North Liberty, Indiana · 19th century
1880s
18 dated events in 1880s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 18 dated mentions
1880s
- 1880V. S. Bulla
31 and 32 (p. 724). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: a second-generation Liberty landholder at 240 acres in 1880. Howard Vol. 2 carries him again as Vincent S. Bulla — §4.
- 1880The baseline: Chapman's natural history, 1880
The leg's spine is a dated survey: Chapman's History of St. Joseph County (1880) and its natural-history account.
- 1880Rev. Orlando R. Beebe
Licensed as a local preacher 11 May 1872; Methodist appointments Marmont Circuit, Winamac, Argus, Wheeler, Union Mills, then the North Liberty circuit, “where he now lives and labors” (p. 724). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: the town’s 1880 Methodist circuit pastor, with a three-enlistment Civil War record — the military set’s clerical entry.
- 1880Alex. S. Campbell, M.D.
(2) 9 May 1880 Sarah Gordon, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Gordon (pp. 724–725). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: North Liberty’s resident physician from 1871, one of the four practising physicians in Chapman’s 1880 town business census.
- 1880Eight Churches in 1880: Three in Town, Five in the Country
Chapman's 1880 count is the baseline of this section: three churches in the town of North Liberty and five more in Liberty Township outside it.
- 1880The Country Churches Nobody Named: The Evangelical and United Brethren Houses of 1880
Chapman counts an Evangelical church and a United Brethren church standing in Liberty Township in 1880; no carrier reached names either congregation, gives a site, or tells a fate.
- 1880Hunting and travel country — the township in Chapman's own telling
Third, a named settler household visited, mid-winter: Chapman recounts about a dozen Potawatomi calling at the house of Mr. Waldsmith (the settler of 1838 on section 30) in mid-winter, his wife at home alone; the visitors warmed at the fire, were fed "with great hospitality," and departed…
- 1880The departed predators: wolves, panthers and bears
The South Bend build carried wolves, panthers and bears whole, with last-record evidence sized, against Chapman's 1880 account.
- 1880The historians of the town, counted as authors first
The Chapman company's History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880) carries the town at page 719 — the source of the 1837 laying-out date and of the trades census the Story of North Liberty section quotes: two dry-goods establishments, the planing mill, the gristmill, the millinery store, the physicians, and the town's…
- 1880One millinery store: the 1880 trades census
The town's dress trade enters the record in a single line of Chapman's 1880 census of its businesses: "one millinery store."
- 1880–1875Chapman's 1880 census, with the names behind its lines
Chapman's town in 1880: two large dry-goods establishments, two boot-and-shoe stores, one drug-and-hardware, one grocery-and-hardware, one planing-mill and manufacturing establishment, one gristmill, one millinery, one butcher, one barber, four physicians, three churches, one schoolhouse.
- 1880–1967Rail-era outward flows, at directory strength only
Pre-rail, in Polk's 1880–81 gazetteer, L. S. and N. W. Pearce stand as cattle dealers at North Liberty (the 1875 atlas lists L. S. Pearse as "Farmer and Stock Dealer"), and the same gazetteer gives the town's nearest railroad approach as Walkerton, six miles — so any 1880s livestock trade moved overland to someone else's railhead.
- 1880–2015The transformation counted as a ladder, with its missing rungs named
Rung one, 1880: Chapman's count, banked above — one grist-mill, one planing-mill and manufacturing establishment, no hands counted.
- 1880–todayThe baseline: a department-store street at farm-town scale
The trades censuses carried in the Story of North Liberty section and businesses legs — Chapman's in 1880, the 1940 directory's twenty-one Main Street businesses…
- 1880–todayThe Lutheran Thread: Chapman's German Lutheran Church and St. John's Today
A German Lutheran church stood in the township in 1880; a St. John's Lutheran Church stands on Riley Road on the town's present roll; whether the second continues the first, no read carrier establishes.
- 1881–1983The Three I: from the Kankakee country to the Kankakee Belt
The north–south line came out of a foreclosure and a decade of building westward: after the Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific foreclosure sale of 5 May 1881, the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad was created in Illinois on 11 July 1881 and consolidated on 27 December 1881; it built from Momence, Illinois, to North Judson, Indiana…
- 1884–todayThe mutual layer: an integrated burial association, 1884, and the churches
The Porter Cemetery Association, formed 9 May 1884 with both white and African-American charter members (Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.2003.1), took charge of the burial ground Samuel Gard had deeded in 1854 and manages it still, an active independent cemetery inside Potato Creek State Park.
- 1889–todayThe Directors: Seven Holders, Humphreys to Murphy
Evelyn Humphreys, first Head Librarian, 1889–1903. Virginia M. Tutt, second Head Librarian, 1903–1927; the Tutt Branch of 1928 was named for her.