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

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 – Volume set published in 1882.

History

of

Floyd County

Iowa

TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ITS CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL,

RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL HISTORY;

PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES

OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO:

INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.

1882

1140 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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Volume 1

Table of Contents

History of Iowa

History of Floyd County

CHAPTER I. - INDIANS AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS

CHAPTER II. - SCIENTIFIC

CHAPTER III. - ORGANIC

CHAPTER IV. - POLITICAL

CHAPTER V. - THE COUUTS AND THE BAR

CHAPTER VI. - CRIMINAL

CHAPTER VII. - MILITARY

CHAPTER VIII. - MILITARY, Continued

CHAPTER IX. - AGRICULTURAL

CHAPTER X. - CENSUS AND FINANCIAL PUOGKESS

CHAPTER XI. - RAILROADS

CHAPTER XII. - EDUCATIONAL

CHAPTER XIII. - LITERARY

CHAPTKR XIV. - THE PRESS

CHAPTER XV. - EMINENT DEAD

CHAPTER XVI. – MISCELLANEOUS

CHARLES CITY

The Beginnings

Early Settlers

Business Men in early days

Manufactories, etc

Improvements Generally.

The Bridge

Charles City Public Schools

St. Charles Graded School

Present Status of the Charles City Schools

Banks

Hotels

Religious

Societies

Miscellaneous

Temperance

In memory of Pres. Lincoln

In memory of Pres. Garfield

Meetings

Casualties

Biographical

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES

Cedar

Floyd

Niles

Pleasant Grove

Riverton

Rockford

Rock Grove

Radd

Scott

St. Charles

Ulster

Union

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Achenbach, Ackley, Adams, Aldrich, Alexander, Allen, Andrews, Ankeny, Anthony, Apel, Arkills, Ash, Asper, Atherton, Austin, Babcock, Bacon, Bailey, Baker, Balch, Ball, Ballard, Baltimore, Baltuff, Burney, Barnum, Barth, Bartz, Beal, Beattie, Beck, Becker, Beelar, Bell, Benedict, Benjamin, Bennett, Berg, Bicknese, Billings, Birney, Bissell, Bleckley, Blunt, Blythe, Boon, Bort, Boulton, Bowdoin, Bowers, Bowls, Bowman, Bowyer, Bradley, Braunton, Briggs, Brill, Brisco, Britton, Broneon, Brown, Brownell, Brunner, Bryan, Bucklin, Bumgardner, Burgess, Burr, Burton, Butler, Campbell, Carbiener, Carney, Carr, Carter, Case, Childs, Clark, Clarke, Clay, Clemens, Cogswell, Cole, Coley, Collins, Colhson, Conner, Cook, Coon, Cott, Cotton, Courtright, Cramer, Crocker, Crowell, Crumb, Cutter, Danforth, Durland, Darland, Darling, Davie, Davis, Dawley, Dean, Dennis, Dinkel, Dodge, Doolittle, Doore, Drager, Dumbolton, Duncan, Duncklee, Durkee, Dutcher, Dyas, East, Eaton, Edwards, Eggert, Egloff, Egnew, Eichmeier, Elliott, Ellis, Engelhart, Esser, Evans, Fairfield, Farnham, Faville, Ferguson, Fiddick, Fisher, Fitch, Fleenor, Flint, Forbes, Forthun, Foster, Franklin, French, Gabel, Gage, Galbraith, Garber, Gates, Gaylord, Gelhaus, Gerhard, Gibson, Giermann, Gilbert, Goddard, Gonser, Goodmiller, Graham, Green, Greenwood, Grierish, Griffin, Griffith, Guilbert, Gutches, Halstead, Hanchett, Hand, Hansburg, Hanson, Hardman, Harrison, Harvey, Harwood, Haughey, Haven, Hayes, Haynes, Heintz, Heintzelman, Hemphill, Henry, Hering, Hewitt, Hildreth, Hirsch, Hoel, Hoffman, Hofmeister, Holbrook, Howard, Howell, Hubbard, Hudson, Huie, Hutches, Hutchinson, Ingram, Inman, Ireland, Jeffrey, Johnson, Jordan, Joslyn, Judd, Judson, Jung, Keister, Kellogg, Kelso, Kelly, Kennedy, Keyee, Kidney, Kilbourne, Kimball, King, Kirley, Klinetop, Knapp, Koch, Koehler, Koehlstaedt, Koerner, Kuck, Lamb, Lambert, Langstaff, Lanphere, Large, Lathrop, Leeson, Leigh, Leland, Lenz, Leonard, Lessin, Lindon, Lindsay, Lines, Lockwood, Lonergen, Longbotham, Losee, Lyon, Makepeace, Manchester, Mansfield, Marshall, Martin, Martzon, Mathers, Mathews, Maxson, McConkey, McEwen, McKenna, McKinney, McKinzie, McNitt, McRoberts, Mead, Merckel, Merriam, Merrill, Merriman, Metz, Meyer, Meyers, Miles, Mills, Miner, Mitchell, Moll, Montrose, Moore, Morris, Morrison, Morse, Murdock, Myers, Naden, Nash, Neel, Nelson, Nevins, Nicholson, Nickerson, Nies, Noble, North, Nye, Oaks, O'Hair, OHara, Owens, Palmateer, Palmer, Palmer, Parsons, Patterson, Payne, Pease, Perrin, Perry, Phelps, Pierce, Pippin, Pitcher, Pomeroy, Poolev, Porter, Powers, Prall, Pribbenow, Pringle, Quinby, Rankin, Raymond, Reams, Reiniger, Rex, Rice, Richards, Riche, Ripley, Robbins, Roberts, Robison, Root, Rose, Rosenkrans, Roziene, Ruddick, Ruggles, Schermerhorn, Schrimager, Schroeder, Schunemann, Scofield, Scott, Seaton, Shafer, Shaw, Shepardson, Sherwin, Schultz, Slocum, Smith, Snyder, Soars, Spencer, Sprague, Staebler, Starr, Stevens, Stewart, Stone, Stoner, Stout, Strawn, Strong, Sullivan, Summers, Sutton, Swartwood, Sweet, Sylvester, Taylor, Teeling, Tift, Timmons, Tostenrud, Town, Towner, Townsend, Towslee, Treadway, Trigg, Tripp, Van Myers, Vietmeier, Voelker, Vorhes, Wadey, Wagnor, Wait, Wallace, Waller, Waterbury, Waterman, Watkins, Welton, West, Wheat, Wheeler, Whitback, White, Whitehead, Whitesell, Whitnev, Wiggins, Wilbur, Wilke, Williams, Wilson, Witzel,  Woelfer, Wood, Woodhouse, Woollev, Worden, Workman, Worsfield, Wright, Wyatt,  Yerrick, Yeomans, Yocum, Young, Young, Zimmar,