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

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2  Volume set published in 1917.

HISTORY

OF

EMMET COUNTY

 AND

DICKINSON COUNTY

IOWA

A RECORD OF SETTLEMENT, ORGANIZATION,

PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

Chicago, Illinois

THE PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY

1917

(925 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 * 

Volume 1

Table of Contents as Shown:

Chapter I. Physical features, geology, etc 
Chapter II. The first inhabitants 
Chapter III. The period of preparation 
Chapter IV. Military history 
Chapter V. Settlement and organization 
Chapter VI. Pioneers and their work 
Chapter VII. Township history 
Chapter VIII. Cities, towns and villages 
Chapter IX. Finance and industry 
Chapter X. Internal improvements 
Chapter XI. Education in Emmet County. The press and the library 
Chapter XII. Law and medicine 
Chapter XIII. The churches of Emmet County 
Chapter XIV. Societies and fraternities 
Chapter XV. Benevolent institutions 
Chapter XVI. Miscellaneous history 
Chapter XVII. Statistical review 
Chapter XVIII. Early settlement of Dickinson County 
Chapter XIX. Organization and government of Dickinson County 
Chapter XX. Dickinson County townships 
Chapter XXI. The Spirit Lake Massacre 
Chapter XXII. The Spirit Lake Massacre (continued). Aftermath of the massacre and the expedition 
The Spirit Lake Massacre (continued). Depredations in Minnesota and the fate of the captives
Chapter XXIV. The city of Spirit Lake 
Chapter XXV. Lake Park, Milford, Superior, Terrill and other towns 
Chapter XXVI. Transportation 
Chapter XXVII. Education in Dickinson County 
Chapter XXVIII. Churches of Dickinson County 
Chapter XXIX. Dickinson County societies 
Chapter XXX. Medicine, law and courts 
Chapter XXXI. Dickinson County resorts 
Chapter XXXII. Miscellaneous items 
Chapter XXXIII. Chronological summary 

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Aanonson, Amundsen, Andersen, Anderson, Appelquist, Arthur, Atkins, Baago, Bachman, Bailey, Baker, Bascom, Bergeson, Berven, Bixby, Bjorenson, Bjorkjonli, Blair, Blom, Blow, Bonnicksen, Bradfield, Bradley, Braun, Brown, Brunemeier, Buhr, Burkhead, Butler, Canon, Carpenter, Carson, Chapman, Cheever, Christensen, Christian, Churchill, Clark, Clump, Coleman, Conlin, Coon, Cratty, Crim, Cronk, Crumb, Cummins, Cunningham, Dack, Daniels, Davis, Dean, Deibner, De Long, Denkmann, Dobberstein, Donaldson, Doughty, Dowden, Dundas, Eckhart, Egertson, Ellefson, Ellerston, Erickson, Espeset, Estes, Faltinson, Felkey, Fox, Francis, Fuller, Gaarde, Galloway, Gammelgaard, Geissinger, Gilbert, Gill, Gordon, Gorton, Gravatt, Graves, Guge, Gunderson, Guthrie, Haahr, Hageboeck, Hammes, Hansen, Hanson, Haring, Harris, Harrison, Haugen, Hays, Heinrich, Henderson, Henriksen, Henry, Herrick, Herum, Higinbotham, Hildreth, Hoien, Hoppus, Horswell, Howard, Inman, Irwin, Iverson, Jackson, Jacobson, Jakobsen, Jensen, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Juhl, Kerr, Kessey, Knapp, Knipe, Knoll, Knudson, Koenecke, Kohl, Koon, Korrect, Kreis, Kruse, Kyhl, Ladd, La Doux, Lambert, Larsen, Larson, Lawrence, Lee, Lighter, Lindquist, Littell, Lough, Luscombe, McClune, McCullough, McDonald, McNary, Madsen, Martini, Matheson, Mathews, Mathieson, Mauss, Meyers, Mickelson, Miller, Miner, Minor, Mitchell, Moore, Morrice, Morse, Mortensen, Mott, Munson, Murray, Myhre, Nau, Nece, Nefzger, Nelsen, Nelson, Nichols, Nielsen, Oakes, Ogilvie, Olsen, Olson, Opsal, Oransky, Osborn, Overocker, Palmer, Paton, Paulson, Pegden, Percival, Peters, Petersen, Peterson, Pillsbury, Ports, Quesnel, Raebel, Rasmussen, Ravn, Reed, Refsell, Reisinger, Reno, Reppin, Rhodes, Ridley, Ries, Robb, Robinson, Rokne, Root, Rosenberger, Rudd, Ruef, Salyers, Sando, Schaefer, Schooley, Schroeder, Seelye, Shadle, Shipman, Sindt, Skattebo, Skewis, Smith, Snyder, Solomonson, Sorensen, Spaulding, Spear, Starkey, Steiner, Sternborg, Stewart, Stillman, Stolenberg, Strandskov, Strathman, Stuart, Sullivan, Sunde, Swanlund, Taylor, Templeton, Thompson, Thomsen, Toft, Tornell, Vance, Vigdal, Wade, Warburton, Webb, Weir, Welty, Wertz, West, White, Wicks, Wilson, Willcox, Wing, Wolden, Woods, Yarnes, Young, Zerfoss