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1831 – present
George W. Matthews: Colfax's stepfather; his election as St. Joseph County auditor in 1841 brought the family to South Bend and made his stepson his deputy — the first office of the future vice president.
A. W. West: Colfax's partner in the September 1845 purchase of the Free Press, renamed the St. Joseph Valley Register; the record reached gives the partnership and no more.
Samuel Hanna: the Fort Wayne merchant whose company, Samuel Hanna and Company, employed Lathrop Taylor to open the rival post of 1827; the bend's second founding was a Fort Wayne firm's branch plant.
Peter Johnson, William Howe, John P. Massey, and James A. Hendricks: with Horatio Chapin, the town's first board of trustees, elected 1835, as the 1901 city history of Anderson and Cooley names them.
George Milburn: the wagon maker who hired the seventeen-year-old J. D. Oliver as a bookkeeper on 1 July 1867 — the plow company's future president entered the trade through the wagon trade's door.
Bishop Joseph Dwenger: the Fort Wayne bishop who ordained Valentine Czyzewski on the date the parish history gives, 28 December 1876, and whose diocese held both of this history's cities.
The Rev. Thomas Carroll: the priest and alumnus whose 2,500-dollar gift funded Corby's Grotto in 1896; the Rev. Joseph Maguire, whose December 1953 letter to the university archivist corrected the Grotto's builder from Sorin to Corby and reset the record.
John Gill: the local contractor who built the Grotto in about three months in 1896, of fieldstone boulders gathered from the university's farm and its neighbors', surviving a collapse when the digging struck a natural spring.
Sources:
- Indiana Historical Society, Colfax papers guide, and the Before the City, Government, Notre Dame, Businesses, and Studebaker sections of this history (banked) — each name at the size its entry carries, as cited in the articles above.