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“We should always bear in mind that Mishawaka should be a distinct and separate community with its own inspiration,” wrote Vincent Brunner, the city historian, in his manuscript Mishawaka, Its Rise and Progress. Brunner was born in 1862, immigrated from Switzerland at age 5, and spent the rest of his life in Mishawaka. For decades, he gathered stories and clippings about the history of Mishawaka up to its centennial celebration in 1932 and wrote 137 essays that comprised the book.