1900s

20th century 10 dated mentions

1900s

1. 1901–1964
   The timetable pattern: the town on two station lists

   A compiled list of Indiana railroad stations (branchline.uk, "Indiana Railroads — SL 281," its stated basis the Official Guide of 1875/1893 and company public and working timetables) prints the New York Central's "South Bend – Illinois" line (ex-CI&S, ex-Three I) from its 1901 timetable reference: South Bend 0.0…

2. 1903–today
   Churches as buildings, and the plant as built fabric

   For the churches: the North Liberty Church of the Brethren's house was purchased from another denomination in 1903 and remodeled in 1923, and was operated jointly with the Oak Grove house until the congregations separated in 1917 (Shultz, History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana, 1952).

3. 1904
   The interurban: proposed once, never built

   One proposal touched the town, in print, in the summer of 1904: a syndicate under general manager W. H. McCullough proposed a gasoline-motor interurban from South Bend to Plymouth "by way of North Liberty, Walkerton, Tyner, and Plymouth," with materials to be bought in South Bend…

4. 1905
   Livery stables: one attested, and a directory absence that is not proof

   No livery stable is listed under that trade in Polk's 1880–81, 1882–83, or 1884–85 editions, or in the 1875 atlas directory's business columns — all read whole…

5. 1907
   William Newcomer

   Sold the Ohio farm and came to Liberty Township, purchasing the 80-acre tract his son Charles now lives on, plus another 80 acres c. 1¼ miles east; in summer 1907 erected a cottage home there (Part 75).

6. 1907
   Leonard Amm

   27 May 1907 aged 84-4-17 at his son George’s home in Dearborn County) and Margaret (Kundinger) Amm (b. c. 1823 in the same place; d.

7. 1907
   Israel Irvin

   5 June 1907 , aged 75-1-24, interred in the Liberty cemetery, after fifty-five-plus years of marriage); six children named — incl.

8. 1907
   Rev. Isaac Early

   D. 14 Aug. 1907, aged 69-5-7 — as printed in the entry (a death date inside a 1907 volume; printed as reached) (Part 68). [PROFILE] Carrying fact: minister, 200-acre purchaser, and county commissioner in one Liberty life — the office is cross-pointed to the government leg, the ministry to the Religion section…

9. 1907
   Memberships are not lodges: the 1907 evidence, kept separate

   Howard's 1907 county history shows North Liberty men inside the century's orders — without seating those orders here.

10. 1909–1916
    Implement and machinery dealerships: hardware-store departments, at true size

    In 1909 a farm implement warehouse stood at the rear of the east Main Street block; its operator is unnamed in the nomination.