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1834 – 1907
The founding wealth of this ground was measured in acres, and only one purchase in the record carries a number. 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. The Antrim family, who laid the town out in 1836 or 1837 and gave it its first election at James P. Antrim's house, held the townsite itself; neither Howard's 1907 county history nor Chapman's 1880 history, in the passages reached, totals the Antrims' acres, prices the plat, or values any estate, and the leg therefore prints the town's founding fortune as unsized — an explicit statement, not an omission. The same discipline covers the township's prosperous farm families of Howard's biographical volume: men like Henry B. Worster, the builder of the 1892 Worster Building, are documented as substantial — contractor, storekeeper, landholder — without a single published valuation reached. The treaty-era item of the checklist prints as a boundary negative: the cessions that took this ground are dug whole in the banked land and tribes sections, but no chief's or trader's fortune was seated in North Liberty, and none is imported.