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Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907 — two volumes
What it is: Timothy Edward Howard (1837–1916), A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, two volumes, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 — volume 2 alone runs to 1,158 pages in the New York Public Library's copy. Howard was not a hired compiler: he was a South Bend lawyer, a former justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, and a man who had lived in the county through most of the period his second volume covers. The Indiana Magazine of History noticed the book in 1908, in a review by Demarchus C. Brown.
Its standing, from this build's experience: Howard is the shelf's participant. His second volume's military chapter carries an 1832 Black Hawk War recollection from a participant's memory; the reminiscences at volume 1, pages 143–151, are the county's own tale stock, gathered by a man who knew the tellers; his sixteenth section is the Story of South Bend section of the Banks leg's antebellum account; his line for the Michigan Road's course is the one the Corridors leg tested against the ground. That is the book's strength and its limit in one: memory recorded by a participant is evidence of the first rank for what the county believed and roughly for what happened, and it is still memory — seventy years deep in the Black Hawk case — where it stands alone. This history prints Howard's recollections as recollections.
Where it fails: mostly by this build's unfinished business rather than the book's.
Sources:
- Catalog record of the 1907 edition (Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York; two volumes), Google Books, from the New York Public Library copy.
- Indiana Magazine of History (1908), review of Howard's history by Demarchus C. Brown.