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Claims concerning 1833–1836; conflict C47 stands whole
Claim 1 — the 1833 group. SUPPORTED. Chapman, narrative, p. 718: "The first settlements were made in 1833 near North Liberty, by John Kane, John and Jacob Earhart and Isaac Townsend." Howard (p. 281) agrees on 1833 and the same four men — the earliest dated settlements in the record, with both county histories concurring. Claim 2 — John Rupel, "first settler." FAILS. Chapman's John N. Rupel sketch, p. 730, says of his father John Rupel that he "was the first settler in Liberty tp." — against Chapman's own narrative dating John Rupel's arrival to January 1836. 1833 precedes 1836 by three years; the claim survives only if an unstated "permanent" qualifier is smuggled into it. Claim 3 — David Rupel, "second permanent settler." UNRESOLVED as printed. Chapman's David Rupel sketch, p. 730: David Rupel is "second permanent settler in Liberty tp." (he moved to Liberty in May 1836) — "second permanent" implies a first permanent settler whom Chapman nowhere identifies consistently, and Claim 2's unqualified "first settler" does not supply him. All three Chapman statements stand whole; none is reconciled with the others; Howard names no single first settler. That is C47, exactly as it stands in the bedrock carrier itself.