.