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PEO-9 MIXED · 38 NAMES AT SKETCH STRENGTH; THE ATLAS DIRECTORY STANDS AS RESIDUE
The checklist asks for the long tail carried past sixty names; Chapman's biographical sketches, read whole, carry the roll to thirty-eight at a line apiece — the township's working population of 1880, named. The law and the press: B. H. Beall, attorney and notary, once a Methodist itinerant; Dr. James F. Endly, who came in 1875 to a drug store and a practice and founded two newspapers (carried at depth in the banked newspapers record); Henry S. Mintle of the Visitor, first number May 5, 1875 by his own sketch (Howard prints April 7 — the divergence is a delta candidate); Rev. H. N. Macomber, an itinerant turned dentist; Rev. R. H. Sanders, the Methodist pastor of 1879 who built churches at Union Mills, Winamac, North Liberty, and Maple Grove. The counter and the craft: Abraham Barkley, drugs and groceries, arrived 1872 with dentistry studied; John Cotton, wagon- and carriage-maker; C. B. Libbey, jeweler, arrived 1871, late of Company B, 48th Indiana; John Schwartz of Schwartz & Tischer, Walkerton Planing Mills; U. F. Townsend, shoemaker, arrived 1870; E. J. Vincent of B. H. & E. J. Vincent, furniture and undertakers, opened fall 1876 on $3,000 of stock; W. C. Hale and J. N. Reece, meat merchants (Reece once principal of North Liberty's schools); John J. Miller, proprietor of the Walkerton–South Bend stage line from June 7, 1878, three trips a week, six in the morning to six at night; Isaiah Poffenberger, physician and surgeon. The houses of rest: J. M. B. Giberson, who kept the Walkerton Hotel from 1863 and built the Florence House in 1875; John W. Kirtsinger of the Empire House; Wm. W. Hamilton of the Walkerton Livery Stable, late of Company C, 30th Indiana. The land: Allen Beall, 240 acres; William Bellinger, section 17, 120 acres at $75; Benjamin Eager, 156 acres; Benjamin F. Rinehart, 220 acres; Philo E. Ruggles; John Smith, settled 1852; Neely Frame, born 1809, in the county from 1830, the township's first justice of the peace on 140 acres in section 13; Thos. H. Wiley, the second settler of the township's own sequence. The Cripes, a family in force: John Cripe, born at Fort Wayne October 11, 1826, whose father Rinehart bought some thousand acres of Lincoln Township in the spring of 1836 and lost a steam saw-mill venture; Tobias Cripe, born 1837, whose father "broke the land of the first lot in South Bend"; William Cripe, born 1849 — the brothers Oregon in 1847–48, California in 1850, and home again by 1852, a whole frontier generation in one township family. The residue to sixty stands named: the 1875 illustrated atlas's Lincoln Township directory (pp. 99–102) and the Goodspeed 1893 sketches were located but not read whole in this section, and they are the settlers for the roll's completion; Jacob Bender, J. B. Turner, and Jacob C. Fulmer (arrived October 1853) are carried at fuller strength in the arts and founder articles of this wave and are counted here once, by reference.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880), History of St. Joseph County, Lincoln Township biographical sketches, pp. 735–750 (read whole).