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20 March 1857 – 14 March 1916 · born near Osceola
The tie, stated exactly: the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (member S000371): "born near Osceola, St. Joseph County, Ind., March 20, 1857" — the House's own history entry repeats the wording. The scholarly biography (Bartholomew, Indiana Magazine of History) gives the ground: "born… about a mile west of the little village of Osceola… near the bank of the St. Joseph River," the son of the Rev. The county's own road-namesakes page adds, in its looser wording, "born in Osceola Indiana in 1857," and that Shively Road is named for him; the Directory's "near Osceola" governs here.
The career: United States Representative from Indiana (1884–85, and again 1887–93) and United States Senator from Indiana (1909 until his death in 1916) — the only man of this town to sit in either chamber, on the official record. The county page also makes him proprietor of the South Bend ERA newspaper; he practiced and published in South Bend as an adult, and none of that moves the birth tie, which is the tie this band records. He died 14 March 1916, in office as a Senator. In a band built name by name from official sources, Shively is the summit — and, notably, the encyclopedia's town article does not mention him at all.
Sources:
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, S000371; U.S. House History, Art & Archives, entry 21598.
- Bartholomew, "The Political Career of Benjamin F. Shively," Indiana Magazine of History; St. Joseph County road-namesakes page (the ERA proprietorship and the road).