The historians, as authors

1880–1923 · THE SHELF THAT SOURCES KEEPS

In brief. The men and women who wrote this city's history are entered as sources, with their books' standing weighed, in Sources, and they are not re-weighed here. As authors they belong on this page in one paragraph each. The 1880 county history that bears Chas. C. Chapman & Co.'s name was a Chicago subscription house's production — the first full history of the county, written by the trade's method. Timothy Edward Howard (1837–1916), the South Bend lawyer and former Indiana Supreme Court justice, wrote the shelf's participant history, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Lewis Publishing Co., two volumes, 1907) — a resident's book by a man who had lived much of what his second volume covers. Anderson & Cooley compiled the city's turn-of-the-century who's-who, South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It (Tribune Printing Co., 1901). John B. Stoll, the newspaper proprietor of the Times line, wrote the third county history, An Account of St. Joseph County (1923). And Edythe J. Brown, the shelf's schoolteacher, compiled and edited The Story of South Bend (South Bend Vocational School Press, 1920), a school-made civic history still read for its institutional chapters. The city's political class began as its press: John D. DeFrees, the printer who founded northern Indiana's first newspaper and sold the young Schuyler Colfax his start, and Colfax himself, editor of the St. Joseph Valley Register, stand as writers in People, where their profiles live.

Sources:

1. Sources (this record) — the book shelf: title pages and catalog records of Chapman (1880), Anderson & Cooley (1901), Howard (1907), Brown (1920), and Stoll (1923), with each book's standing from this build's reading of it.
2. People (this record) — DeFrees, the first printer, and Colfax, his apprentice turned editor.