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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 Volume set published in 1907.

History of

Pottawattamie County,

 Iowa

From the Earliest Historic Times to 1907

By HOMER H. FIELD and HON. JOSEPH R. REED

 

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME I and VOLUME 2

 

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1907

 

 

(1200 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 * 

 

CONTENTS

Volume I - Historical

Founding of council Bluffs
Mormons
Early Residents
Schools
First Murder
Prominent Early Settlers
Other Settlers
Civil War
Early Affairs
A False Prophet
Indian Creek
Flood of 1881
Veterans' Reunion
Courthouse and Jail
Early Characters
Consecutive Events
First Automobiles
Grape Growers' Association
Manufacturers
Churches
Hospitals
Iowa School for Deaf
Western Iowa College
Public Schools
Lodges
Light Guards
Fire Department
Music in the Bluffs
Parks
Public Library
County Bar
Cemeteries
The Press
Townships

Volume II - Biographical

BIOGRAPHICAL SURNAMES

Aldridge, Allee, Allen, Allensworth, Allingham, Andersen, Anderson, Annis, Ashley, Atkins, Augustine, Axtell, Ayer, Aylesworth, Baird, Bardsley, Barnes, Barton, Bates, Battey, Baustian, Beatty, Bellinger, Bender, Bennett, Beno, Bergman, Berkshire, Bernhardi, Beymer, Binder, Blake, Blank, Boiler, Bolton, Bonham, Booth, Borwick, Bowman, Bradley, Brandes, Brooks, Brown, Bruce, Bruning, Buell, Bunnell, Burke, Burkey, Bushnell, Camp, Canning, Capell, Carson, Casady, Cheyne, Children, Childs, Christian, Clark, Clausen, Consigny, Converse, Craig, Crandall, Crellin, Crossley, Crow, Cutchall, Cutler, Dammrow, Davenport, Davis, Dea, Dean, Deetken, De Haven, De Long, De vol, Dewey, Dingman, Dirgo, Dodge, Droge, Dryden, Dudley, Duerr, Dunkle, Durfee, Dutrow, Dye, Eckel, Eggers, Eichenberger, Elliott, Erickson, Etnyre, Fair, Farnsworth, Fehr, Felt, Felton, Fender, Fenlon, Ferguson, Field, Fisher, Fleming, Fletcher, Flickinger, Floerchinger, Foote, Fox, Frank, Franz, Frazier, Frederickson, French, Frost, Frum, Galvin, Gardner, Garner, Gasson, Gathmann, Geiger, Geise, Gerner, Gibson, Giese, Gilbert, Gillmore, Gittins, Goff, Goodrich, Goodwater, Gordon, Grace, Graham, Green, Greene, Greenshields, Gregg’,Groneweg, Gross, Grote, Gunnoude, Haas, Habicht, Hadfield, Hafer, Hagedorn, Hager, Hahn, Hamann, Hammer, Hansen, Hardin, Harding, Harle, Harrison, Harsch, Hart, Hatch, Hatswell, Hazelton, Hazen, Heesch, Henn, Hess, Hetrick, Heuwinkel, Hieber, Hills, Hinz, Hoff, Hollenbeck, Holmstrom, Holst, Hombach, Horn, Hosler, Hough, Houghtaling, How, Howell, Hubbard, Hunter, Husz, Igram, Ives, Jackson, Jacobson, Jenks, Jennings, Johnk, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Juirgensen, Kahl, Kauke, Kay, Keast, Keeline, Keller, Kelley, Kierch, Kimball, Kincaid, Kirkwood, Kirscht, Klahn, Klopping, Knight, Knowles, Kohlscheen, Koll, Krueger, Kuhn, Kullbom, Kusgen, Lacey, Langer, Lehnhardt, Lemen, Lenocker, Leonard, Lewis, Liggett, Linder, Lippold, Lischer, Lodge, Long, Lougee, Louie, Lunkley, Lyman, McAneney, McClaskey, McClure, McCullough, McCune, McDonald, McDowell, McGee, McGinty, McKee, McKeown, McLean, McManus, McMillen, McMullen, McNay, Maassen, Macrae, Maguire, Maier, Maloney, Marshall, Marti, Martin, Marxen, Mass, Matheson, Matthies, Mayne, Meitzen, Meredith, Mergen, Merriam, Meyer, Meyers, Michelson, Miller, Minick, Minnick, Mischler, Mitchell, Moeller, Morgan, Morse, Moss, Muller, Mundorf, Mynster, Myrtue, Neumann, Neumayer, Nicholson, Nicoll, Niemann, Nixon, Norton, Oamek, O'Donnell, Officer, Ohlendorf, O'Keefe, Olderog, Olney, Olsen, Olson, O'Neill, Orcutt, Orr, Osborn, Osler, Otto, Ouren, Overman, Owens, Palmer, Parker, Patterson, Peregoy, Perry, Peters, Petersen, Peterson, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pilling, Plahn, Platner, Plumb, Potter, Prentice, Preston, Price, Pritchard, Purdy, Putnam, Rankin, Rarey, Read, Rebehm, Reed, Renard, Rice, Richard, Rief, Roane, Robinson, Rock, Rodenbough, Rogers, Rohrer, Rohrs, Ronna, Rothert, Rust, Saar, Sanford, Sapp, Sarr, Saunders, Schnackel, Schnorr, Schoening, Schoentgen, Schofield, Schultz, Scott, Searle, Sharples, Sheely, Sheets, Sherer, Sherraden, Shinn, Shively, Shoemaker, Shugart, Shuttleworth, Sides, Simon, Smith, Snapp, Snyder, Southern, Spalti, Spangler, Spears, Spencer, Sperling, Starts, Steel, Steinkopf, Stempel, Stephan, Stevenson, Stilwell, Stitt, Strohbehn, Strong, Stuart, Stude, Stuhr, Stull, Sundell, Swingle, Talbott, Taylor, Terry, Terwilliger, Throp, Tinley, Tittsworth, Tobey, Toller, Trede, Treynor, True, Tulleys, Turner, Tyler, Unangst, Van Beck, Van Ness, Van Order, Van Pelt, Vien, Volkens, Wadsworth, Wager, Walker, Walters, Ward, Ware, Warner, Wasser, Waterman, Watson, Weirich, Welch, Wells, White, Wiese, Williams, Wilson, Wineland, Wise, Wittland, Woodmancy, Woodring, Young, Zentmire