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Note: US Census
1870: 1st Ward, South Bend, PO South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
1880: at [2?] Michigan St., South Bend, St. Joseph Co., IN
1890:
1900: at 806 Leland Ave., South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
1910: at 605 Portage, South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
1920: at 605 Portage Ave., South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
1930:
1935: at 605 Portage, South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
1940: at 605 Portage, South Bend, Portage Twp., St. Joseph Co., IN
South Bend - World Famed - 1923? -- http://archive.org/stream/southbendworldfa00youn/southbendworldfa00youn_djvu.txt:
Mr. Richard Elbel is known throughout the State as the "Dean of South Bend Parks." He is the only charter member of the South Bend Park Commissioners, having served continuous ly and untiringly for twelve years. He and Col. Foster of Ft. Wayne, are the two men of longest continous service in Indiana. They serve without salary and Mr. Elbel has always insisted on paying his own traveling expenses also. He has been appointed by four different mayors elected
on different political tickets. Because of temperament, a life time training along artistic lines, he being a capable musician, his ability to serve and his sincere efforts to better the community and his fellow man have caused him to be recognized as indispensable to the city in the development of its park and boulevard system. In 1920, Mr. Elbel was elected President of the State Park Association and it was he who first conceived the idea of a beautiful boulevard system around the city. During the past twelve years he has spent countless hours of persistent effort in this behalf and has finally obtained link by link,
grants of land 100 to 200 feet wide from properly owners all the way from Leeper Park to the four mile bridge. Progress is now being made to grade this stretch for paving in the near future.
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