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1880 · 1907
The town's founding texts are two county histories, and their North Liberty chapters are the first books this section can name. The Chapman company's History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880) carries the town at page 719 — the source of the 1837 laying-out date and of the trades census the Story of North Liberty section quotes: two dry-goods establishments, the planing mill, the gristmill, the millinery store, the physicians, and the town's standing complaint about its lack of a railroad. Timothy Edward Howard's A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Lewis Publishing, 1907) carries the town at page 281 and the township's organisation whole — the source of the 1836 date and of much of this build's frame. Neither man was of North Liberty; both wrote it. Under this section's discipline the historians of the city count as authors in their own right, first — and for this town they are also, at book length, nearly the whole of it.