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

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 – Volume set published in 1914.

History

of

Jefferson  County,

Iowa

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

By Charles J. Fulton

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

CHICAGO

S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.

1914

(940 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.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

Volume 1

CONTENTS

Chapter I. The discovery of the Mississippi 
Chapter II. The naming of Louisiana 
Chapter III. The dividing of Louisiana 
Chapter IV. The territory of Iowa 
Chapter V. The establishment of Jefferson County 
Chapter VI. Jefferson County: The land 
Chapter VII: The Indians 
Chapter VIII. The first settlers 
Chapter IX. In the beginning 
Chapter X. The land survey 
Chapter XI. Cedar Township 
Chapter XII. Round Prairie Township 
Chapter XIII. Lockridge Township 
Chapter XIV. Walnut Township 
Chapter XV. Penn Township 
Chapter XVI. Black Hawk Township 
Chapter XVII. Liberty Township 
Chapter XVIII. Buchanan Township 
Chapter XIX. Center and Fairfield Townships 
Chapter XX. Locust Grove Township 
Chapter XXI. Polk Township 
Chapter XXII. Des Moines Township 
Chapter XXIII. Acquiring title 
Chapter XXIV. The seat of justice 
Chapter XXV. Organizing the county 
Chapter XXVI. Making a county seat 
Chapter XXVII. The first court 
Chapter XXVIII. Roads 
Chapter XXIX. In territorial days 
Chapter XXX. The state constitution 
Chapter XXXI. The voters of 1848 
Chapter XXXII. Common schools 
Chapter XXXIII. Early county fairs 
Chapter XXXIV. The state fairs 
Chapter XXXV. The coming of the railroad 
Chapter XXXVI. Growth and development 
Chapter XXXVII. The politics of 1856 
Chapter XXXVIII. The Lincoln campaign 
Chapter XXXIX. The prelude to war 
Chapter XL. The soldiers 
Chapter XLI. War times 
Chapter XLII. More railroads 
Chapter XLIII. Progress 
Chapter XLIV. A statistical review 
Chapter XLV. The official list 

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 Achenbach, Alston, Anderson, Ankrom, Archibald, Ashmead, Bailey, Baldridge, Ball, Bankhead, Barnes, Barrow, Bartholomew, Bates, Benn, Bennett, Birt, Bishop, Black, Boos, Bowermaster, Bradfield, Bradshaw, Bray, Bright, Brown, Bruey, Calhoun, Campbell, Carlborg, Carlson, Carr, Cary, Cassel, Chester, Clark, Clarke, Cochran, Collins, Conlee, Conner, Cornell, Crail, Crile, Cummings, Curtis, Danielson, Davidson, Davis, Doogan, Droz, Du Bois, Duttweiler, Easton, Emmons, Erickson, Flinspach, Fordyce, Fourt, Frame, Fray, Fritz, Fryer, Fulton, George, Gilchrist, Ginther, Gobble, Goughnour, Graber, Hanson, Hawk, Heer, Heron, Heston, Hochuly, Hogan, Hopkirk, Horton, Howard, Huglin, Humphrey, Humphreys, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Junkin, La Tourette, Laughlin, Leech, Leggett, Lewis, Liblin, Linder, Linderson, Locke, Long, Louden, McChesney, McCornick, McCracken, McKee, McKemey, McLean, Mann, Maring, Mealey, Merckens, Messer, Metz, Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moorman, Murphey, Myers, Neibert, Newland, Norton, ODean, Overstrom, Pattison, Pearson, Pfeiffer, Power, Quick, Radley, Randall, Raney, Rauscher, Ready, Reeder, Regester, Rider, Ridgway, Rizor, Robinson, Ross, Roth, Rowntree, Ruggles, Rupp, Russell, Salts, Samuelson, Schillerstrom, Simmons, Smith, Smithburg, Snook, Spalding, Sparks, Speer, Spielman, Starr, Stephenson, Stewart, Stout, Supernois, Swanson, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Thorne, Trabert, Tuller, Turney, Van Nostrand, Wagoner, Walgren, Wallace, Ward, Watkins, Webb, Weller, West, Westenhaver, Whitham, Wilhermsdorfer, Wilson, Wolfe, Woolums, Wright, Zeigler, Zillman