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Iowa Atlases, Gazetteers, Maps, Plat Books, and Farm Directories

Huebinger’s Map and Guides

The Huebinger series of automotive publications were popular a century ago as adventurous motorists braved the primitive roads and uncertain terrain of Iowa and beyond. Noted landmarks on these road-maps include schools, houses, churches, piles of stumps, unusual rocks, cemeteries, and windmills. Today, these map collections are actually history books showing how towns and cities have developed, roads have changed, and some communities have disappeared.

State of Iowa

Iowa Biographies

  • History of Adair County Iowa and Its People, vol 2
    Back in 1915, Lucian Moody Kilburn, was engaged to write a history of Adair County Iowa by the Pioneer Publishing Company of Chicago Illinois, he then being at that time a resident of the county for 50 years. The manuscript was divided into two volumes. This volume, numbered 2, provides biographical sketches of 348 leading men and women of the County of Adair including many of its founding families. You can read or download the free eBook.
  • Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa
    The full manuscript contains a condensed history of the state of Iowa, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the state of Iowa, a descriptive history of Story county and 229 selected biographical sketches of the citizens of Story County, Iowa.
  • Ida County, Iowa Genealogy
    Biographies specific to Ida County that were extracted from numerous sources.
  • Biographical sketches of the 25th General assembly of Iowa
    Biographical sketches of the state officers and Iowa members of Congress for the session during 1894.

Iowa Cemetery Records

Iowa Census Records

Iowa Church Records

Iowa Directories

Iowa Genealogy

Iowa Genealogy Websites

United States GenWeb Project

Adair, Clay, Hancock, Madison, Sac, Adams, Clayton, Hardin, Mahaska, Scott, Allamakee, Clinton, Harrison, Marion, Shelby, Appanoose, Crawford, Henry, Marshall, Sioux, Audubon, Dallas, Howard, Mills, Story, Benton, Davis, Humboldt, Mitchell, Tama, Black Hawk, Decatur, Ida, Monona, Taylor, Boone, Delaware, Iowa, Monroe, Union, Bremer, Des Moines, Jackson, Montgomery, Van Buren, Buchanan, Dickinson, Jasper, Muscatine, Wapello, Buena Vista, Dubuque, Jefferson, O’Brien, Warren, Butler, Emmet, Johnson, Osceola, Washington, Calhoun, Fayette, Jones, Page, Wayne, Carroll, Floyd, Keokuk, Palo Alto, Webster, Cass, Franklin, Kossuth, Plymouth, Winnebago, Cedar, Fremont, Lee, Pocahontas, Winneshiek, Cerro Gordo, Greene, Linn, Polk, Woodbury, Cherokee, Grundy, Louisa, Pottawattamie, Worth, Chickasaw, Guthrie, Lucas, Poweshiek, Wright, Clarke, Hamilton, Lyon, Ringgold, UNKNOWN

American History and Genealogy Project

Buena Vista, Calhoun, Delaware, Harrison, Linn, Monona, Monroe, Pocahontas, Sac, Wayne, Woodbury

Iowa History

  • Sagas of the Hawkeyes : being stories and incidents of early Iowa
    These articles about history in Iowa have been culled from old newspapers, local histories and biographies and were published in 1945 as a manuscript..
  • IGS Certificates (Pioneer, Statehood & Century)
  • Annals of Iowa (1863-2014)
    A quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of history published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.
  • Irving Weber’s Iowa City History Articles
    In January 1973, at the age of 72, Irving Weber (1900-1997) began writing articles on local history for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Over the next 25 years the paper published 850 of his weekly columns. Half of the columns were reprinted in eight volumes titled Irving Weber’s Iowa City. This digital collection provides the complete set of Weber’s newspaper columns, either in their original formats or as reprinted in the books.
  • Iowa Pioneer Lives
    Letters, diaries, and photographs documenting the lives of Iowa’s first white settlers, mid- to late-19th century.
  • Looking backward on Hawkeyeland
    A reissue of the May 1947 printing, which is a revision and enlargement, prepared for the Iowa Centennial Committee, of an article published in the Morrell magazine, Dec. 1946.
  • Our Iowa : its beginnings and growth
    The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Cumulative index, volumes I-XL, 1903-1942
  • One hundred years of Iowa medicine, commemorating the centenary of the Iowa State Medical Society, 1850-1950
    Iowa medicine prior to 1850. Iowa State Medical Society. The presidents, 1850-1950. Official branches of the State Society. City, district and county medical associations. Medical education in Iowa. Medical journalism in Iowa. Hospitals in Iowa. State Society Iowa Medical Women, and Branch 19 American Medical Women’s Association. Woman’s Auxiliary to the Iowa State Medical Society. Iowa State Medical Library. The doctor in Spanish American War, World War I, World War II. Iowa State Board of Health and Medical Examiners. Growth of psychiatry in Iowa. History of nursing in Iowa. Public health nursing. History of pharmacy in Iowa. Diary (1850-1913) of Dr. J.M. Shaffer, Keokuk. The Centennial session.
  • The first 75 years: History of education in Iowa
    State Responsibility for Teacher Education in Iowa. Government and Maintenance of the Institution. The Faculty; Selection, Compensation, Tenure, Retirement. Scope and Limitation of the Institutional Program. The Program of Pre-Service and In-Service Education Teachers. The Students: Government, Social Education, and Extracurricular Activities.
  • History of P. E.O. in Iowa
    P. E. O. is a society for women founded by seven students at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1869.
  • History of Adair County Iowa and its People – vol 1
    Back in 1915, Lucian Moody Kilburn, was engaged to write a history of Adair County Iowa by the Pioneer Publishing Company of Chicago Illinois, he then being at that time a resident of the county for 50 years. The actual general history of the county, however, was prepared by Gordon K. Miller. The manuscript was divided into two volumes. This volume, volume 1, provides the general history of Adair County that Mr. Miller prepared. You can read or download the free eBook from this website.

Iowa Land Records

  • U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
    3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
  • Arizona Land Patents online. Index.

Iowa Locality Genealogical Records

Adair County, Iowa Genealogy

  • Adair County, Iowa Grave Registration
    Transcribed in 1939. These grave transcriptions are compiled from all cemeteries in Adair County and then listed by surnames. Should make finding a particular person easier when the cemetery is not known.
  • Middle River Homestead
    Written by Ernest Almon Smith and published in 1955. A history of his family and their settlement in Adair County, Iowa.
  • Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 13
    Volume 13 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1929. First marriage records for Adair, Calhoun, David, Mahaska, and Poweshiek counties; early settlers of Johnson county; History of Bethel Methodist Church, Sigourney; Mayflower list of passengers; first wills of Jefferson county; Genealogies of the Alden, Applegate, Atwood, Beaumont, Cozine, Eddy, Fuller, Hardenbergh, Higgins, Leech, Marshall, McCaddon, McHenry, Pierce, Pratt, Safford, Sampson, Smith, Stevens, Teater, Teter, Waldron, West, Wing, and Wormley families.

Adams County, Iowa Genealogy

Allamakee County, Iowa Genealogy

  • Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 1955
    Volume of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1953. Early wills of Allamakee County, 1854-1881; Early wills of Black Hawk County, 1853-1881; Record of Wills of Mahaska County up to 1900; Abstracts of wills, guardianships, and estates in Poweshiek County up to 1900; Woodbury County Will Book A, 1856-1885, Will Book B, 1880-1889.

Appanoose County, Iowa Genealogy

Audubon County, Iowa Genealogy

  • Audubon County, Iowa Grave Registration
    Transcribed in 1939. These grave transcriptions are compiled from all cemeteries in Audubon County and then listed by surnames. Should make finding a particular person easier when the cemetery is not known.

Benton County, Iowa Genealogy

  • Pioneer recollections
    Stories and pictures depicting the early history and development of Benton county, selected from the family albums and libraries of the descendants of the pioneers of the county. Also stories as written or dictated by these residents, from records in their possession or tales related to them by their parents. Compiled by Harley Ransom and published in 1941.
  • History of Benton County, Iowa
    Compiled from materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical society’s collection, the newspapers, and data of personal interviews. Compiled under the editorial supervision of Mr. Luther B. Hill, General Historian, and a corps of local editors. Published in 1910 by Lewis Publishing Company. Poorly photocopied book.
  • 1872 Atlas of Benton County, Iowa
    Drawn from actual surveys and the county records, to which is added a rail road map of the state of Iowa
  • Benton County, Iowa Records
    Contains marriage records from the Congregational Church of Belle Plaine, Iowa, 1896-1957 and cemetery records from four different cemeteries located in Benton County: Bear Creek Cemetery, Cox Cemetery, Keisling Cemetery, and Urbana Cemetery. There is an index to the cemeteries found on pages 25-26, but no index to the marriage records.
  • Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 3
    Volume 3 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1927. Marriage records from Black Hawk, Jones, Keokuk, Linn, Muscatine, and Wapello counties; court records of Muscatine County; history of Cass County; Genealogies on the Arnold, Cantwell, Hatfield, Clark, Curtis, Goodrich, Harvey, Hopkins, Hutchinson, Kellogg, Moorman, Newhouse, Painter, Pasco, Rogers, Ryan, Speer, Stone, Wheeler, and Wright families.
  • Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 10
    Volume 10 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1928. Grave records [cemeteries] from the following counties: Black Hawk, Benton, Clayton, Dallas, Hardin, Henry, Humboldt, Marion, Story, and Woodbury.
  • Iowa Genealogical Records – DAR Vol 41
    Volume 41 of the Iowa Genealogical Records compiled by DAR in 1937. Cemetery records from Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Butler, and Bremer counties. Also lists the 1859-1881 Bremer County marriage records.
  • Iowa Marriage Records
    Consists primarily of D.A.R. records comp. from 1932-1955.
    • pt. 1 Marriage records from Christ Methodist Church, Belle Plaine, 1878-1954, Benton Co.
    • pt. 2 Marriage register no. 2, Buchanan Co. 1859-1865.
    • pt. 3 Lucas Co. marriages, 1881-1899.
    • pt. 4 Marriages in Mahaska Co., 1844-1851.
    • pt. 5 Union Co. marriage records, 1855-1880.
    • pt. 6 Genealogical Dept. records of the early pioneers of Slaughter or Washington Co., 1836-1932; from newspaper records

Grundy County, Iowa Genealogy

Beaman Genealogy

Hancock County, Iowa Genealogy

  • History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
    History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Harrison County, Iowa Genealogy

Ida County Genealogy

Kossuth County, Iowa Genealogy

  • History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
    History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Story County, Iowa Genealogy

  • Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa
    The full manuscript contains a condensed history of the state of Iowa, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the state of Iowa, a descriptive history of Story county and 229 selected biographical sketches of the citizens of Story County, Iowa.

Webster County, Iowa Genealogy

Winnebago County, Iowa Genealogy

  • History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa
    History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa together with sketches of their cities, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent persons, and 641 biographies of representative citizens. Also included is a history of Iowa embracing accounts of the pre-historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history.

Iowa Military Records

Iowa Native American Records

Iowa Vital Records

  • Iowa Vital Records
  • Iowa Vital Records
    Various records reporting on marriages as well as wedding anniversaries [probably extracted from newspapers, though source is not listed]. The content is arranged alphabetically by personal names.

Iowa Yearbooks

  • Drake University Yearbooks 1901-1994
  • University of Iowa’s Hawkeye Yearbook 1892-1992
    Published from 1892 until 1992 (except for a brief interruption during the 1970s), The University of Iowa’s Hawkeye yearbook features student portraits, photographs of the campus, club and team information, and frequently a foreword by the administration. These documents highlight the continuity and change of life on The University of Iowa campus during late 19th and 20th centuries. Please note that from 1892-1946 the yearbook was a project of the junior class and therefore editions from that time were dated to reflect the class’s graduation year, not the year of publication.

Kullman, Axel E. – Obituary

AN AGED CITIZEN PASSED TO HIS REWARD Axel E. Kullman was born in Sweeden, Sept. 18, 1853, and died at the home of his son Will, in Cherokee, where he was visiting on June 22 at the age of 76 years, 9 months and 4 days. Mr. Kullman was married to Augusta Johnson in Sweeden in the year 1878. To this union were born eight children; a daughter and his wife preceded him in death. The surviving children are Mrs. Roy Northrup of Monterey Park, Calif., Mrs. Olga Hodgdon of Sioux City, Mrs. Floyd Sherwood of Sac City, Axel and…

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Kullman, Augusta Katherine Peterson – Obituary

Augusta Katherine, daughter of John Peterson, was born in Sweden October 24, 1857 and died at the hospital in Ida Grove, Iowa, July 17, 1920 aged 62 years, 8 months and 23 days. She was married to Axel Kullman in 1879 and the next year they came to America and located at Wall Lake, Iowa, where they made their home until her death. Mrs. Kullman was the mother of eight children of whom one has preceded her to the far beyond. She leaves to mourn her death a loving husband and seven children: Mrs. Roy Northrup, of Chicago, Mrs. Floyd…

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Goehring, Lewis – Obituary

Lewis Goehring, 83, died at his home, 223 North Marion Street, Tuesday [October 22, 1935] at 7:30 p.m. after a long illness. He was a veteran grain merchant. Mr. Goehring was born in New York City, March 11, 1852, coming to this section of Iowa when he was 2 years of age. He was engaged in the grain business with Jones & Buchanan, later with the W. E. Jones Co., and with E. M. Robertson. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World and a charter member of the Modern Woodman. He was also a member of the…

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Andre, Thomas Jefferson, Dr. – Obituary

Dr. Andre Answers His Last Summons After Doing Good to Mankind for More than Forty Years, Dr. T. J. Andre Goes Down the Long, Long Trail The news of the earthquake in California was not half so startling as the news on Tuesday morning that Dr. Andre had passed away at about 4 o’clock that morning after an illness of only a few hours, of angina pectoras. On Monday evening he had an attack of the trouble and for a time was quite sick but appeared recovered from it and was feeling considerable better Tuesday. Dr. Armstrong came over from…

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Baker, Daniel Henry – Obituary

Word was received here last night of the death of a well-known former Mt. Pleasant man. Mr. Henry Baker passed away at the home of his daughter in Aurora, Ill, with whom he had been staying for the last few months [March 23, 1909]. Mr. Baker had not been in good health for some time prior to his death, and but a short time ago he suffered a severe paralytic stroke form which he partially recovered but which was the ultimate cause of his death. He will be brought here from Aurora tomorrow and the funeral services will be held…

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Lee, Harley Essex – Obituary

Kansas City–Harley E. Lee, one of the five Lee brothers who founded the old Lee Hotel, now the Huckins, Oklahoma City, died Monday [June 13, 1960]. He was 75. Lee was prominent in real estate and investment and moved here from Oklahoma City in 1922. He developed one of the leading housing developments in Leewood, a suburb of Kansas City. He and his four brothers became partners in Oklahoma real estate in the early 1900s. Lee was a native of Ottumwa, Iowa. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Stiner and McClure Funeral Home. Burial will be at 1…

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Wolfe, Edith May Byram – Obituary

Edith May Byram, daughter of Rev. F. N. and Tabitha [McEwen] Byram, was born in Murray County, Minn., May 14, 1872, and in 1874 removed with her father’s family to Fremont, Iowa. Here she attended school and grew to womanhood, and was married to F. Wolfe on December 13, 1892. To this union four children were born – Walter Rex, Carl Vernon, Ralph Donavan, and infant daughter Marjorie Bitha, who with the bereaved husband a a large circle of friends and relatives, are left to mourn her untimely death; yet they mourn not as those that have no hope. The…

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Linsley, Vesta Phillippe – Obituary

Visitation: Open after 2:00 PM with family present between the hours of 6:00 and 8:00 PM February 29, 2008 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Funeral Service: 10:00 AM March 01, 2008 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Interment: Cedar Township Cemetery, Fremont, Iowa Vesta Linsley, 97 formerly of the Fremont-Hedrick area passed away February 25, 2008 at Crystal Heights Care Center in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Vesta was born January 30, 1911 the daughter of Asa G. Phillippe and Carrie Amelia Lawson Phillippe. She graduated from Fremont High School in 1928 and attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa where she received her teaching certificate. She…

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Basse, Wilhelm – Obituary

Wilhelm Basi [Basse] was born in Langfjord, Norway, May 19, 1869. He was the son of Erick and Stena Basse. He received his education in the schools of Norway and came to the United States in 1888 as a member of the United States Reindeer Expedition. In 1901 he was married to Wilhelmina Jacobson. They moved to Centerville in 1902 and resided on a farm in that area until 1926 when he retired and moved to Clatskanie, Ore., where he accepted the pastorate of the Finnish Lutheran Church. He returned to Centerville in 1944 as pastor of the Centerville Lutheran…

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Wallis, Georgia E. Linn – Obituary

Though it had been know for several years the Mrs. J. C. Wallace was in failing health, the announcement of her death Friday morning came as a surprise and shock to the community. she had just lived on uncomplaining to a place where her resistance failed and she was carried to the other world. Georgia E. Linn, daughter of Sylvester J. and Katie Linn, was born 6 March 1870, at Aurora, Illinois, and came with her parents to Harrison County Iowa, at the age of three months. They established the Linn homestead on the east bank of Linn Lake, only…

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Wallace, Micheal – Obituary

On Thursday last, 28 August 1890, Michael Wallace, another of Harrison County’s old settlers passed over the life line to death after a brief illness of about ten hours. He was taken with cholera morbus, subsequently follow, by a congestive chill, from which the grand old hero never recovered. Mr. Wallace was born in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, 9 October 1823, was a collier by trade and was engaged in that business until he left and came to this part of the country. In the spring of 1855, arriving in Omaha, Nebraska, he worked there during the summer of 1855, and…

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Sharpnack, Mrs. W. M. – Obituary

Funeral services for Mrs. W. M. Sharpnack were held at Modale Church of Christ last Saturday afternoon, with T. H. Jeys of Nevada, Iowa in charge. Internment was made in Calhoun cemetery. Music was furnished by a quartet composed of Mr. and Mrs. David Wiltse, Mrs. Geo. Parker and Mr. will Lockling, with Miss Neita Harvey as pianist. The death of Mrs. Sharpnack came as a great shock to old friends and relatives here, who were concerned about the condition of Mr. Sharpnack, forgetting the weaken condition of his wife. The casket, together with the family arrived on the flyer…

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Bryson, Charlotte (Peffley) – Obituary

Charlotte May Bryson, 95, of 605 Bryant St., died Saturday at Park Manor Nursing Home. She was born in Waubeek, Iowa, on July 16, 1880, and came west with her parents and family by train to Cove, Ore., in 1886. She attended Ascention School in Cove and later taught school for several terms in Eastern Oregon. She attended Whitman College Academy in 1902 and 1903, and later taught at Valley Grove, Whitman Station and Slater, Wash. On June 30, 1907 she married Elmer D. Bryson in Pasco. The couple homesteaded in the Touchet area and lived there until 1918 when…

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Davis, Sam – Obituary

Sam Davis, one of Aitkins county’s most progressive farmers, passed away Tuesday night at his farm home a few miles northeast of town. The end came after a long period of illness, the last eight months of which he spent most of the time confined to his bed. Mr. Davis was but 59 years old at the time of his death and during the years he had lived here he had built up one of the most attractive farms in the county. He and Mrs. Davis were among the pioneers in the turkey industry. Their birds had become know in…

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Iowa World War 2 NMCG Casualty List

Inclusion of names in this Iowa World War II Casualty List has been determined solely by the residence of next of kin at the time of notification of the last wartime casualty status. This listing does not necessarily represent the State of birth, legal residence, or official State credit according to service enlistment. Casualties listed represent only those on active duty in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, resulting directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from December 7, 1941, to the end of the war. Casualties in the United States…

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Iowa Cemetery Records

Iowa Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Iowa county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing.
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Biography of Jacob Frazier

This pioneer of the wool business in Eastern Oregon, and owner of some of the best buildings in Pendleton, is a native of the Buckeye state (1820), and while but a boy of ten went with his father to Indiana, and as a youth of sixteen to Iowa. In this state, then known locally as the Black Hawk purchase, his father died at the advanced age of eighty-three. In 1850 Mr. Frazer crossed the plains to California with horses, being one of a party of five. This company was made to pay a toll of sugar, flour, etc., by the…

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Biography of Turner Oliver

TURNER OLIVER. – This wide-awake citizen of Union county is the son of Hiram W. Oliver, a biographical sketch of whom is also included in this work. He was born on May 7, 1860, in Iowa; and, although but four years old when crossing the plains, he remembers distinctly some of the exciting incidents of the journey to the Grande Ronde, particularly the pursuit of a band of Indians who were making off with the horses of the train, but upon close pressure were obliged to let go all except those belonging to two Dutchmen, who were in ill odor…

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Biography of David Greiner

DAVID GREINER. – Although the subject of this sketch has not been a resident of this county so long as some, still he is one of the doughty and intrepid pioneers of the adjacent state, having pressed into the unbroken regions of the west in early times, and he has ever wrought for the advancement of the country where he has dwelt, manifesting true wisdom and stanch integrity and faithfulness in all of his endeavors,which have won for him esteem and respect throughout his large acquaintance. Mr. Greiner was born in Ashland county, Ohio, on May 7, 1837, to Martin…

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Biography of Jacob Newman

JACOB NEWMAN. – In the person of the subject of this sketch we have one of the heaviest real estate holders and most progressive agriculturists of the county, and one that has well earned the name of pioneer, having wrought here for forty years. In all this extended time he has displayed stanch, manly characteristics, while his sagacity and untiring labors for the good of all and especially for the advancement of the principles of Christianity in the upbuilding and nourishing of the early church are well known to our citizens. Mr. Newman is the son of George and Barbara…

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