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1890 – 1909
Henry B. Worster — H. B. Worster & Son, general store, Worster Building, 100 N. Main (built the building 1892 to house a general store; operated it as H. B. Worster and Son in the early 1900s; the firm's full Polk form stands in band 4).
James Worster — the son in H. B. Worster & Son (named in full only in Polk 1916–17 — "Henry B and James" — cross-referenced here so the succession sits on the firm's own line).
Dell M. Woodward — founder and editor-proprietor, North Liberty News (Howard: founded 23 March 1895; CONFLICT: his own Howard biography dates the first appearance 23 March 1905; the LCCN run 1895–1962 supports 1895; both printed). The people leg adds his plant address: office 137 N. Main Street.
Philip Schlosser — Schlosser Brothers, creamery (the firm bought the North Liberty creamery in 1895; the biographical tradition records Philip Schlosser drowned at North Liberty in January 1901). The brothers as individuals are otherwise unnamed for this plant; its 1916 manager stands in band 4.
Louis G. Finch — Louis G. Finch & Company, furniture store, Finch Block north storefront (1909 and 1917, nomination). The Finch name also stands behind Finch Bros, grain and feed (band 4); no carrier states the firms' exact relation.
Lewis S. Aukerman — livery business, North Liberty (Howard's 1907 biographies via the people leg: after plastering, livery, confectionery, and horse trading elsewhere, and two years farming, he took up his abode in North Liberty about 1900 and ran a livery here — fifteen horses, sixteen vehicles — alongside the Knox, Indiana stable he acquired 19 March 1906; his whole course prints in the businesses file).
Oba Aukerman — associated in the North Liberty livery (his father's Howard biography; a carpenter and joiner by trade). His brother Elzy ran the Knox livery — Starke County ground, pointer only, not counted here.
The band's thinness is the record's, not the sweep's: no Polk edition between 1884–85 and 1916–17 was read in any pass, so this band rests on the nomination, Howard, and the Schlosser carrier alone. The unread directory years are named in the completeness article below.