What a wonderful look at early life in the mid-west.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Black Hawk County and it's people.

 

2 Books on 1 CD !

 

1)History of Black Hawk County, Iowa and its People – Volume 1 – 1915

 

2)History of Black Hawk County, Iowa and its People – Volume 2 – 1915

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

HISTORY

OF

BLACK HAWK COUNTY,

IOWA

AND ITS PEOPLE

 

JOHN C. HARTMAN

SUPERVISING EDITOR

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

VOLUME 1

 

Chicago

The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company

1915

(430 pages)

Table of contents:

 

CHAPTER 1 - GEOLOGY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

 

CHAPTER 2 - EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY.

 

CHAPTER 3 - ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF COUNTY.

 

CHAPTER 4  - EARLY TOWNSHIP HISTORIES

 

CHAPTER 5 - REMINISCENCES

 

CHAPTER 6 - MILITARY HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

 

CHAPTER 7 - THE CITY OF WATERLOO

 

CHAPTER 8 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF CEDAR FALLS

 

CHAPTER 9 - HISTORY OF LA PORTE CITY

 

CHAPTER 10 - OTHER TOWNS

 

CHAPTER 11 - HISTORY OF EDUCATION

 

CHAPTER 12 - HISTORY OF RELIGION AND CHURCHES

 

CHAPTER 13 - ROADS AND RAILROADS

 

CHAPTER 14 - WATERWAYS AND BRIDGES

 

CHAPTER 15 - THE BENCH AND BAR OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

 

CHAPTER 16 - INDUSTRIES

 

CHAPTER 17 - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

 

CHAPTER 18 - ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND CATTLE AND DAIRY INDUSTRY

 

CHAPTER 19 - CLIMATOLOGY

 

CHAPTER 20 - REPRESENTATIVE MEN

 

CHAPTER 21 – MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

HISTORY

OF

BLACK HAWK COUNTY,

IOWA

AND ITS PEOPLE

 

JOHN C. HARTMAN

SUPERVISING EDITOR

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

VOLUME 2

 

Chicago

The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company

1915

(490 pages)

 

INDEX

Alford, Altstadt, Andrews, Anton, Arey, Armagost, Armstrong, Arnett, Arthur, Bahr, Bailey, Ballou, Baro, Barrett, Baum, Becker, Bedford, Benedict, Benser, Bentley, Berg, Bernardy, Bernbrock, Berry, Bickley, Bicknell, Black, Blackledge, Blough, Boies, Bopp, Bornong, Bovee, Brandes, Broad, Bronson, Brown, Brunn, Bryan, Bryant, Buehner, Bunn, Burger, Burgess, Burk, Burkett, Burt, Byvank, Canfield, Cannon, Carson, Cass, Chamberlain, Chaplin, Cheney, Clark, Cleveland, Cole, Crisp, Crowell, Culley, Cutler, Dawson, Dayton, Dean, Deeming, Degon, DeMott, Dempster, Demuth, Dietrick, Doak, DuMond, Dunham, Dunn, Eddy, Eigenmann, Eighmey, Eklund, Ellis, Emert, Eyestone, Fay, Fehl, Ferguson, Fike, Finch, Flint, Foss, Foster, Foulk,  Fowler, Francis, French, Fullerton, Galloway, Garrettson, Gates, Gibbons, Gibson, Given, Gleason, Glenny, Glessner,  Goodfellow, Goodrich, Green, Grout, Hacker, Hall, Hanna, Hansen, Harrington, Hartman, Haselman, Hazlett, Headford, Hellen, Henderson, Herren, Hey, Highland, Hitchcock, Hitchins, Hoff, Hoffmann, Hogan, Holden, Hollis, Hoover, Hoppe, Howrey, Hoxie, Hukill, Humphrey, Huntoon, Huppert, Hutcheson, Jaynes, Jepsen, Johnson, Kascht, Keane, Keller, Kelly, Kenvon,  Kimball, Kingslsy, Kline, Knapp, Knipp, Knittel, Knox, Kober, Koeneke, Koepke, Koester, Krensky, Lamb, Lamson,  Landgraf, Langlas, Laughlin, Lauritzen, Law, Lee, Leighton, Lemmer, Leversee, Lichty, Life, Lindner, Lizer, Lunemann, McAlvin, McChane, McCoy, McDonnell, McElhinney, McManus, McNaughton, Magee, Martin, Mead, Messer, Messinger, Miller, Mitchell, Montague, Moore, Morgan, Mornin, Morris, Morrison, Moses, Mullan, Mussett, Myers, Mythaler, Nash, Nation, Nauman, Neff, Nemmers, Nesbit, Newton, Nichols, Northrup, O'Conner, O'Keefe, Ortner, Parker, Parks, Parsons, Paulsen, Perkins, Perrin, Peterson, Pett, Pettit, Pickett, Pint, Place, Plumb, Pummer, Ponsford, Powers, Quest, Rainbow, Ralston, Rath, Ravnaond, Reid, Renter, Rhoades, Rice, Ricker, Riensche, Ritz, Roberts, Robinson, Rodamar, Russell, Rust, Sadler, Santee, Schares, Schenk, Schildmeier, Schmitt, Schmitz, Sedgwick, See, Seerley, Sells, Sherwood, Shippy, Shockley, Shoemaker, Sias, Sigworth, Simmons, Simpson, Sinnard, Slippy, Smelser, Smith, Snowden, Snyder, Sny, Soash, Spurr, Steils, Stetzel, Stetzel, Stewart, Stillwagon, Stover, Stuart, Swisher, Tedford, Teeter, Thompson, Tritz, Trumbauer, Turnipseed, Tuthill, Van Dyke, Van Pelt, Van Valkenburg, Van Vleck, Vaughan, Virden, Voorhees, Wagner, Wangler, Waterbury, Weiland, Welty, Wenner, Wild, Williams, Wilson, Wright, Youngblut, Zook,