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At line strength, the names no earlier article carries: Nathan W. Young — carried chain for the government surveyors and pre-empted land while the surveys were still running (Chapman, p. 790); Chapman's Penn narrative also calls him "the author of several useful inventions" that others patented and profited from, because he could not afford the patents — the township's inventor line, the Inventors leg's pointer and this band's most quietly remarkable man; a Michigan prairie (Young's Prairie) carries his name. Arno M. Holderread (b. 6 January 1921, Mishawaka) — a Church of the Brethren minister "elected to the ministry in Osceola in 1940 and ordained there in 1944" (Diehm's denominational history, 1963). Frances A. Seward (1917 – 22 August 2010) — of Osceola on her Tribune obituary; a career teacher who taught four years at Fulmer School in this township (and at Battell, Clay and Adams schools), took a master's in mathematics at Notre Dame, and was a past president of the Mishawaka Women's Club. Tom Mason — proprietor of the Tom Mason Printing Company of Osceola, above whose shop his son grew up; carried with its flag: he is known only from the artist Jay Mason's own biography (the unproven article), a self-source line, printed as such. The balance of the fame pass's nineteen-name long-tail roll — the Moats, Samuel and William Ireland, George West, Thomas Babcock, Henricks, Alpheus Ireland, Bancroft, Batchelder, William C. Smith, John Boles, Elder H. J. Eberhart — stand at full size in Band 1's articles and are pointed to, not re-entered; a name counted twice would be a defect of exactly the kind this section's discipline exists to prevent.
The empty chairs, stated: no Osceola newspaper editor was found — the town appears to have had no long-running paper of its own in the sources reached, Shively's South Bend ERA and Mishawaka's Enterprise being the print names that touch it; and no 19th- or 20th-century Osceola-practicing lawyer was found at line strength in the works read — a genuine gap, carried in the register, not a finding that none existed.
Sources:
- Chapman, pp. 790 (Young), 799 (Finch, via the church lists); Diehm, The Church of the Brethren in Northeastern Ohio (1963), for Holderread; the Tribune obituary of Frances Seward; jaymasonart.com for Tom Mason, flagged as self-source.