Howard (1907): The Judge's History, Read Whole — and a Citation Corrected

Timothy Edward Howard, Lewis Publishing Co., 1907 · Vol. 1

The correction first, because a sources leg exists to make it: Pass 1's frame cited Howard's roads at "Ch. II p. 231" and his railroads at "Ch. III p. 236." 231) and §III "Railroads" (p. 236) — sections of one chapter, not chapters of their own. The build's citations are corrected here so a checker lands on the right pages; the error was the frame's, not the book's. What Howard settled: Liberty Township formed by the county board's order of 2 May 1837 out of Greene, its 1837 boundaries quoted in full, and Lincoln Township taken from it 7 June 1866 — the frame dates of this whole build. His town section, Chapter IX §2, quotes the plat dedication itself, the strongest single carrier of the town's founding: laid out on the southwest quarter of section 28 and the southeast quarter of section 29, T36N R1E, streets 66 feet wide but Main Street 82½, alleys 16½ and 14, each lot ten rods by four — a quarter acre — "this 12th day of January, 1836," signed Daniel Antrim alone, "Surveyed by Tyra W. Bray, St. Joseph County Surveyor," the corner of sections 28, 29, 32 and 33 the beginning point. Against it stands Chapman: 1837, by Daniel and James P. Antrim. The dedication text Howard quotes is the stronger carrier; both print, in the Story of North Liberty section leg and here, and neither is silently preferred in the build's narrative voice — a checker should know the plat book itself, in the county recorder's office, is the settler neither pass has yet pulled. Howard states the incorporation in one sentence — "The town was duly incorporated June 8, 1894" — and gives the newspapers their first history: the Herald of about 1892, the News begun 23 March 1895 by Dell M. Woodward, the North West Indianian of about 1903, each dug at source depth in this section's newspapers article. His railroads section carries the town's two lines at county strength — the Three I "to South Bend, by way of Walkerton and North Liberty," and the Wabash's northern line "passing through Wyatt, Lakeville and North Liberty" — and his roads section carries none for this town: read whole, it treats the ferries, the Mishawaka and South Bend bridges, the Sauk Trail, the Vistula road, the plank roads, and the Michigan Road, which runs through Plymouth, Lakeville, and South Bend and does not pass through North Liberty. Howard's preface is dated South Bend, 1 January 1908, in a book of 1907, and names his own authorities as the 1875 atlas and Chapman — the shelf acknowledging itself, which is what this section is for.