North Liberty Wars and Military Service

The Civil War dead of this ground

TWO NAMES, AT TWO DIFFERENT STRENGTHS — PRINTED UNMERGED

Two of the eleven died in the service, and the record carries their deaths at two different strengths, which print side by side and are never levelled. Kane's death at Bentonville stands at biography strength — the county history's own account of the man. John J. Rupel's death stands at narrative strength: killed in battle in Tennessee, as the township narrative carries him. Neither carrier is corrected by the other, neither man's death is given a date or a burial place the record does not print, and no third township Civil War death is named in any carrier reached. Both men rest where the record leaves them; no resting place is printed for either, because none is carried at claimable strength.

Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907).

The Spanish-American War

1898 · THE COUNTY'S REGIMENT; NO TOWNSHIP NAME REACHED

The county's regiment was the 157th Indiana — "Studebaker's Tigers" — and its Co. F was a South Bend company. In the roster portions read, no "North Liberty" residence appears, and no county or township dead of the war is named. The result prints at its true strength: partial-roster strength. The full roster scan that would close the question is named's note as residue; until it is worked, this section claims no Spanish-American soldier and no Spanish-American death for this town, and prints the county's regiment at pointer size because the county's war is the frame this township's men would have marched in — not because any one of them is shown to have done so.

The First World War: the county's roll, re-counted

1914–1918 · 109 COUNTY DEAD, COUNTED BY A STATED METHOD

The county's First World War dead stand at 109 — not imported from any summary, but re-counted from the roll itself. The carrier is the state's Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), St. Joseph County section, read whole. The method: every headed entry in the county section was enumerated in order — 102 full entries — and the roll's appendix names were then counted on the same terms, seven more, each named in the roll. 102 and 7 make 109. The town's share of the 109 is dug in the next article — it is exactly one man by birth and home, and two more by rest.

Gold Star Honor Roll (Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), St. Joseph County section read whole and enumerated.

The later wars

1990– · NO TOWNSHIP NAME AT OFFICIAL STRENGTH

For the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, no North Liberty servicemember's death or decoration was reached in any carrier searched. The county's named Iraq dead at Defense-release strength include Technical Sergeant Ryan Andrew Balmer of Mishawaka (killed 5 June 2007) — the county's name, in Mishawaka's file, pointed to here only so the county frame is complete and no part of it is borrowed. The DPAA unaccounted-for lists for Indiana named no North Liberty man at the strength searched. Living veterans of these wars stand under this build's discipline: none is profiled beyond what a public record itself prints at official strength, and no official carrier reached publishes a town-level record from which one could be named.

Defense Department release record (Balmer, at pointer); DPAA Indiana accounting reports; general searches as logged's findings.

Disasters: the pointers

THE COURSE LIVES IN THE BANKED MAJOR-EVENTS FILE

The town's disaster course stands whole in the banked major-events file: the 1871 Cole mill fire, the Palm Sunday tornado course, the Blizzard of 1978, Potato Creek's no-crest record, the 1892 lightning strike on St. Philip's, and the wreck negative. Two tests were re-run at web strength and are recorded here so their negatives are current: a hotel fire and a downtown fire for this town — both negative again; the Hotel Grant was replaced about 1920, not burned, as the Deep pass established. Nothing adds a disaster to the banked file, and nothing in it moves one.