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1880–1907 · THE FARMS THE RECORD NAMES
Two Lincoln Township farms carry names in the record, and both stand in Howard. Isaac T. Snethen's homestead is the Walnut Lane Farm, 80 acres, "all under cultivation but ten" at Howard's writing — the improved farm at its finished state, in a sketch that also seats the township's depot commerce (his sister Mahala, Mrs. Robert Robinson, in charge of the Baltimore & Ohio's lunch room at Walkerton). The Smith homestead is Plain View Farm, 227 acres in Henry M. Smith's hands by 1907, grown from William Dare's 200-acre government entry (the first-farms article above) — the township's fullest single farm course: entry, ox-team marketing, the railroad's arrival across the farm itself, fire, and a named 227-acre homestead in the third generation of the record. The farm families behind the rolls stand at the same strength in the two county histories: the Fulmers, Wileys, Cripes (on the father's 1,000-acre purchase), Bealls, Frames, Rineharts, Rupels and Snethens of Chapman's sketches, and in Howard the Dares, Smiths, Places and Rosses — Samuel F. Ross's line running from a shoemaker's bench to the hardware house his son bought in 1897, farm trade and town trade in one family. Howard names Ira W. Place "a prominent agriculturist near Walkerton," of the La Porte County Place family whose implement-trading kinsman D. W. Place kept the South Bend house's Walkerton branch in 1916 — the Places print here at their farm and trade strength only; the name's township-office course is the Government file's, and its one court appearance the Businesses file's banks article records at depository strength.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2: Isaac T. Snethen sketch, pp. 946–947 (Walnut Lane Farm); Henry M. Smith sketch, pp. 948–950 (Plain View Farm; the Dare entry); George P. Ross sketch, pp. 945–946; the Ira W. Place notice in the Place family sketches.
- Chapman (1880), Lincoln Township sketches (the farm families of the 1880 roll).