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1916–17
The largest published pile of money in the town's early record is $25,000, and it is a bank's, not a man's. R. L. Polk & Co.'s Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–1917 lists the North Liberty State Bank at a capital of $25,000, with Isaac Reamer as president and A. C. Steele as cashier — the banked banks section carries the line whole, with its transcription variance. A small state bank's statutory capital is the closest thing this town's record offers to a sized fortune: it represents the pooled subscriptions of local shareholders whose individual stakes no carrier reached publishes, and the leg does not divide it by imagination. The bank closed on 17 January 1927 and its insolvency was litigated through 1928; the Community State Bank that succeeded it in 1943 traded until its 1987 merger into 1st Source Bank, and no published capital or estate figure for either institution's local holders was reached beyond the 1916–17 line. The banking-fortune item thus closes at its true size: one figure, one date, no dynasty.