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Founders & CEOs — North Liberty
North Liberty's founders were storekeepers and millwrights, and its chiefs have mostly been the owners of the houses they ran.
The town's founders as company founders: Antrim's store, the Coles' works
1837 – into the twentieth century
Daniel Antrim, who laid out the town, also opened its first store — the founding of the place and the founding of its trade are one act. The businesses leg carries the succession whole: the first store, from 1837, passing Antrim…
The founding bankers as a roll; the modern chiefs tested
1916–17 – November 2026
The town's bankers enter this section as founders and chiefs in their own right. The North Liberty State Bank's documented officers — Isaac Reamer, president, and A. C. Steele, cashier, in the 1916–17 Polk gazetteer (banks leg) …
Founders and CEOs: Open Questions
The close, November 2026
Women and minority founders were swept as a test, and the test returns the record's silence. No woman or minority founder of a North Liberty enterprise was found named in the sources reached — the millinery store of 1880, whose…