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

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 volume set published in 1910.

Past and Present

of

Fayette County,

Iowa

By:  George William Fitch

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY

INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA

1910

1484 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 * 

CONTENTS

 Chapter I. Iowa antiquities
 Chapter II. An outline of Iowa history
 Chapter III. Organization and settlement of Fayette County
 Chapter IV. Pioneer reminiscences
 Chapter V. Pioneer homes, amusements and recreation
 Chapter VI. Court houses, jail, poor farm
 Chapter VII. German-American citizenship and other foreign immigrants
 Chapter VIII. Public utilities
 Chapter IX. Fayette County lawyers
 Chapter X. The press of Fayette County
 Chapter XI. The medical profession
 Chapter XII. Official honors, including a roster of county officers
 Chapter XIII. War of the rebellion - Introductory
 Chapter XIV. Educational history of Fayette County
 Chapter XV. Churches of Fayette County
 Chapter XVI. Freemasonry in Fayette County
 Chapter XVII. The development of agriculture and stock raising
 Chapter XVIII. Auburn Township
 Chapter XIX. Banks Township
 Chapter XX. Bethel Township
 Chapter XXI. Center Township
 Chapter XXII. Clermont Township
 Chapter XXIII. Dover Township
 Chapter XXIV. Eden Township
 Chapter XXV. Fairfield Township
 Chapter XXVI. Fremont Township
 Chapter XXVII. Harlan Township
 Chapter XXVIII. Illyria Township
 Chapter XXIX. Jefferson Township
 Chapter XXX. Oran township
 Chapter XXXI. Pleasant Valley Township
 Chapter XXXII. Putnam Township
 Chapter XXXIII. Scott Township
 Chapter XXXIV. Smithfield Township
 Chapter XXXV. Union Township and the city of West Union
 Chapter XXXVI. Westfield township
 Chapter XXXVII. Windsor township
 Chapter XXXVIII. Miscellaneous items of interest
 Chapter XXXIX. Outdoor art in the development of a new country

HISTORICAL INDEX

BIOGRAPHIAL INDEX

Abbott, Ackermann, Adams, Addie, Ainsworth, Alcorn, Allen, Ames, Anderson, Appelman, Auer, Babcock, Badger, Baechler, Baldwin, Barnes, Barnhart, Baumann, Baumgartner, Beall, Becker, Belknap, Bell, Belt, Bemis, Benson, Bentz, Berkey, Bevins, Biddinger, Billmeyer, Bisbing, Blessin, Blong, Blunt, Boeding, Boess, Boie, Boleyn, Bopp, Bouska, Boyce, Brace, Brackin, Brewer, Briggs, Brockway, Brorby, Brown, Bruehler, Burkhart, Burget, Burnside, Butler, Capper, Carnall, Carpenter, Chamberlin, Chambers, Chittenden, Chrysler, Clark, Claxton, Clements, Colby, Cole, Conklin, Conner, Cook, Cooney, Coventry, Crawford, Cross, Crowe, Curtis, Darnall, Darnell, Davis, Day, Deming, Dewey, Dibble, Dickens, Dickman, Doane, Dodd, Donat, Dooley, Dorland, Doughty, Dutton, Dwyer, Dykins, Earnshaw, Eckheart, Eitel, Ernst, Estey, Evans, Fels, Fennell, Finch, Fisher, Fisk, Fitch, Flanagan, Folensbee, Follensbee, Foot, Fordyce, Fortney, Fossaan, Foster, Fothergill, Fox, Foxwell, Freiburghaus, Frey, Frisbee, Frost, Fuller, Gager, Garnier, Gehring, George, Gerken, Gilbert, Gilbertson, Gilmer, Gladwin, Goodrich, Gosse, Graves, Greathead, Green, Gremmels, Grimes, Gross, Gunderson, Gurney, Hadsell, Hall, Halverson, Hancock, Hanson, Harkin, Harrington, Harrison, Hauge, Heiserman, Helms, Hendershott, Henderson, Hetherton, Hitch, Hoagland, Hobson, Hoepfner, Holmes, Holton, Horan, Horn, Hosford, Hotchkiss, House, Howard, Hoyt, Hughes, Hunsberger, Hurd, Husband, Hyman, Iliff, Ingersoll, Irvine, Jacobsen, James, Jamison, Jennings, Jipson, Johnson, Jones, Kalb, Keiser, Kerr, Kettleson, Kiel, Kieron, Kleppe, Klingman, Koehler, Krft, Krug, Kuhen, Kunz, Lacy, Lakin, Larrabee, Lauer, Learn, Lehman, Lehmann, Lenhart, Lenz, Linday, Lisher, Lockwood, Loftus, Loomis, Luce, Luchsinger, Luthmer, McAlavey, McFarlan, McGee, McGlathery, McIlree, McLaughlin, McLean, McNaul, Mabon, Magner, Mahoney, Maloney, Malven, Martin, Maloney, Malven, Martin, Mattocks, Mattoon, May, Medberry, Meisgeier, Messerli, Miehe, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Moser, Mumby, Musser, Neff, Neumann, Nicklaus, Niles, Nordhus, Nus, O'Connor, Odekirk, Oelwein, Ogle, O'Harran, Oleson, O'Neill, Orr, Ostrander, Owens, Paine, Palmer, Pape, Patterson, Pattison, Paul, Paulson, Payne, Peek, Perkins, Phillips, Pieper, Pitts, Porter, Potter, Potts, Powers, Pratt, Pringle, Pritchard, Proctor, Putnam, Rafferty, Randall, Rathbun, Rawson, Reed, Reeder, Regan, Rembold, Richards, Richmond, Ridler, Riley, Robbins, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Rolfs, Rothlisberger, Rowland, Saboe, Sackville, Salisbury, Saltsgiver, Sargent, Scallan, Schatz, Schlatter, Schneider, Schori, Schrader, Schug, Scott, Shaffer, Shaw, Sheehy, Sherman, Shippy, Shipton, Sidler, Smith, Spears, Spence, Spencer, Sprague, Stam, Stangeland, Stansbary, Steffens, Stewart, Stiggall, Stolle, Stone, Stranahan, Stuart, Sullivan, Sumner, Sweet, Talcott, Talmadge, Tamblyn, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Thorson, Toenges, Toomey, Toutsch, Ungerer, Upton, Vagts, Von Rolf, Wagner, Walsh, Walters, Waucoma, Wazlawski, Weber, Webster, Wenger, Wetherbee, White, Whiteford, Whiteley, Whitmore, Whitney, Whorley, Wilbur, Wilken, Wilkinson, Wilson, Wing, Wolf, Wolfs, Wood, Woodard, Woodring, Wright, Yarous, Young, Zeigler