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Tested, November 2026
Run explicitly, the richest-man test returns no claimant. No carrier reached — not Howard, not Chapman, not the gazetteers, not the nomination, not the press of record as reached — calls any North Liberty man the richest in the town, the county or the state, in any era. The test's settler, if a claim ever surfaces, is the probate record: St. Joseph County estate files for the Antrim, Worster, Reamer and Steele estates would give the first sized figures this section could print, and until they are pulled, every fortune in the town's history stands unpublished. The great-houses item closes the leg with the same honesty: no house in North Liberty is documented in any carrier reached with a building cost, a mansion's survival course or a Register designation of its own — the town's Register listings are a commercial district and a park. The fine houses of the farm era exist in the aggregate statistic the Architecture section carries — more than a third of the town's homes predate 1940 — but a great-houses article requires named houses with published costs, and this town's record, as reached, has none to give.