North Liberty, Indiana · 19th century
1830s
28 dated events in 1830s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 28 dated mentions
1830s
- 1830–1880The first settlers, in their own sketches — and the three texts that do not agree
David Rupel is the biography-depth anchor of the earliest stratum: born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 31 July 1811, son of German-born parents, Jacob and Ann Rupel; he wintered in Elkhart County in 1830–31 and reached South Bend when it had two houses…
- 1831–1866The law over their heads, whole
Indiana's Black Laws of 1831 required Black residents to register and post bond. The federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made seizure lawful anywhere in the state and penalised aid.
- 1832The taking: the Treaty of Tippecanoe, 26 October 1832
The townsite was ceded by the Potawatomi treaty concluded on Tippecanoe River on 26 October 1832.
- 1833–1836First settlements: 1833, near the site of the town
The first settlements in the township were made in 1833, near the present townsite. The two county histories agree on the year, the place, and the men.
- 1833–1836The first-settler claims (C47)
Chapman, narrative, p. 718: "The first settlements were made in 1833 near North Liberty, by John Kane, John and Jacob Earhart and Isaac Townsend."
- 1833–1837The founders on both sides, in one frame
On the settler side, the founding group as the two bedrock histories carry it: first settlements in 1833 near the townsite by John Kane, John and Jacob Earhart, and Isaac Townsend (Chapman p. 718, Howard agreeing).
- 1834The Huggart Settlement: the first community, whole
The first land purchase was in 1834, and it was made by free Black brothers.
- 1834–1907The land era: Antrim acres and the farm fortunes, unsized
Samuel Huggart's eighty acres, purchased in 1834, is the figure the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker review prints — a free Black family's founding holding, worked in the Huggart Settlement article of the communities leg.
- 1836A town with two birthdays: the plat of 1836 or 1837
North Liberty was laid out in 1836 or in 1837, and the record carries both years. The banked spine prints the conflict whole, unmerged, in its first paragraph and in its plat article: the Antrim plat falls in one year on some carriers and the other on the rest, and the build does not choose.
- 1836The plat: the Antrim ground, 1836 or 1837
The town was laid out on the Antrim ground at the corner of four sections — in 1836 by the dedication Howard prints, in 1837 by Chapman's account.
- 1836The plat's crossing: geometry before roads
The town was centred on a crossing before it had roads to cross: Howard (pp. 313–314) records the plat laid out in January 1836 at the corner common to sections 28, 29, 32 and 33 of Township 36 North, Range 1 East, with Main Street "intended to be of extraordinary width, being 82.5 feet, while others are but 66 feet"…
- 1836–1837The naming of "North Liberty" — what the record proves, and what it tells as story
What the record proves: Howard quotes the plat dedication itself — dated 12 January 1836, by Daniel Antrim, the plat surveyed by Tyra W. Bray — and the dedication as quoted recites no naming statement.
- 1836–1841Removal: what passed, what did not pass, and the band that stayed
(The reserve had been ceded by the Treaty of Yellow River, 5 August 1836, which Menominee refused to sign and whose signatures he claimed were forged; Menominee survived the march and died at St. Marys, Kansas, 15 April 1841.)
- 1836–1900The nineteenth century: inquests without a cause célèbre
Its settler, if the record is larger than the histories admit, is the county coroner's inquest record and the circuit court criminal dockets for 1836–1900, neither of which was read whole; both stand as named gaps.
- 1836–2026The crossing as a place
Stand at the junction and the town's whole road history is underfoot: two two-lane undivided state highways crossing at grade at the corner common to sections 28, 29, 32 and 33 — the plat's centre of 1836, still the town's.
- 1837A town with two birthdays: the plat of 1836 or 1837
North Liberty was laid out in 1836 or in 1837, and the record carries both years. The banked spine prints the conflict whole, unmerged, in its first paragraph and in its plat article: the Antrim plat falls in one year on some carriers and the other on the rest, and the build does not choose.
- 1837The township frame: Liberty organized, 1837
Liberty Township was carved out of Greene by a county-board order of 2 May 1837.
- 1837First houses, first store, the mills on Potato Creek
The town's first things cluster in 1837: the first house, the first store, and the gristmill. Chapman: "soon after its location James Downey built a house; the same year four other houses were built."
- 1837The town's founders as company founders: Antrim's store, the Coles' works
The businesses leg carries the succession whole: the first store, from 1837, passing Antrim to Reynolds to Richardson to Harvey across thirty years, while the Antrim family's own course is the people leg's.
- 1837The first name on the roll: Jas. P. Antrim, justice of the peace, 1837
P. Antrim, who was elected Justice of the Peace" — Chapman's sentence, printed whole in the banked spine beside Howard's differing account of the township's organizing by commissioners' order of 2 May 1837.
- 1837The working creek: the mills, the pond, and the end of water power
The Story of North Liberty section carries the course whole and this section points to it at the size the water owns: the gristmill of 1837, Hiram Bean and Alonzo Hill's sawmill of 1839 "not far from where the present grist-mill stands," a later newspaper history's judgment that Potato Creek "powered more mills than…
- 1837–1867The first store: Daniel Antrim → Reynolds → Richardson → Harvey, 1837–1867
Daniel Antrim opened the first store, general merchandise, in 1837. He sold the stock to E. S. Reynolds in 1838; Reynolds sold to A. P. Richardson in 1840; Richardson sold to James Harvey about 1845, who ran it as a general store.
- 1837–1869To 1869 — 10 linkages
Daniel Antrim — the town's first store, general merchandise (opened 1837; sold the stock 1838). E. S. Reynolds — the first store (bought Antrim's stock 1838; sold 1840).
- 1837–1900The Township Course: A Log School-House in 1838, and a Thin District Record
The township frame around the school is settled: Liberty Township was formed by the county board's order of 2 May 1837, and the territory that became Lincoln Township was taken from it on 7 June 1866 — Chapman and Howard agreeing.
- 1837–1912Officeholders
From the records read: James P. Antrim, Justice of the Peace, elected at the first election, spring 1837. Norman S. Miller, Justice of the Peace (three successive terms from 1857), Township Trustee (1869, seven years), and Postmaster, "appointed by President Lincoln" — all as Chapman prints them.
- 1837–1919The first brewer, tested as a question: none found
The negative's tested span is 1837–1919, at directory-and-county-history strength for 1875–1881 in the first hand and at reference-list strength for the remainder.
- 1837–1943The oldest-institution claims
The record's firsts are not oldest-surviving claims: Chapman's store succession gives the first store to Daniel Antrim, 1837, followed by E. S. Reynolds, then A. P. Richardson (1840), then James Harvey to 1867 — a succession of firsts, none a surviving "oldest."
- 1837–todayThe Kankakee, at its true frame: the township's western water
Howard's printing of the county board's order of 2 May 1837 runs Liberty Township's western line "west to the Kankakee River, down the river to the LaPorte county line" — the river as a boundary call, miles west of the townsite, on ground taken out of Liberty when Lincoln Township was formed in 1866.