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liberty| In its medieval sense, a franchise, or collection of privileges, granted to an individual or community by the king, and the area over which this franchise extended. |
Liberty| Town and administrative headquarters of Union County, eastern Indiana, 21 km/13 mi south of Richmond; population (1990) 2,100. Farm implements and paint are manufactured here. The surrounding area produces livestock, grain, and dairy items, and the town is a transporting point. |
Liberty| City and administrative headquarters of Clay County, northwest Missouri, 21 km/13 mi northeast of central Kansas City; population (1990) 20,500. In an agricultural area growing corn, wheat, and tobacco and raising livestock, it has grain elevators and is a commercial and railway transport centre. |
| In 1838–39 the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was imprisoned in jail here. In 1866 Liberty was the site of a famous daylight bank robbery by the James gang; the bank is now a museum. The city is the seat of William Jewell College (1849). |
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