What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Lee County and its people.
This 2 Volume set is a scanned copy on CD of:
Story
of
Lee County,
Iowa
360 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.
Under the Editorial Supervision of
NELSON C. ROBERTS, Fort Madison
DR. S. W. MOORHEAD, Keokuk
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME I & VOLUME 2
CHICAGO
S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
Volume 1
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I PHYSICAL FEATURES, GEOLOGY, ETC.
CHAPTER II ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS
CHAPTER III EARLY EXPLORATIONS—PREPARATION
CHAPTER IV INDIAN TREATIES AND WARS
CHAPTER V SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER VI TOWNSHIP HISTORY
CHAPTER VII TOWNSHIP HISTORY, CONTINUED
CHAPTER VIII FORT MADISON
CHAPTER IX THE CITY OF KEOKUK
CHAPTER X TOWNS AND VILLAGES
CHAPTER XI EARLY MILITARY HISTORY
CHAPTER XII THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD
CHAPTER XIII SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND MILITIA
CHAPTER XIV INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
CHAPTER XV THE KEOKUK DAM
CHAPTER XVI FINANCE AND INDUSTRY
CHAPTER XVII EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XVIII LEE COUNTY IN LITERATURE
CHAPTER XIX THE BENCH AND BAR
CHAPTER XX THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
CHAPTER XXI CHURCH HISTORY
CHAPTER XXII SOCIETIES AND FRATERNITIES
CHAPTER XXIII CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, ETC.
CHAPTER XXIV MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY
CHAPTER XXV STATISTICAL REVIEW
VOLUME 2:
INDEX OF BIOGRAPHIES
Albright, Alvis, Anschutz, Anthony, Armentrout, Axt, Ayres, Baldwin, Ballinger, Bank, Bargar, Bell, Bever, Bevering, Blom, Brinck, Brown, Brown Paper Co, Brownell, Buck, Bufe, Burk, Burster, Carrick, Casey, Chambers, Colby, Collins, Colvin, Conley, Connable, Cook, Corsepius, Cosgrove, Courtright, Craig, Crane, Crimmins, Cruikshank, Daniel, Danover, Daugherty, Davis, Day, De Yong, Dick, Dierker, Doering, Drollinger, Dunn, Ellis, Faeth, Fletcher, Foggy, Foster, Frailey, Geese, Click, Gray, Haessig, HalTner, Hamill, Hamilton, Harnagel, Hart, Hazen, Hemraings, Henkle, Henn, Hesse, Heying, Hill, Hobbs, Hoffman, Hollingsworth, Hollowell, Holmes, Honadel, Hornish, Hosier, Hott, Houston, Hubenthal, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde, Irwin, Jacoby, Jenkins, Jewell, Johnson, Johnston, Johnstone, Joy, Judy, Junge, Kammerer, Keethler, Kennedy, Kent, Keokuk Industrial Association, Kern, Kiel, Kilbourne, King, Kirch, Klopfenstein, Koller, Krebill, Krehbiel, Landis, Lange, Leazer, Lee, Leveling, Logan, Lohman, McCann, McKee, Markle, Meddaugh, Meents, Meigs, Meyer, Miller, Moorhead, Nagel, Newlon, Nichols, Overton, Paul, Paul, Pease, Pechstein, Peebler, Peterson, Phillips, Philpott,
Pohlmeyer, Pond, Pranger, Racey, Rand, Reeves, Renard, Rice, Rich, Richey, Richmond, Riddle, Rix, Robers, Roberts, Robertson, Rogers, Rousseau, Rovane, Rowe, Rudd, Rump, Sage, Sallander, Sanders, Satterly, Sawyer, Scherfe, Schoene, Schulte, Schweer, Scovel, Seamans, Sherlock, Siemer, Sims, Skyles, Sloat, Smith, South, Starkweather, State Central Savings Bank, Stellern, Sternberg, Stevens, Stewart, Storms, Struthers, Sullivan, Summers, Swan, Taber, Thomas, Tieke, Tower, Traverse, Trimble, Tucker, Urfer, Van Ausdall, Van Hyning, Vaughan, Vogt, Walker, Walljasper, Weber, Weil, Wenke, Wiesemann, Williams, Wilson, Wirsig, Woodmansee, Wustrow, Wustrow, Younkin, Zaiser,