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1880 · each at the size Chapman's sketch carries
Aaron Jones (p. 820): b. German Township 9 September 1838, son of Samuel Jones, who came to the county in the spring of 1830; educated at Franklin College and Antioch College; 400 acres and more in the county and some 100 in Iowa, residing in Penn section 32; and master of the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry — Howard's longer sketch, partly garbled in transcription, adds that he was elected master in 1878 and held it twenty years except an interval of seven as county auditor (elected 1882, term expiring 1891); the clean re-read from page images stands in the closing register. A. F. Kizer (p. 821): section 28, from Wayne County, Ohio, 1852. Michael Klein (p. 821): b. Prussia 29 September 1818; New Orleans five years, then Stark County, Ohio; to this county in the fall of 1841 (the transcription's "1936" arrival in America is a layer error, flagged). Wolfgang Kunftman (pp. 821–822, dec.): b. "Byron," Germany, 9 June 1828; apprenticed lock-maker at fourteen; foreman at the St. Joseph Iron Works from 1853; removed in 1868 to a section 7 farm; d. 7 November 1877. Chauncey W. Lamport (pp. 822–823): b. Genesee (then Orleans) County, N.Y., 1 April 1814; married Adaline D. Barber in 1846 and started for this county a week after the wedding; of the Tamarack Methodist charter circle; "now retired, resides in Osceola" — one of the few sketches Chapman seats in the village itself; his children include a Methodist pastor (Hortensius M., of Bristol) and a high-school principal (A. Lamar, of Waterloo); the directory's "Lamport, A. B.," settled 1849, is not identified with him and not merged. The Methodist minister H. M. Lamport who was killed at the Osceola depot in 1892 stands in the fame band's negatives — an event at Osceola, not an Osceola man, and no relation to Chauncey is stated anywhere. Frederick Lang (p. 823): b. Germany 9 May 1834; erected a saw-mill in 1864 and still operated it in 1880, with a Mishawaka lumber yard (the directory prints his settlement as 1841 against Chapman's 1850 emigration — flagged). Levi W. Lott (p. 824): taught seven terms in the Willow Creek school-house and four in No. 9, a miller by trade besides — the Schools section owns his classroom whole; he stands here as the township's teacher of record. Philip Manchester (p. 825): section 4, 201 acres, of the Old-Side Baptist belief. The McKnights (pp. 827–828): John McKnight, on all three settler lists (atlas: about 1833, section 11; the sons' sketches: 1834 — flagged), entered about 600 acres and raised eight children in a one-room log cabin; he died in 1840, his wife Sarah in 1866; sons James (section 11, 267 acres, butchered in fall and latterly lent money) and Milton (the homestead, section 11) carry the name into the second generation. The Meixells (p. 828): Jacob (b. Cumberland County, Pa., 12 May 1816; came 1848; 150 acres, farms given to his children) and his son Lawrence (section 35), who married Jane Smyser, Cornelius Smyser's daughter. Adam Miller (p. 828): section 25; b. near Zanesville, Ohio, 8 January 1819, his parents removing to this county in 1830; schooled in a log house under teachers of "ox-gad persuasion." A Rev. Adam Miller was first pastor of the First Baptist Church of Penn Township (Chapman, p. 799): same name, plausibly the same man, stated in neither place — not merged. Joseph Miller (p. 828): miller by trade; with William Miller purchased the Mishawaka Mills in 1876 (225 barrels a day) — a Mishawaka mill, a Penn-listed man, boundary noted. Jacob Minnick (pp. 828–829): worked by the month at $7, harvest days at 50 cents; removed in 1849 to Penn section 33, 170 acres and 60 given to a son. John Monroe (p. 829): section 6, 180 acres, from Columbiana County, Ohio, October 1850. Geo. W. Redding (p. 835): "taught vocal music in St. Joseph county for 35 years," farming summers on section 18. Jacob Rhoads (p. 835): section 8. Samuel Ritter (pp. 835–836): "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 (p. 836): came 1835, 160 acres. Charles F. Shinn (p. 837): brought a portable saw-mill to section 31 in 1870, ran it to 1879, sold to W. Cook. John W. Smith (p. 837): see the Plumb article — the second Smith, unmerged. Cornelius Smyser (p. 838): b. Adams County, Pa., 20 December 1820, schooled with the Studebaker brothers; came 1852 (directory: 1854 — flagged). John Squires (pp. 838–839): section 6; came to this county in 1831 — Chapman agrees with the directory here — in the lumber business twenty years; his Fort Stephenson telling stands in the Wars file whole, with its impossibility flagged there and not repeated as fact here. Daniel Vrooman (p. 840): b. Schoharie County, N.Y., 11 March 1811; a molder; first came in 1832, returned, removed for good in 1845; section 17 in Chapman, section 15 in the directory — flagged. The Weises (pp. 840–841): Christian Weis (b. Berne, Germany, 1803; emigrated 1831; to this county 1847; 385 acres; d. 17 September 1876) and his son Henry (b. in this township 26 February 1847; section 28), whose daughter Mary Ann married John H. Fulmer — the township's families knitting, as the sketches keep showing.
The boundary count: Chapman's Penn run (pp. 802–841) interleaves some fifty Mishawaka-city sketches — physicians, lawyers, manufacturers, the Bingham and Jernegan entries the Wars file meets at its boundary — which this section counts (63 Chapman entries in all were worked for this band, Henricks's county sketch included) but does not transcribe; they are Mishawaka's people, in Mishawaka's build.
Sources:
- Chapman, Penn Township sketches, pp. 820–841, as cited per entry; Howard, vol. 2, pp. 857–858 (Aaron Jones, garbled in transcription — flagged).