North Liberty, Indiana · 19th century
1860s
14 dated events in 1860s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 14 dated mentions
1860s
- 1863–1895The county maps and the atlas trade
The first county-map class is documented for this ground by the maps the Cole tracing actually used: an 1863 St. Joseph County map showing Cole family land south of town, and an 1895 county map showing Cole property just south of town…
- 1864–1967The drug store line: Hoffman to Moak to Merrick's — and no successor
Daniel Hoffman settled in Liberty Township in 1864 — the atlas prints "Hoffman, D. — Drugs and Groceries — 1864" — kept a first store at the southeast corner of Main and Market, then built the Hoffman Block at 108/110 North Main about 1885 for his drugstore and grocery: the drugstore in the north storefront (still so…
- 1865Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery: the township's one church ground
1865 — Liberty Township," the ground active into 2014 on the reading's own latest dates. Its earliest deaths print exactly as carried, anomalies flagged and not resolved: John Rupert, d.
- 1865–1880The town Chapman counted, and the industry that followed
The trades had been gathering since the war: Elijah Lee, blacksmith, 1865; Norman S. Miller's dry-goods establishment, 1865; Houser Brothers' general store, 1875.
- 1865–1884Blacksmiths and the wagon trade: Lee's bench and its directory life
E. T. (Elijah) Lee kept a blacksmith shop from 1865 — Civil War veteran, builder of wagons as well as shodder of horses, operating into the 1900s, his shop fronting Harrison Street behind 140 North Main; the atlas prints him "Blacksmithing and Horse-Shoeing — Wythe Co., Virginia…
- 1865–1917The horse-trade ground inherited, dated
The nomination's record fills the named courses: Elijah Lee established his blacksmith shop in 1865, "also built wagons," and operated into the 1900s, fronting Harrison Street behind 140 North Main; George R. Flood established his harness business in 1871 and "kept a full stock of harnesses and whips"…
- 1865–todayGeneral stores and groceries: the long line, 1865 – present
Norman S. Miller opened a large dry goods store in 1865 — invoices totalling $9,000 in 1880 — serving also as township trustee and postmaster (the gazetteer headers name him postmaster in 1880–81…
- 1865–todayThe trades whole III: draying and the livery succession; blacksmith to welding
The smithy era stands whole in the businesses file: Elijah Lee from 1865 into the 1900s, and the four-smith bench of the c.1886 patrons list (Lee, Baker, Fetzer, Keesy), with B. F. Berger in 1880–81, and the wagon trade sharing the ground (Ritchie, Rowan, Nelson, Warster, F. M. Lee; carriage painting, Hamilton; harness, Flood).
- 1866Before patents: the Cole works and the making town
The Cole Brothers' planing mill (1866), burned and reincorporated in 1873 as the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, made wagons and buggies at factory scale (businesses leg) — manufacture by craft and jig rather than by patented novelty, and no patent in the record reached attaches to the firm or to Isaac R. Cole.
- 1866Cole Brothers' planing mill → the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, 1866 – into the 20th century
"Cole Brothers built a large planing mill and manufacturing facility in 1866" at North Liberty; it burned in 1871 and was reincorporated in 1873 as the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, which manufactured wagons and buggies and "continued into the 20th century"…
- 1866The maker test: wagons and buggies, whole — automobiles, none
The businesses leg carries the firm whole: the planing mill of 1866, the fire of 1871 (and the paint-shop fire the Tribune records in November 1873), the rebuilding at the south end of town, the wagon-and-buggy product line that made the works the town's largest nineteenth-century employer class.
- 1868The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 1868 — Built, and Gone from the Roll
The second church in the township was the Seventh-Day Adventist church in town, built in 1868 by six named donors; no Adventist congregation stands at North Liberty today.
- 1868The founding instrument: General Order No. 11
General Order No. 11, Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D.C., 5 May 1868, issued by Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan (Adjutant General N. P. Chipman), designated 30 May 1868 for strewing flowers and decorating the graves of comrades who died in defence of their country during the late rebellion…
- 1869–todayFurniture and undertaking → the funeral home line: Bettcher to Palmer
P. S. Burkhart stands beside him in the same trade (atlas 1875, settled 1869; patrons list likewise). Jeremiah Steel [Steele] lists furniture across the 1880s gazetteers — the atlas prints a Jeremiah Steele as "Farming and Saw Milling," the same man at two trades or two men, not resolved and printed without merger.