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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of:

History of

Decatur County Iowa

And Its People

PROF. J. M. HOWELL and HEMAN C. SMITH

SUPERVISING EDITORS

ILLUSTRATED

 

VOLUME I and VOLUME 2

 

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1915

 

 

(Over 700 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. -  Early Settlement of Decatur County

Chapter II. -  Organization of Decatur County

Chapter III.  - Summary of County Officials

Chapter IV. -  Hamilton Township Before the War

Chapter V.  - About New Buda and the Hungarians

Chapter VI. -  Decatur's War Story

Chapter VII. -  Roster of Decatur County Soldiers who Served in the Civil War

Chapter VIII.  - Progress of Education in Decatur County

Chapter IX. -  Graceland College

Chapter X.  - The City of Leon

Chapter XI.  - The Founding of Lamoni and the Work of The Order of Enoch

Chapter XII.  - The Beginning of the Latter Day Saints Church

Chapter XIII.  - Early Settlement at Garden Grove

Chapter XIV.  - Decatur County Towns

Chapter XV.  - Politics in Decatur County

Chapter XVI.  - The Medical Profession

Chapter XVII.  - History of the Legal Profession

Chapter XVIII.  - The Names of Decatur County Streams

Chapter XIX.  - Miscellaneous

Chapter XX.  - Geology of Decatur County

 

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Ackerley, Akers, Albaugh, Alexander, Anderson, Arney, Arnold, Ashbach, Ashburn, Badham, Bailey, Banta, Barger, Barr, Barrows, Bathe, Bell, Bevins, Biggs, Black, Blair, Bolon, Bonnett, Bowman, Boyd, Brenaman, Brenizer, Briggs, Brown, Burchett, Burgess, Burnett, Campbell, Carrel, Chastain, Cherry, Church, Churchill, Clark, Cozad, Craig, Crees, Creveling, Crum, Dancer, Davis, Deemer, Derry, Dillon, Dobozy, Edwards, Eiker, Estes, Evans, Farquhar, Fierce, Foerman, Foxworthy, France, Frazier, Frost, Fullerton, Gammon, Garrett, Gates, Gaunt, Gill, Grenawalt, Griffith, Grimes, Gunsolley, Haag, Haas, Hagen, Hamilton, Hammer, Harmon, Harvey, Hazlet, Hedlund, Hill, Hollinger, Hollister, Holloway, Holt, Hopkins, Horner, Hurst, Jamison, Johnston, Jones, Judd, Keller, Kelly, Kerrins, Keshlear, Kindred, King, Latta, Layton, Lee, Lorey, Lovell, McBroom, McClaran, McCutchan, McDiffit, McDonald, McGinnis, McGraw, McGuire, McIntosh, McKibben, McLaughlin, McMorris, McWilliams, Machlan, Mallette, Mallory, Manchester, Mannasmith, Martin, Mather, Maxwell, Midgorden, Miller, Milligan, Mills, Moon, Neveln, Newcomb, Nicholson, Nish, Noftsger, Norman, Northrup, Ordway, Peck, Phelps, Piercy, Pitkin, Poland, Radnich, Rains, Reed, Rew, Rhodes, Richardson, Robertson, Robinson, Rowell, Sankey, Scott, Shakespeare, Shewmaker, Shields, Shira, Slauter, Smith, Spargur, Sparling, Stearns, Stebbins, Stephens, Stolberg, Stookey, Stover, Stuteville, Sutherlin, Teale, Thomas, Thompson, Thorp, Townsend, Turner, Turpen, Varga, Wailes, Walker, Walton, Warnock, Weld, Wernitch, West, Wiley, Williams, Wilson, Wion, Young, Youngs