What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Allamakee County and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of:
Past and Present of
Allamakee County, Iowa
A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
By Ellery M. Hancock
ILLUSTRATED
Volume I and Volume 2
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1913
(Over 1100 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:
CONTENTS
Chapter I: Early dawn
Chapter II: Encroaching civilization
Chapter III: The aborigines
Chapter IV: Civil government
Chapter V: Allamakee County
Chapter VI: The old mission
Chapter VII: Early courts
Chapter VIII: Geology of Allamakee County
Chapter IX: Agriculture and manufactures
Chapter X: Politics
Chapter XI: County officers
Chapter XII: The county seat
Chapter XIII: The county press
Chapter XIV: The county bar
Chapter XV: County schools
Chapter XVI: Public utilities
Chapter XVII: A dark chapter
Chapter XVIII: The pioneers
Chapter XIX: Township organization
Chapter XX: History of Waukon
Chapter XXI: History of Lansing
Chapter XXII: Postville and post township
Chapter XXIII: Allamakee in the Civil War
Chronology
Volume 2 Biographical Index:
Biographical Surnames
* surname with more than one individual
** surname with five or more individuals
Alexander, Ames*, Anderson, Arnold*, Asleson, Bachtell, Bakkum*, Barnes, Barr, Barthell*, Beardmore*, Becker, Beede, Behrens, Bell, Bellows, Bender, Beucher, Beutler, Biggs, Bock, Bollman, Bottolson, Bowen, Boyce, Brainard, Brazell, Brennan, Briar, Broderick, Bryson, Bulman, Buntrock, Burdick, Burnham, Busness*, Byrnes, Cavanaugh, Chamberlain, Christiansen, Christianson, Clark*, Collins*, Colsch, Colvin, Conley, Conway*, Cook, Coppersmith, Corrigan, Cummings, Dahl, Dayton*, Decker*, Deemer, Deering, Delaney, Denning, Deremore, Dixon*, Dolphin, Douglass, Dowling, Drake, Dull
Dunning, Dutton, Duval, Earle, Eaton, Ebendorf, Eckert*, Egan, Eide, Eisenla, Ellingson, Ellis, Engebretson, Engelhorn, Ericson, Erwin, Espeland, Evans, Evenmoe, Faegre, Fellows*, Ferguson, Fett*, Folsom, Fossum, Frahm, Franck, Fretheim, Gallagher, Gast, Gericke*, Gilbertson, Gordon, Gramlich, Gregg, Gronna*, Haas, Hagen*, Hager, Hale, Halvorsen, Hamann, Hammel*, Hancock*, Hanks, Hansmeier, Harnack, Harris**, Hart*, Hartley*, Hayes, Hecker, Heffernan, Hefner, Heins, Helming*, Hendrickson*, Herman, Hermanson*, Hertrampf, Hesla, Hilmo, Hirth*, Holahan, Holmes, Holter, Howe, Howes
Iverson, Jacobson*, Jenkins, Johnson*, Jones*, Kane, Kascel, Keenan, Kelly, Kelley, Kerndt*, Kielty, Knudtson*, Kolsrud, Krambeer, Krousie, Krueger, Kruger, Krum, Kruse, Kuester*, Laird, Lamborn, Land, Larkin, Larson**, Lawson, Layer, Leas*, Lenz, Leppert, Letourneau, Leui, Lewis, Livingood, Lloyd, Luce, McCabe*, McClintock, McCrystal, McEwen, McLaughlin, McShane, McWilliams, Marble, Marti*, Martin, May*, Meier*, Meiners*, Melaven*, Melcher, Meyer*, Mielke, Miller, Miner, Minor, Mitchell, Moe*, Molumby, Monserud, Moore, Morstad, Mosier, Murphy, Nagel*, Narum, Nicholson*
Niehaus, Nierling*, Nordgaard, O'Brien, Olson, Orr*, Osmundson, Palmer*, Paulson, Peck, Pederson, Peglow, Peterson, Phipps, Pufahl, Quandahl*, Quillin, Ralston, Rathbun*, Read, Regan, Rema, Ressel, Rider, Riser*, Roberts, Robey, Robinson, Roerkohl, Roffman, Ronan, Rood, Rouster, Rudnick, Rupp, Rush, Russell, Ryan, Sadler, Sander, Satrang, Sawyer, Scannell, Schlitter, Schultz, Schwarzhoff*, Sebastian, Seglar, Segrist, Selberg, Shattuck, Sherman, Simenson, Smith*, Sorum, Spieler, Spinner*, Staadt, Stafford, Steele, Stillman, Stilwell, Stock, Stopperan, Storla, Strelow, Sutter
Svendson, Swenson**, Teeple, Thomas, Thompson*, Thornton, Tilleraas, Tisdale, Topel, Topliff, Troendle*, Van Nice, Wachter, Walsh*, Wampler, Waskow, Waters*, Webb, Webster, Weymiller, Whalen, Wiemerslage, Wild, Wilke*, Willis, Winter, Wintrick, Wuennecke, Wurtzel*