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Spring 1837
The township's first election produced the build's first public servant, and Chapman names him with his office and his house. "The first election was held the same spring, in North Liberty, at the house of Jas. P. Antrim, who was elected Justice of the Peace" — Chapman's sentence, printed whole in the banked spine beside Howard's differing account of the township's organizing by commissioners' order of 2 May 1837. A justice of the peace in 1837 was the law at walking distance: marriages, small debts, warrants, the first rung of every court course in this build. The organizing company Chapman names with him — Daniel and James Antrim, John and David Rupel, Samuel Loring, James Cole, Jacob Rupel and Joseph Liggett — is the township's founding officer class at the size one sentence gives it, and no fuller roll of the township's nineteenth-century justices, trustees or constables was reached in any carrier; that succession stands as a named gap whose settler is the township's civil record and the county histories read at officer level.