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Howard's biographies, 1907
Howard's 1907 county history shows North Liberty men inside the century's orders — without seating those orders here. Its biography of a North Liberty physician, Dr. Darling, records him as "a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows" — three affiliations for one townsman, and no lodge seat stated for any of them. Other biographies in the same volume seat their subjects' lodges in Walkerton (Masonic Lodge No. 619; Knights of Pythias Castle Hall Lodge No. 263), which is the pattern this section respects: in 1907 a North Liberty man could belong to the Odd Fellows or the Pythians through a neighbouring town's lodge, and the record reached does not seat an Odd Fellows lodge or a Pythian castle in North Liberty itself. Whether either order later chartered here is a named gap, its settlers the Indiana grand lodge and grand encampment proceedings. Later orders at pointer size: the Lions — a service club, not a secret order — are attested in town (North Liberty Lions Club, in the same Palmer record), and no Moose or Eagles aerie was found seated here.