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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of:

 

Past and Present of Lucas and Wayne Counties

Iowa

 

(Over 320 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.

 

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and

Achievement

THEODORE M. STUART

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

VOLUME I

 

CHICAGO

THE S. T. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1913

 

 

 

Volume 1 Table of Contents as shown:

 

LUCAS COUNTY

 

Organization of County

Physical Characteristics

Municipal Divisions

The Record

Courthouse

Statement of Pioneers

The Mormons

The Indians

City of Chariton

Other Towns

Russell

Derby

Orders and Societies

Churches of Chariton

Early Courts

Lucas County Historical Society

First Settler in County

First Trial Jury

First

Official Salaries

William McDermitt

Land Agents

Street Railway

Political Record

War Record

Intoxicating Liquors

Schools

Free Public Library

Banks of Lucas County

Women's Clubs

Chariton Fire Company

Newspapers

Criminal History of County

Water Works and Electric Light

County Poor Farm

Weather Reports

Agriculture

Railroads

Coal

Retrospective View

 

WAYNE COUNTY

 

Early History

Claim Society

Game, Etc

Organization of County

First Court

Courthouse

Boundary Line Controversy

War Record

Captain William M. Little's Letters

Courts of Wayne County

Lynch Law

Criminal Records

Women's Clubs

Intoxicating Liquors

Towns of Wayne County

Seymour

Corydon

Allerton

Lineville

Other Towns

Humeston Schools

Townships

Area of County

Churches

Political Index

The Press

Corydon's Fiftieth Anniversary

 

 

 

 

INDEX OF BIOGRAPHIES IN VOLUME 2:

 

Adams, Allen, Allison, Ashby, Baker, Barger, Barker, Bartlett, Bell, Benway, Bixby, Black, Bond, Brewer, Brinegar, Brown, Buck, Burchett, Burgett, Busselle, Chandler, Cherryholmes, Clark, Clinton, Clore, Cobb, Combs, Comstock, Conner, Conrad, Copeland, Craig, Croston, Davis, Dicks, Dillman, Doze, Earnest, Elliott, Elmore, Evans, Exley, Farr, Ferrel, Fleenor, Freeland, Fry, Fuller, Gardner, Garratt, Garton, George, Gibbs, Gittinger, Givens, Goodrich, Gray, Grimes, Gwinn, Hawkins, Henry, Hickok, Hinchliff, Hine, Hitt, Hogue, Holt, Howard, Humeston, James, Jeffries, Jones, Keller, Kent, Kerby, Kimple, King, Kingery, Kyner, Larimer, Leehart, Lemley, Lewis, Lipe, Lohr, Lowe, Lugar, McCauley, McCoy, McCulloch, McGuire, McKibben, McKinley, McMains, McNay, Matkin, Miles, Mitchell, Moser, Mundell, Murrow, Niday, Norman, Oehlman, Parkin, Patterson, Perkins, PettyJohn, Pfrimmer, Phillips, Pim, Pittard, Porter, Poston, Pray, Primm, Pulley, Ream, Rice, Richman, Riker, Rogers, Ruby, Sanders, Schnebly, Scott, Sefrit, Shriver, Skidmore, Smith, Snuggs, Sproatt, Sprow, Stark, Stearns, Steele, Sterett, Stiles, Stirling, Stuart, Sturgeon, Surbaugh, Swanson, Tavlor, Tedford, Tedrick, Thomas, Thorne, Troutman, Van Dyke, Vorhies, Wachtler, Walker, Washburn, Werts, West, Westfall, Wheeler, williams, Wilson, Wolverton, Woodman, Wyatt,