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Goodspeed Brothers, Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties (Chicago, 1893), 786 pp.; ISL County History Holdings Guide
Goodspeed's 1893 memoirs cover St. Joseph County but carry no township narrative at all: the book is biographies end to end, so whatever Clay Township matter it holds sits inside individual sketches, findable only through the printed biographical indexes — a portrait layer between Chapman and Howard, not a history of the place. Of the later county narratives the State Library's guide lists, three postdate Howard: John Bernard Stoll, An Account of St. Joseph County from its Organization (1923) — the only county narrative written after Roseland's incorporation, and so the only one that could treat the town as a town; the Schuyler Colfax Chapter DAR's Historic Background of South Bend and St. Joseph County (1927; Bicentennial souvenir edition 1974); and Mary Suter's 150 Years of Progress… Michiana (c. 1980). None was paged for Roseland in this build — all three are closed-stacks print — and their Roseland yield stands as a named gap (G-SRC-1) rather than an assumption. No published Clay Township history exists in the record reached: the township-history genre is represented in this county by Harris Township's (1980), not Clay's.