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People — Roseland, Indiana
The register's frame — a township founding generation
The record as reached, Passes R-1 and R-2
Roseland's people begin before Roseland. A town incorporated in 1916 out of farm sections has its founding generation in the township's first-settler wave of 1829–1834 and its first public men in the township officers of 1840 …
Menzo Webster — the townsite section's first holder
1875 county atlas, Clay Township footnote (p. 62) and directory (p. 91); Howard (1907) I, p. 284
Menzo Webster came from Monroe County, New York, and settled in 1834 on Section 23, Township 38 North, Range 2 East — the section the town of Roseland now in part occupies. He is the first holder of the townsite ground the record…
Joseph and Stephen Ulery — the carding mill and the creek
1875 atlas footnote; Howard (1907) I, pp. 284–285, 288; Chapman (1880), p. 677
Joseph and Stephen Ulery settled in 1834 on Sections 24 and 35 — the section immediately east of the townsite and one in the township's south. Stephen is the brother the record follows: he ran a carding machine on the mill creek…
The Cripes — settlers, and the township's first pastors
Chapman (1880), pp. 679, 681; Howard (1907) I, p. 284; 1875 atlas footnote
John and Peter Cripe came in 1830 and settled Section 26, two sections east of the townsite. Peter's biography in Chapman is the fuller record: born in Ohio in 1824, son of John and Eva (Roof) Cripe, natives of Pennsylvania…
The McCombses — 1829, and a name the town still elects
Chapman (1880), pp. 680–681; Howard (1907) II, pp. 830–831; 1875 atlas footnote
The McCombs family is the township's longest thread into the town. Lambert McCombs and his wife Hannah (Hague) McCombs, natives of Pennsylvania, "came to this county July 5, 1829" — Chapman gives the day — first settling in…
Jacob Eaton — "the oldest permanent living settler"
Chapman (1880), pp. 679–680; 1875 atlas footnote and directory
Jacob Eaton was born in Maryland on 1 May 1819, son of Isaac and Margaret (Metzger) Eaton — his father a native of Virginia who died in the township 25 December 1869 aged ninety-four, his mother a Marylander who died 23 April…
Jonas Harris — the mill builder
Howard (1907) I, pp. 285–288 (the Lyon paper); Chapman (1880), pp. 676–677
Jonas Harris , "a Quaker from Richmond, Ind., who came to this county in 1832," designed and built the flouring mill on Section 23 in the winter of 1836–'37, engaging Burton Swearingen and Samuel Brooks as his millwright…
Samuel Brooks and Jonathan Hardy — the township's first officers
Chapman (1880), p. 675; Howard (1907) I, p. 288 (the Lyon paper)
The first public men of Clay Township were a millwright and his fellow justice. Samuel Brooks settled in the township before 1833, worked as a practical millwright — with Burton Swearingen he contracted to build Jonas Harris's…
Fred Ullery — the grocer of the founding vote
Town Code §11.01(B), the town's own record; the negative register as searched, Pass R-2
Fred Ullery is the one person the town's own founding record names, and he is named for one fact: " Voting on these issues took place in a grocery store owned by Fred Ullery " — the issues being the incorporation petition and the…
Ella Riffel — clerk-treasurer, flag designer, and the town's memory
Town Code §11.01(G); South Bend Tribune, 2005 and 2008, at index strength (ProQuest index carriers)
Ella Riffel holds three places in the town's record, each from a public carrier. In September 1976 she co-designed, with Dennis St. Germain, the town flag — an Indiana silhouette carrying the town's name and the year 1916 — which…
The officer lines as persons — the reached modern line
State Board of Accounts schedules; Public Access Counselor file; the official 2023 results; the town's 2024 documents (Pass R-1, government)
The town's officers print as persons, at the strength the public record names them. Council presidents reached: Dorothy Snyder (2006); Charles V. Shields (2007 — his council whole that year was Shields, president; Teddy Penn …