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2 May 1837 · 7 June 1866
Liberty Township was carved out of Greene by a county-board order of 2 May 1837. Howard prints the order's territory whole: beginning at the northwest corner of section 20, township 36, range 2 east, west to the Kankakee River, down the river to the LaPorte county line, south to the Starke county line, east to Marshall County, and around Marshall's north line back to the place of beginning — a township that at its making took in ground now in three counties' edges. Chapman tells the organizing differently, and the difference prints whole: "In May, 1837, the township was organized by the following persons: Daniel and James Antrim, John and David Rupel, Samuel Loring, James Cole, Jacob Rupel and Joseph Liggett. 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." A settler organizing in one history, a commissioners' order in the other; both stand. On 7 June 1866, by a second order Howard prints with its metes and bounds, the territory south and west of a line run from the Kankakee across the south of congressional township 36 was taken from Liberty and formed into Lincoln Township — Chapman's version gives petitions of June 1866, granted, with no day and no line. "Liberty township, as so limited, has continued unchanged ever since," Howard closes, writing in 1907; no post-1907 county order changing it was read. Liberty was a late subdivision of the county's original frame: the county board's first townships, formed 6 May 1832 over the territory the county now holds, were Penn, Portage and Olive, and Greene, formed 4 January 1836, at first held the present Greene, Liberty and Lincoln together.