Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Henry County Illinois





Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1916, 294 pp. This is a reproduction on CD and is searchable.

Farm directories can be a gold mine of information for the genealogist. They contain:
  • Farmers Directory - This contains the name of farmer, spouse and children, how many acres he farms, if he owns or rents the land and the year he moved to the county. Often this is the year the farmer was born.
  • Ads
  • Breeders Directory - in order by type of livestock.
  • Business Directory - for each small town.
  • Articles on farming.
  • Photos.
    • Court House
    • Several Schools with children
    • Bartz Boys
    • Gradert House
    • Ed Larson Farm
    • Sieben Farm
    • Lyon's Farm
    • Fassett House
    • Frank Haynes & Andrew Hulting
    • Peterson's Farm
    • Johnson's round barn
    • Pobanz Farm
    • Hadley's triple garage
    • Yager Farm
    • Caverly's boars
    • Gernant Farm

Henry county is in western Illinois and is surrounded by Rock Island, Mercer, Knox, Stark, Bureau and Whiteside counties. The county seat is Cambridge. Other towns are Atkinson, Kewanee, Galva, Geneso, Woodhull, Orion, Annawan, Hopepool, Ophiem, Andover and Lynn Center

About the CD: This CD provides the genealogist the opportunity to have access to information from a book that is difficult to locate in the used book market. The CD was made by scanning an original copy of the book. Any defect such as notes in the margin or light text will also appear in the CD version. The CD requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file. When viewing on your screen the page size can be increased to make reading easier. This CD is searchable and has a series of bookmarks making navigation through the file easier. The CD is packaged in a protective sleeve.

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