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Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Chicago, 1880 · Liberty Township: pp. 718–732
Chapman's History of St. 718–732. The carrier read is the LDSGenealogy transcription of the Archive.org copy, and its standing warning prints here because it governs every spelling in the chapter: the transcription's text "was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors," with the full page images on Archive.org. The chapter's structure: narrative — township organization and settlement, then a North Liberty village section, churches, schools — occupies pp. 718–723; biographies run pp. 723–732, settler by settler: nativity, parentage, arrival year, section and acreage, offices, church, war service, marriages and children. What Chapman settled for this build is the Story of North Liberty section of its early record: first settlements in 1833 near North Liberty by John Kane, John and Jacob Earhart, and Isaac Townsend; the township's organization in May 1837; settlers riding to Elkhart to grind grain, waiting nearly a week; the 1837 gristmill with no builder named; the 1839 sawmill; the town laid out in 1837 by Daniel and James P. Antrim — his date and his proprietors, printed against Howard's different ones in the conflicts below; James Downey's first house; Daniel Antrim's first store of 1837 and the store succession whole through 1867; the Cole Brothers' planing mill of 1866, burnt in the winter of 1871, and the manufacturing succession after it; and the 1880 business census of the town entire — two large dry-goods establishments, two boot and shoe stores, a drug and hardware store, a grocery and hardware store, the planing-mill and manufacturing establishment, a grist-mill, a millinery store, a butcher shop, a barber, four practicing physicians, three churches and one school-house. The three churches he names, the five township churches he counts, the schools he dates, and the closing judgment he passes — "All the disadvantage that this place meets with is the lack of railroad facilities; but should a railroad be constructed through this place it would become one of the most flourishing towns in the county" — are dug in this build's religion, schools, and spine legs at their places. What Chapman is bad for prints as plainly: he is a subscription history, his biographies are his subscribers', and he contradicts himself inside his own chapter — his narrative dates John Rupel's arrival to January 1836, after the 1833 group; his sketch of David Rupel calls David the "second permanent settler," arrived May 1836; and his sketch of John N. Rupel calls his father John "the first settler in Liberty tp." All three statements stand in this build, unreconciled, because the book carries all three. His library test also prints: no library, reading room, or reading mention appears in the narrative, school, or church portions read — a tested negative for those portions only, the biographies having been read for settler value rather than exhaustively searched, with the full-text search named in the open-questions ledger as the settler for the whole chapter.