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1837 – 1867
The town's commerce opens with one general store and a thirty-year succession of four keepers. Daniel Antrim opened the first store, general merchandise, in 1837. He sold the stock to E. S. Reynolds in 1838; Reynolds sold to A. P. Richardson in 1840; Richardson sold to James Harvey about 1845, who ran it as a general store. The nomination compresses the chain's end: the store "continued in operation until 1867" and was "the only significant commercial enterprise in town until after the Civil War." No carrier reached in any pass gives the full names behind the initials E. S. Reynolds or A. P. Richardson — a named gap, its settlers the 1840 census for Liberty Township and Chapman's Liberty narrative at page-image strength. And the line leaves no directory trace after its close: no Antrim, Reynolds, Richardson, or Harvey appears in the 1875 atlas's Liberty directory, read whole — consistent with the store having ended before 1875, eight years after the nomination's closing date.