The long tail at full count: the second-rank register, name by name

Counted by method, November 2026 · 98 names beyond the banked file's family articles, each with its date and its one carrying fact

How the count is made: the audit's floor was sixty named entries beyond the profiles Notable People already carries. Where a sweep found the name only inside another family's sketch, the entry says so; where it found nothing, that is printed too, at the end. Spelling and dating conflicts stand as the books print them.

The township's hands and trades. Peter W. Ipes — "Blacksmithing," of Mahoning County, Ohio, settled 1859, the one working blacksmith the 1875 Penn roll names outright. Andrew Taylor — "Blacksmith and Wagon Maker," of Scotland, settled 1839; his post-office cell is lost in the directory transcription, so his township seat is probable, not provable, and is printed as such. Wolfgang Kunftman (b. Germany, 9 June 1828 – 7 November 1877) — apprenticed lock-maker at fourteen, foreman at the St. Joseph Iron Works from 1853, removed 1868 to a section 7 farm. Frederick Lang (b. Germany, 9 May 1834) — erected a saw-mill in 1864 and still ran it in 1880, with a Mishawaka lumber yard; the directory's 1841 settlement date stands against Chapman's 1850 emigration, flagged in the banked file. Charles F. Shinn — brought a portable saw-mill to section 31 in 1870, ran it to 1879, sold to W. Cook. John L. Dayhuff — wells, cisterns and pump sales from 1864. John Boles (b. Wayne County, Ohio, 22 November 1826) — carpenter eighteen years, drove an ox team to California in 1859 and back in 1860, farmed section 17 on 140 acres. James Boles — his father, listed separately in the 1875 directory under the Osceola post office, section 16, settled 1853. Silvanus Hall (b. Maine, 16 July 1815) — blacksmith three years and Ohio-and-Mississippi boatman three years before removing to this township in 1845. William Harris — kept travelers on the Mishawaka–Elkhart road from 1854. Peter Hendershott (d. July 1874) — carpenter, bought his township farm 1857; his son William M. Hendershott worked the home place after him.

The farm roll, first rank of the second rank. Henry Burket (b. Elkhart County, 19 March 1833) — section 32, 90 acres, farmer and German Baptist minister; his daughter Sarah A. Burket married Oliver P. Rogers (19 April 1883), the marriage that ties the Burket sketch into the Rogers line. Robert H. Crooks — section 28, 200 acres, a $1,200 barn and a $2,000 house; married Emily Vesey in 1860. Jacob Eby (b. Waterloo County, Ontario, 18 October 1816) — section 4, 282 acres, eight children named. Elom Eller (b. Miami County, Ohio, 14 September 1826) — came with his parents in 1831, section 29, 250 acres; Howard's peppermint passage makes "Elam Eller" probably Indiana's first peppermint grower — Elom in Chapman, Elam in Howard, the same man on the record's shape, spellings both printed. John Ernst (b. Baden, 14 February 1835) — Canada 1840, this county 1862, section 27. Jacob M. Galor (b. Rensselaer County, N.Y., 5 August 1809) — came 1835, "drove the first wagon south of Mishawaka into the heavy timber," collier for the Mishawaka blast furnace, charter member of the First Baptist Church of Penn Township in 1837; his son Albert Gaylor — Chapman notes the father "omits the y" — was Penn Township Trustee when Chapman published. Aaron Hoover — came 1834, farmer and stock-raiser, retired January 1869 to Mishawaka. A. F. Kizer — section 28, from Wayne County, Ohio, 1852. Michael Klein (b. Prussia, 29 September 1818) — New Orleans five years, then Stark County, Ohio, to this county in the fall of 1841. Chauncey W. Lamport (b. Genesee County, N.Y., 1 April 1814) — "now retired, resides in Osceola," one of the few sketches Chapman seats in the village itself. Philip Manchester — section 4, 201 acres, of the Old-Side Baptist belief. John McKnight — on all three settler lists, entered about 600 acres about 1833–34 (the two datings stand), raised eight children in a one-room log cabin, d. 1840; his sons James McKnight (section 11, 267 acres, butchered in fall and latterly lent money) and Milton McKnight (the homestead, section 11) carry the name a generation on. Jacob Meixell (b. Cumberland County, Pa., 12 May 1816; came 1848; 150 acres, farms given to his children) and his son Lawrence Meixell (section 35), who married Jane Smyser, Cornelius Smyser's daughter. Adam Miller (b. near Zanesville, Ohio, 8 January 1819) — section 25, parents to this county 1830, schooled in a log house under teachers of "ox-gad persuasion." Joseph Miller — miller by trade; with William Miller purchased the Mishawaka Mills in 1876, a Mishawaka mill and a Penn-listed man, boundary noted. Jacob Minnick — worked by the month at $7, harvest days at 50 cents; removed 1849 to section 33, 170 acres and 60 given to a son. John Monroe — section 6, 180 acres, from Columbiana County, Ohio, October 1850. Jacob Rhoads — section 8. Samuel Ritter — brought to this county in May 1832, about nine years of age, a settler of the township's organization year itself; 116 acres at $100 the acre; of the Penn Township Grange. John Robbins — came 1835, 160 acres. Cornelius Smyser (b. Adams County, Pa., 20 December 1820) — schooled with the Studebaker brothers; came 1852 in Chapman, 1854 in the directory, both printed. John Squires — section 6, came 1831, twenty years in the lumber business. Daniel Vrooman (b. Schoharie County, N.Y., 11 March 1811) — a molder; first came 1832, removed for good 1845; section 17 in Chapman, section 15 in the directory, flagged. Christian Weis (b. Berne, Germany, 1803; emigrated 1831; to this county 1847; 385 acres; d. 17 September 1876) and his son Henry Weis (b. in this township, 26 February 1847; section 28), whose daughter Mary Ann married John H. Fulmer.

The Howard generation's second rank. John W. Leonard (b. Wayne County, Ohio, 18 October 1821) — emigrated 1848, took up his Penn homestead of 200 acres in 1849 with less than $100, held an Andrew Jackson-era deed Howard prints without explaining, and sat in the Osceola Methodist Episcopal church. Wesley Leonard — the directory's Osceola post-office entry (section 16, Wayne County, Ohio, settled 1848); his relation to John W. is stated nowhere and the two are not merged. Thomas Elder (b. Portage Township, 12 September 1855) — son of William Elder (b. Scotland, 1827; built the Elder homestead in section 18 to 150 acres; d. at 74); Thomas carpentered twenty years in the West, returned 1898, taught school two winter seasons in Warren Township, married Sadie Fourtner in 1905. Alfred Ferris (b. in this township, 16 October 1856) — son of Lewis Ferris, whose 120-acre homestead was taken up in 1852, and of Mary (Crain) Ferris (b. Chautauqua County, N.Y., 26 September 1826), herself "numbered among the successful educators of the county." John M. Wommer — retired on section 10, came 1868 onto a farm then of 320 acres, nine children; his father Jacob was that line's blacksmith, and the son is not made the smith here. John H. Parett (b. in this township, 31 August 1848), son of William Parett — married Annis Moon, Solomon Moon's daughter, in 1873, and located in 1879 on 60 acres, adding 75. James E. Jennings (b. Clay Township, 19 September 1876) — a young agriculturist of section 5, grandson of Samuel R.James Boner (b. Mahoning County, Ohio, 15 May 1833), son of Andrew Boner, a native of Ireland — came about 1858, enlisted 1863 in Company K, Fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry (as printed), bought and cleared 135 acres.

The surname sweeps, reported as run. Vesey — the sweep recovers the family whole inside other men's sketches, and no standalone Vesey sketch: George Vesey and his wife Olive (Graham) Vesey, "long numbered among the leading residents of Penn township" (Howard, vol. 2, in the Eutzler sketch, part 59 as transcribed); their daughter Anna Vesey married George Eutzler on 6 April 1853; Emily Vesey married Robert H. Crooks in 1860; Roxey R. (Vesey) Eberhart married Frederick G. Eberhart, and their son George F. Eberhart was born in Penn Township 8 November 1868 (Howard, part 33 as transcribed). The directory's W. B. Vesey (section 24, settled 1848) stands apart: no source read ties him to George's household, and he is not merged into it. Hollingshead — the sweep returns the family inside the Moon and Eutzler sketches only, and no standalone Howard vol. 2 Hollingshead sketch was located in the parts searched: Daniel Hollingshead (b. Kentucky; brought the family about 1832; entered a government farm where there were "no mills — obliged to pound their corn into flour"; d. at 73); his brothers David Hollingshead (directory: section 23, settled 1832) and William and George Hollingshead of the settler lists; Joseph Hollingshead (directory: section 5, settled 1832), a fifth name whose relation is unstated and unassigned; Elizabeth Hollingshead, who married George E. Eutzler in Ohio — Chapman spells her name Holmeshead in the son's sketch, Howard Hollingshead in the father's, both printed; and Charlotte Hollingshead (b. Ohio, 31 October 1831, youngest of ten), who married Solomon Moon — 26 June 1861 in Chapman, 26 June 1851 in Howard, the conflict banked whole in Notable People and not re-litigated here. Pulling — the sweep sharpens the banked conflict without settling it: Howard makes Cyrus K. Pulling "one of the earliest pioneers" and father of Henrietta Pulling, who married Edwin C. Laidlaw on 25 February 1876; Chapman's Penn farmer of section 8 is Charles K. Pulling (b. Monmouth County, New Jersey, 15 May 1811; came 1853; 235 acres; sons George and John soldiers in the late war). Charles and Cyrus are not merged; whether the books name one man twice wrong or two men stands unsettled, settler the archive.org page images of both sketches. Huston — Harrison Huston, "early settler," is named in his son-in-law Lee D. Fulmer's line (Howard, in the Jacob Fulmer sketch): his daughter Eva Huston married Lee Fulmer on 28 September 1893. Harrison Huston's own Howard sketch, cited inside that line, was not located's sweeps either — it stands as a named gap inside this register, settler the archive.org page images of Howard vol. 2 read whole. Burket and Smyser — no standalone Howard vol. 2 sketch under either surname was located in the parts searched; both families stand at their Chapman strength above (Henry Burket; Cornelius Smyser; Jane Smyser Meixell), and the sweeps are printed as run, not as proof none exists — the volume's untranscribed parts are the settler.

The directory's remaining Osceola names. William Griffitts (section 17, Burlington County, New Jersey, settled 1846) and Mrs. E. Griffitts (section 8, housekeeper, settled 1861) — plausibly Dr. Batchelder's second wife Eliza, suggested in the banked file and stated in neither source. S. P. Tell (section 28, Union County, Ohio, settled 1833). C. C. Weager (farmer, Pennsylvania, settled 1855). D. J. Wilson (section 9, Ohio, year lost in transcription). John Wolf (section 21, Germany, settled 1857). Isaac Ghrist (section 1, settled 1853 — a Tamarack Methodist charter member in Chapman's church list). John Heiss (section 18, settled 1834). Charles Sumstine (section 9, settled 1835). With the family articles' own second rank — Edmund and George V. Byrkit, James, Alex. and Edwin Curtis, Samuel, Samuel the younger and Daniel Judie, Jacob Fulmer and his sons John H. and Lee D., Henry Crofoot, Aaron and Oliver P. Rogers, John Laidlaw and his sons Alexander and Edwin C., Nelson, Solomon, William and George E. Moon, S. I. H. Ireland, Zelotes and William Bancroft — pointed to, not re-entered, the long tail of this township stands at well over the audit's floor, and a name counted twice would be a defect of exactly the kind this section's discipline exists to prevent.

Sources:

1. Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), Penn Township sketches, pp. 802–841, and Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 800–802, 857–858, 927–937 —'s settler-roll, Howard-generation and family articles, which this register reorganizes and does not re-tell.
2. Howard, vol. Eberhart; the Vesey marriage), part 45 (John A. Byers, carried in the professions article below), part 59 (George Eutzler; George and Olive (Graham) Vesey), and surname searches on Vesey, Hollingshead, Huston, Pulling, Burket and Smyser across the volume's transcribed parts, reported as run.
3. 1875 Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County (Higgins, Belden & Co.), directory pp. 60, 76, 84 — the Osceola post-office and sectioned entries, counted by the banked file's stated method.