What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Faulk County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1909.

 

History

of

Faulk County,

South Dakota

 

By

Captain C.H. Ellis

 

TOGETHER WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF

PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

Record Print

Faulkton, S.D.

 

1909

 

500 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

INDEX

 

Introduction

Introductory

State History

Faulk County

County Organization

The First Settler

Buffalo in Faulk County

The Blizzard of January 12, 1888

Faulkton

LaFoon

DeVoe

The Western Third of Faulk County

The Pioneer Settler

The First Memorial Day

New Social Relations

The First Election

New Postoffices

The Donation of a Church Bell

Veterans of the Civil War

Grand Army Post

Educational

The Railroad

Faulk County in 1908

From County Commissioners' Record

Faulk County by D. S. Smith

Early History

Town Organization In Faulk County

Town Officers

The Coming of the Railroads

The Town of Zell

Seneca

Future Growth

Faulkton

Social Organization

Church Organization

The Woman Suffrage Question

The

Faulk County Court
House

Old Settlers' Annual Picnic

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL.

 

Artz, Allen, Bottum, Byrne, Bryden, Bixler, Berg, Bell, Boiler, Batteen, Byrne, Bruggeman, Bickell, Chambers, Clark, Clifford, Chapman, Cole, Cochrane, Cornwell, Dodds, Deady, Dahl, Dixon, Davis, Ericsen, Ensch, Ellenbecker, Eaton, Ellis, Edgerton, Ellis, Faulkner, Finley, Findeis, Freeland, Forrest, Ford, Finley, Griffee, Garrick, Golden, Gooder, Grater, Gabler, Greener, Harrington, Hooper, Hagan, Hatfield, Hays, Humphrey, Holgate, Hall, Hogeboom, Johnston, Jones, Jarvis, Jungworth, Knapton, Kellett, Kern, Korupp, Kolegraff, Latham, Lower, Loy, Law, Luke, Lambert, Loken, Miller, McDearmon, Moulton, McComb, Mertens, McKay, McAllen, McGrath, Metz, Morse, Niemeyer,  Nevins, Nestor, O'Neil, Person, Pickler, Phelps, Pangburn, Purcell, Pillsbury, Pagel, Potter, Roseland, Roseland, Rush, Reinecke, Rathbun, Ramsdell, Riley, Rudine, Reed, Robbins, Rice, Smith, Sangster, Simmons, Seaman, Sprague, Shirk, Stone, Stoddard, Strachan, Swift, Schmitt, Steele, Seckner, Strasburg, Schaefer, Sime, Thorn, Turner, Thorn, Thompson, Vanmeerbeck, Vinton, Voss, Wilkinson, Wight, Whitney, Wallace,  Weideman, Wood, Young, York,