The directory of 1882–83 — Polk's entry transcribed whole

1882–83 · POLK'S INDIANA STATE GAZETTEER, VOL. II, PP. 798–799

Polk's first canvass of the town, two years after Chapman, counts eighty-odd names and the town's first factories. The header reads: "WALKERTON. Is a prosperous, thrifty town of 800 inhabitants, located in Lincoln township, St. Joseph county, on Pine creek at crossing of I., P. & C. Div. of the W., St. L. & P. and B. & O. R. R's., 20 miles southwest of South Bend court house and 29 southeast of Michigan City. This is the location of 4 churches — Methodist, Catholic, Baptist and Seventh Day Adventists — 1 graded school of 4 departments, 2 hotels, 1 public hall, 1 flour mill, 2 barrel hoop factories, 1 flour mill [the phrase stands doubled in the text] and several substantial business and professional firms. Plymouth is location of nearest bank. The press is represented by the Visitor and Republican. The former was the first paper established here, has a good circulation and is ably edited. Grain, wool and lumber comprise the chief exports. Ex. B. & O. and U. S. Stage, daily to North Liberty, and tri-weekly to South Bend. C. W. N. Stephens, postmaster." The bank line is the gazetteer's own: in 1882 the nearest bank to Walkerton was at Plymouth, in Marshall County.

The listings, in the directory's order: Arlington J W, drugs and physician; Barkley Abraham B, grocer and restaurant; Baugher Adam, carriagemaker; Beall Brenton H, lawyer; Beall Bros, clothing; Behrens Clause [Claus], general store; Burger Michael R, blacksmith; Caudle William L, wagonmaker; Comer George W, justice; Cotton J Willis, Agricultural Implement and Sewing Machine Dealer; Courtright Horace P, hardware; Covert & Curtis, blacksmiths; Cunningham Andrew, Hardware, Farm Tools and Livery; Daily William A, lawyer; Endly James F, physician; Endly Joseph, drugs; Endly J F Mrs, milliner; Ewing George D, photographer; Eveland Daniel M, editor and proprietor, Walkerton Republican; Florence House, J M B Giberson, propr; Gordon Edward, agt W., St. L. & P. R'y; Hostetter Henry W, live stock; Hudelmyer Samuel, grocer; Jackson John T, physician and dentist; Jones G W I, Livery, Sale and Feed Stable; Kern Clem J, general store; Lancaster Joshua, carpenter; Leibold Ernst, carpenter and manufacturer; Leiher & Thompson, manufacturers barrel hoops; Leroy Arthur S, harness manufacturer; Leslie George H, agt B. & O. R'y; Libbey Cornelius B, watchmaker; McCamber H N, dentist; McCool Amos W, physician and drugs; Marks Charles, barber; Marks Hattie Mrs, carpet weaver; Mintle H S, propr Walkerton Visitor; Morehouse Cyrus, shoemaker; Nicoles Samuel J, justice; Puffenberger I, physician; Quinn James, saloon; Reed James S, Restaurant and Hotel (rates, $1 per day); Richmond Charles M, physician and drugs; Robbins Henry, lawyer; Roderick Daniel J, justice; Rogers & Son, flour mill; Ruple Jacob, harness; Schwartz & Tischer, Planing Mill, manufacturers of sash, door, blinds, etc., dealers in iron roofing, etc.; Smith J C, notions; Smith Michael F, physician; Smith Sarah L Mrs, milliner; Snell & Simmons, meat market; Stephens C W N, general store; Stephens G S, painter; Stevenson Amos H, justice; Stowe Dennis L, barber; Taylor Jacob, restaurant; Thompson Noah, meat market; Thompson Perry, saloon; Vincent A E, meat market; Vincent B H & E J, furniture and undertakers; Walkerton Republican, D M Eveland, editor and propr; Walkerton Visitor, H S Mintle, propr; Wolfe M B Miss, milliner; Wolfe Thomas J, clothing; Wolfenberger John, saloon. Three display advertisements stand in the entry: Andrew Cunningham's — "General Dealer in Hardware, Agricultural Implements, Steam Engines, Threshers, Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, Etc. Livery, Sale and Feed Stable"; the Visitor's — "a seven-column folio, with a circulation of 900… the leading paper of Walkerton"; and G. W. Jones's livery ("Good Rigs and Reasonable Prices"). Only one of the header's two barrel-hoop factories is named in the listings — Leiher & Thompson; the second hoop factory's proprietor is not given, and no name is printed for it here. The flour mill stands as Rogers & Son.

Sources:

1. Polk, Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1882–83, vol. II, Walkerton entry, pp. 798–799, read whole (LDS Genealogy transcription; archive.org page images the settler for garbled readings, e.g. "Jones G W I" against 1884's "G W J").