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

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1880.

The

History

 of

Columbia County,

Wisconsin

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF ITS SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES; AN EXTENSIVE AND

MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES—THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES,

MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES; ITS WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL

SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS; THE WHOLE PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, STATISTICS OF THE STATE, AND AN ABSTRACT OF ITS LAWS AND CONSTITUTION

AND OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

Illustrated

by Dennis L. Clark

Chicago
Western Historical Company

1880

1096 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.

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CONTENTS

HISTORY OF WISCONSIN

ABSTRACT OF WISCONSIN STATE LAWS
 
HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY

Chapter I. - Geology
Chapter II. - Topography
Chapter III. - Black Hawk War
Chapter IV. - Early Settlement and Settlers
Chapter V. - Pioneer Reminiscences
Chapter VI. - Politics
Chapter VII. - County Statistics
Chapter VIII. - Illustrious Dead
Chapter IX. - Press, Schools, War Record
Chapter X. - Portage City
Chapter XI. - City of Columbus
Chapters XII - XV. - Towns and Villages of Columbia County

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Abbott, Abell, Ackerman, Adams, Albee, Aldrich, Allegar, Alverson, Anaugi, Andrews, Armstrong, Arnold, Arthur, Ashley, Austin, Ayer, Bailey, Bain, Baird, Baker, Barden, Barkman, Barnett, Barrow, Barry, Bartholomew, Bartl, Batchelder, Bates, Bath, Bauer, Bayerlein, Beach, Bebow, Bell, Bendixen, Bennett, Best, Beyer, Bickelhaupt, Binnie, Bissell, Black, Blackman, Blaisdell, Blake, Blanchard, Blass, Blochwitz, Blumenthal, Bock, Boehmer, Bolte, Bothin, Bowen, Bowman, Bradley, Brannan, Brauckle, Breese, Breuning, Brewer, Brickwell, Briffett, Briggs, Brodie, Brown, Bryce, Buck, Bull, Bullard, Bump, Bunker, Burlingame, Butler, Calverley, Campbell, Cannon, Carnagie, Carncross, Carr, Carson, Cass, Castle, Chadbourn, Chandler, Chapin, Chapman, Chestnut, Chilson, Chipman, Chrisler, Christopher, Churchill, Cleveland, CLARK, Clithero, Closs, Clough, Coapman, Cochrane, Colburn, Coldwell, Cole, Collins, Collipp, Colman, Colonius, Comstock, Cone, Conklin, Conlin, Converse, Cook, Cooper, Cordy, Corning, Cornwell, Coulter, Cox, Craig, Croak, Cross, Croswell, Croumbie, Curtis, Dailey, Dalton, Dassi, Dates, Davie, Davies, Davis, De La Ronde, Dean, Dean, Decker, Dempsie, Dering,DENNIS, Derr, Devlin, Dexter, Dey, Dodge, Dole, Doud, Douglas, Dow, Doyle, Drake, Drew, Duff, Dullaghan, Dunlap, Dunn, Dusenbery, Dusenbury, Dwinnell, Eager, Earll, Eastman, Eaton, Eckert, Edward, Edwards, Eighme, Emder, Emerton, Erhart, Ernsperger, Etten, Evans, Everson, Ewing, Faeber, Fairbanks, Farr, Farrar, Farrington, Federly, Fellows, Fick, Field, Finch, Fink, Fish, Fitzner, Flower, Foote, Forbes, Ford, Forrest, Forsythe, Foster, Fox, Franz, French, Fritz, Froland, Frund, Fuhring, Fuller, Fulton, Gage, Gallett, Galloway, Gamble, Gardner, Garnidge, Gaskill, Gates, Gerstenkorn, Gesell, Gilbert, Gilmore, Goldspohn, Goodall, Goodell, Goodman, Goodyear, Gorman, Goss, Gould, Gowran, Grace, Graham, Graves, Green, Greenleaf, Griffin, Griffiths, Griswold, Grow, Guild, Gunderson, Gunnison, Guppey, Haertel, Hagan, Hains, Hall, Hamilton, Hammond, Hancock, Hand, Harris, Hartman, Hartson, Hasey, Haskell, Haskin, Haskins, Hastie, Hathaway, Hatton, Hay, Healy, Heath, Heldin, Helmann, Henry, Hensel, Hensil, Henton, Hepler, Herreman, Herring, Hettinger, Hewins, Hewitt, Hickey, Hicks, Hill, Hillyer, Hinman, Hobart, Holcomb, Holden, Holdridge, Holly, Holsten, Holston, Hopkins, Horton, Hosken, Hoton, Howe, Howells, Huber, Hudgman, Huebl, Huebner, Huff, Hughes, Hume, Hungerford, Huntley, Hurd, Hurlburt, Hurst, Ingalsbe, Inglehart, Inglis, Irwin, Isaacson, Jackson, James, Jamieson, Jenkins, Jennings, Jerome, Jertson, Jess, Johns, Johnson, Jones, Julson, Kane, Keenan, Keith, Kellogg, Kelly, Kelm, Kennan, Ketchum, Kiefer, Kietzke, Kind, King, Kingsley, Kingston, Kitzbrow, Kleinert, Klemme, Klenert, Kluckhohn, Kluperdanz, Knutsen, Koenig, Krech, Krisch, Kumba, La Rowe, Langdon, Larson, Lashier, Laskey, Lawson, Leatherman, Leffingwell, Lee, Lennon, Leute, Lewis, Lintner, Lione, Little, Lloyd, Lobdell, Lockhart, Loomis, Lovell, Low, Lowth, Ludwig, Luey, Luther, Mackin, Madden, Mahon, Maine, Mair, Maloy, Maltby, Manning, Marsh, Marshall, Marston, Marvin, Maurer, McBurnie, McCall, McCarton, McCloud, McConnell, McConochie, McDonald, McDuffie, McElroy, McFarlane, McGinn, McKeeby, McKenna, McKenney, McKenzie, McKinney, McLeish, McLindon, McQueen, McTiernan, Meacher, Mead, Meddowcroft, Meredith, Meredith, Merrell, Merriam, Mettler, Metzler, Miller, Mills, Moeller, Mohr, Moller, Montgomery, Morris, Morrison, Morse, Moss, Mueller, Muggleton, Muir, Mullencup, Munger, Murison, Murphy, Myers, Mylrea, Nashold, Neef, Neill, Nelson, Newcomb, Newnham, Newton, Nichols, Niemeyer, Noble, Noyes, Odell, O'Keefe, Older, Olson, Ormsbee, Ostrander, Oswald, Oviatt, Owen, Owens, Packard, Padley, Palmer, Paquette, Pardee, Parke, Parkinson, Parr, Parry, Parsneau, Pary, Pate, Patterson, Payne, Peabody, Pease, Pecker, Peckham, Perkins, Perry, Peters, Peterson, Phelps, Phiehler, Phillips, Pixley, Plumb, Porter, Pratt, Prehn, Prentice, Prescott, Price, Prien, Proctor, Pruyn, Pugh, Pulver, Purcell, Purdy, Purnell, Purvis, Quinn, Race, Ramsay, Randall, Rasmus, Reed, Reedal, Rees, Reid, Remus, Ressegue, Reynolds, Rice, Richards, Richmond, Riddle, Riley, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Roblier, Roche, Rockwood, Rogers, Rolleston, Root, Rose, Ross, Rowlands, Rowley, Roys, Rupnow, Russell, Rust, Ruthven, Ryan, Sage, Sanborn, Sanderson, Sandford, Sargent, Scharf, Scherburt, Schneider, Schofield, Schriner, Schultz, Schulze, Schumacher, Scott, Selback, Shackell, Shanks, Sharf, Sharien, Sharp, Shattuck, Shaub, Shaw, Sheehan, Sheret, Sherman, Siewert, Simons, Slinger, Sloan, Smith, Snider, Snoad, Snowden, Spear, Spicer, Spoonam, Sprecher, Squire, St. John, Stahl, Stanley, Staudenmayer, Stearns, Stebbins, Steele, Steinbach, Stephen, Stevenson, Stewart, Stiles, Stillman, Stokes, STOne, Strangeway, Straw, Strong, Stroud, Stuempfig, Sugden, Sutton, Swarthout, Sweaney, Swift, Tarnutzer, Taylor, Tennison, Thayer, Thede, Thomas, Thompson, Tillotson, Tobey, Todd, Tomlinson, Tongen, Topliff, Topp, Torbert, Towers, Towner, Tradewell, Tripp, Trout, Turk, Turner, Twitchell, VaLENtine, Van Dusen, Van Ness, Van Schaick, Vanaken, Vanalstine, Vaughan, Veeder, Versen, Vogel, Von Briesen, Vosburgh, Wah, Wait, Waite, Walker, Ward, Warning, Warren, Waterhouse, Waters, Waterworth, Watson, Webb, Weir, Wells, Wentworth, Whirry, Whitelaw, Whitney, Wier, Wilcox, Willard, Willcox, Williams, Willis, Wilmsen, Wilson, Winch, Wittenwyler, Witter, Womer, Wood, Woodford, Woodhead, Woodley, Woodworth, Wright, Yale, Yanko, York, Young, Youngs, Yule, Zawistowski,

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