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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 – Volume set published in 1909.

 

History

of

Washington County

Iowa

 

From the First White Settlements to 1908

 

By HOWARD A. BURRELL

 

Also Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

VOLUME I.

 

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1909

 

(1150 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. - EVOLUTION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY

CHAPTER II. - OUR PREDECESSORS.

CHAPTER III. - INDIANS AND MOUND-BUILDERS.

CHAPTER IV. - STILL FARTHER BACK.

CHAPTER V. - INVENTORY OF THE PIONEER PERIOD.

CHAPTER VI. - GETTING ON—LAND.

CHAPTER VII. - TOWNSHIPS IN DETAIL.

CHAPTER VIII. - COUNTY OFFICES AND FINANCES.

CHAPTER IX. - ROADS—TERRITORIAL, COUNTY, AND RAILROADS.

CHAPTER X. - CHURCHES—RELIGION.

CHAPTER XI. - SCHOOLS EDUCATION.

CHAPTER XII. - INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

CHAPTER XIII. - COURT, BAR, CRIME, ACCIDENTS.

CHAPTER XIV. - FRATERNAL AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS, ETC.

CHAPTER XV. - BANKING, INSURANCE, ETC.

CHAPTER XVI. - HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK THERE?

CHAPTER XVII. - "WHERE ARE WE AT?"

CHAPTER XVIII. - POLITICS, CAMPAIGN'S, ELECTIONS.

CHAPTER XIX. - WASHINGTON' COUNTY IN WAR.

CHAPTER XX. - OMNIBUS—SKETCHES, ETC.

 

 

 

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 

 

 

Adams, Anderson, Alberson, Alexander, Allen, Applegate, Armstrong, Arnold, Arthaud, Ashby, Augustine, Auld, Ayers, Bailey, Ball, Bartholomew, Bauer, Bear, Beauchamp, Benz, Bidwell, Birney, Bishop, Blickensderfer, Blumenstein, Booth, Bottenfield, Bovee, Boyer, Braden, Bradford, Brinning, Brook, Brookhart, Brown, Bryson, Buckley, Bulger, Bunker, Bush, Byers, Carr, Carson, Casey, Cherry, Cherryholms, Chittum, Cocklin, Coe, Coffey, Cole, Conner, Craig, Cress, Critz, Crumpacker, Curl, Cushman, Davidson, Davies, Dayton, Deen, Delong, Desing, Deuker, Dewey, Dey, Dixon, Donaldson, Dorrance, Downing, Dye, Eckhardt, Edwards, Eichelberger, Eicher, Eitermiller, Elder, England, Essley, Eyestone, Fesler, Fleming, Forman, Foster, Frain, Frits, Gardner, Godlove, Goodspeed, Gorden, Graham, Gray, Griffin, Griffith, Guzeman, Hagist, Hamilton, Harding, Harper, Hart, Hasty, Heck, Henderson, Hood, Horning, Haiber, Huber, Huff, Hull, Hunter, Hyde, Ihrig, Jackson, Jacobsmeier, Johnson, Jones, Keating, Keck, Kendall, Kennedy, Kerr, Kiburz, Krebs, Kueneman, Latta, Laubach, Leonard, Lewis, Lins, Livingston, Logue, Longwell, Luithly, Lukavsky, McCleery, McElroy, McFarlane, McGee, McKinney, McLaughlin, McMillan, Manatt, Manners, Mapel, Maresh, Marr, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Matthess, Maunhardt, Maxwell, Mayer, Meyer, Miller, Moomey, Moore, Moothart, Morgan, Morrow, Myers, Nagley, Needham, Nelson, Nichols, Nicola, Ohlfield, Ohltield, O'Loughlin, Ott, Overfelt, Palmer, Parkinson, Parks, Patterson, Paul, Pearson, Phillips, Pimme, Prizer, Pulver, Rath, Rawson, Reed, Reeves, Reiner,

Reynolds, Rickey, Risk, Ritchey, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Robison, Rodman, Romine, Russell, Sands, Schilling, Schmelzer, Scbnoebelen, Schulty, Scofield, Seeley, Shaffer, Shaver, Shaw, Sigler, Simpson, Singmaster, Sitler, Skola, Smith, Squire, Steel, Steiner, Stephens, Stewart, Stichter, Stoutner, Struble, Stuart, Sueppel, Taylor, Terry, Therion, Thomas, Thorne, Timmins, Tipton, Tracy, Trotter, Trumbauer, Turkington, Van Siekle, Vincent, Wakelee, Waldschmidt, Walker, Wallingford, Walton, Wead, Weekly, Wells, Whetstine, White, Wickham, Wilde, Williams, Willson, Wilson, Wolcott, Wombacher, Wood, Woodburn, Woodford, Work, Young,