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1880 · each at the size Chapman's sketch carries
John Boles (pp. 802–803), P.O. Osceola: b. Wayne County, Ohio, 22 November 1826, son of James and Jane (Lawrence) Boles; came to the county 1844 (the directory says 1845 — flagged), a carpenter for eighteen years; drove an ox team to California in 1859 and returned in 1860; farmed section 17 on 140 acres; m. Mary Smith 1867. The directory lists his father James Boles separately under the Osceola post office, section 16, settled 1853 — father and son as two entries, both in the directory article below. Dr. Stephen J. Batchelder (pp. 802–803): b. Clinton County, N.Y., 21 November 1833; a saw crippled his hand in an Iowa saw-mill and turned him to medicine; graduated Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1856; came to Osceola in March 1869 and practiced ten years (one year in California excepted) before removing to Mishawaka in April 1879 — the village's resident physician of the 1870s; the transcription credits him and his wife with "1423 acres" in Penn Township, a figure that reads as a layer error for 142½ and is flagged for the page image, not printed as fact; his second wife (1876) was Mrs. Eliza Griffitts, plausibly the directory's "Griffitts, Mrs. E." of section 8 — suggested, stated in neither source. Henry Burket (p. 804): b. Elkhart County 19 March 1833; section 32, 90 acres; German Baptist — Howard adds "farmer and German Baptist minister." Robert H. Crooks (p. 807): section 28, 200 acres, a $1,200 barn and a $2,000 house; m. Emily Vesey 1860. John L. Dayhuff (p. 808): wells, cisterns and pump sales from 1864. The Eberharts (pp. 808–809): A. Eberhart (b. 4 February 1821) and his brother John H. Eberhart (b. Yates County, N.Y., 8 October 1825), who came with their parents in 1836 — the family started for Illinois and stopped because John took sick — and held interests in Mishawaka's Ripple Mills; their ground adjoins the township's first prairie, Moat's Prairie being "now the Eberhart Farm" on the town page. Jacob Eby (p. 809): b. Waterloo County, Ontario, 18 October 1816; section 4, 282 acres; eight children named. Elom Eller (p. 810): b. Miami County, Ohio, 14 September 1826; came with his parents to this township in 1831; section 29, 250 acres. Howard's peppermint passage quotes the Indianapolis News (13 October 1906) that "probably the first Indiana grower being Elam Eller, of St. Joseph county" — Elom in Chapman, Elam in Howard, the same man on the record's shape, the spelling difference printed and the peppermint whole owned by the Farms leg. John Ernst (p. 810): b. Baden 14 February 1835; Canada 1840; this county 1862; section 27. Jacob M. Galor (pp. 814–815): b. Rensselaer County, N.Y., 5 August 1809; came to this county in 1835 and "drove the first wagon south of Mishawaka into the heavy timber"; a collier for the Mishawaka blast furnace; a charter member of the First Baptist Church of Penn Township in 1837. His son Albert Gaylor (p. 815) — Chapman himself notes the father "omits the y in spelling his name" — farmed until 1874, then kept a Mishawaka grocery; he was Penn Township Trustee when Chapman published, the one township officeholder Chapman names in the sketches, carried here at pointer size to the Government leg. Silvanus Hall (p. 816): b. Maine 16 July 1815; blacksmith three years and Ohio-and-Mississippi boatman three years before removing to this township in 1845 (directory: 1846); section 5 farmer and stock-raiser. William Harris (pp. 816–817): kept travelers on the Mishawaka–Elkhart road from 1854; married three times, the first two wives sisters (Loretta and Priscilla Hall). Peter Hendershott (p. 817, dec.): carpenter, to the county 1852, bought his township farm 1857, d. July 1874; his son William M. Hendershott worked the home place. Aaron Hoover (p. 818): came to this county 1834; farmer and stock-raiser, retired January 1869, residing in Mishawaka; buried two wives and married a fourth.
Sources:
- Chapman, Penn Township sketches, pp. 802–818, as cited per entry; 1875 Atlas directory for the flagged comparisons.