Two men made their fortunes in Newbury Township on either side of the road that is now State Road 5.
Hezekiah Davis, on the east side, came in 1836 as a boy and built up more than fourteen hundred acres.
Abraham Summey, on the west side, was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1827, went to Wayne County, Ohio, at ten, and came to Newbury Township at twenty-four, in 1851, with $280. He bought 80 acres, added 100 more, sold the lot in 1866 for $8,400, and bought the 572-acre farm he kept for the rest of his life. The 1882 county history records him as a German Baptist and a Republican who raised fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars of stock a year, and says his education was principally self-acquired. In the autumn of 1854 the Dunkards, as the German Baptists were called, held their first meeting in the township in his house.
Two men, two fortunes made out of the same township, on opposite sides of one street.
The 1882 history gives each man a biography, a few pages apart in the same volume. Neither mentions the other, and neither mentions a town. In 1882 there was no Shipshewana to mention.