What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s.  This USB Flash Drive contains stories of the local townships of Lake County and its people.

This is a scanned copy on 8GB USB Flash Drive of the original Book published in 1904.

Encyclopedia

of

Genealogy and Biography

of

Lake County,

Indiana

 With a Compendium of History

1834-1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T.H. BALL

OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO   NEW YORK

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

1904

(670 pages)

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.

This book is SEARCHABLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I. - Outline history of Lake County, Indiana from 1834 to 1850
Chapter II. - The railroad period. Outline history from 1851 to 1904 
Chapter III. - Memorial sketches of early settlers 
Chapter IV. - Names of women of whom honorable mention should be made 

SURNAMES LISTED IN THE INDEX

Ackerman, Adams, Agnew, Allman, Ames, Asche, Atkinson, Ausley, Ayers, Babbitt, Bacon, Bader, Bailey, Baker, Ball, Banks, Barker, Barr, Barrett, Batterman, Bauer, Beattie, Beckman, Bell, Belman, Belshaw, Berg, Biggs, Black, Blakeman, Bliss, Bohling, Borger, Borman, Bothwell, Boyd, Bradford, Brandenburg, Brandt, Brannon, Brennan, Bridge, Brown, Brownell, Bryant, Buckley, Buczkowski, Buse, Campbell, Carlin, Castle, Chartier, Cheney, Chester, Chipman, Church, Clark, Cleveland, Cochran, Conrad, Conroy, Cox, Crumpacker, Dickinson, Dinwiddie, Woescher, Dwyer, Earle, Eddy, Eder, Edgerton, Ege, Einsele, Einspahr, Fancher, Farley, Farrington, Farwell, Fieler, Fiester, Fisher, Foster, Fowler, Franz, Friedrich, Fry, Frysinger, Fuller, Gavit, Gerlach, Gerrish, Gibson, Gilbert, Gill, Glover, Grant, Graves, Greene, Greenwald, Griffin, Griffith, Grimmer, Gromann, Gruel, Guyer, Hack, Hale, Halfman, Halsted, Hammond, Harrison, Hart, Hathaway, Hayden, Hayes, Hayhurst, Hayward, Herlitz, Hershman, Hess, Higgins, Hill, Hillman, Hipsley, Holmes, Holton, Hornor, Hornecker, Hoskins, Huber, Humphrey, Hurlburt, Hutton, Ibach, Iddings, Irish, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kammer, Keilman, Kelly, Kelsey, Kenney, Kimmet, Kitchel, Klaas, Knotts, Koehle, Kolb, Kopelke, Kozacik, Krinbill, Krost, Krudup, Larson, Lash, Lauerman, Little, Livingston, Love, Luther, Lynch, Lyons, Mandernach, Marvin, Mason, McAleer, McCarty, McDonald, McGlashon, McKnight, McMahan, Meeker, Meikle, Merrill, Metcalf, Meyer, Meyers, Michael, Miller, Morey, Muenich, Murphey, Muzzall, Nelson, Nichols, Owen, Palmer, Pattee, Patten, Patterson, Patton, Pearce, Pelton, Pettibone, Pierce, Pixley, Plummer, Pratt, Pulver, Reiland, Reilly, Rhodes, Richards, Rifenburg, Rimbach, Robbins, Robinson, Rockwell, Rowins, Sanders, Sasse, Sauerman, Saunders, Sawyer, Saxton, Schaaf, Schaefer, Schafer, Scharbach, Scherer, Schmal, Schrage, Scoffern, Scritchfield, Seehausen, Servis, Sharrer, Sheerer, Sherart, Sherman, Sigler, Smith, Spear, Spalding, Spry, Stark, Stearns, Stephens, Sternberg, Stuppy, Sturtevant, Summers, Sunderman, Suprise, Sutton, Swanson, Swartz, Sykes, Take, Taylor, Templeton, Thiel, Thompson, Torrey, Towle, Traptow, Turner, Underwood, VanDewalker, Van Horne, VanLoon, Vansciver, Vilmer, Voltmer, VonHollen, Wagonblast, Walsh, Warriner, Warwick, Wason, Wells, Wheeler, Whiting, Wiggins, Wille, Willey, Wise, Wood, Woods, Worley, Yeoman, Youche, Young, Zumbuelte