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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1912.

 

 

History and Biography

of

Linn County,

Missouri

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

CHICAGO

HENRY TAYLOR & CO.

Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers

HENRY TAYLOR, Jr. WM. H. BINGHAM

1912

 

(790 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

CHAPTER I - General Description of Linn County

CHAPTER II - Missouri's Admission as a State

CHAPTER III - The Settlers Markets

CHAPTER IV - The Era of Prosperity

CHAPTER V - The Great Drought of 1854

CHAPTER VI - First Linn County Fair

CHAPTER VII - How Linneus Was Named

CHAPTER VIII - The Nations Wars

CHAPTER IX - Railroads of Linn County

CHAPTER X - The Brunswick. Linneus and

Milan Plank Road

CHAPTER XI - Assessed Valuation of Linn County in 1881

CHAPTER XII - Educational—The Civil War Depression

CHAPTER XIII - The Press of Linn County

CHAPTER XIV - Human Interest Chapter

CHAPTER XIV - Human Interest Chapter

CHAPTER XVI - Brookfield, By Charles Willis Green

CHAPTER XVII - Locust Creek Drainage System      

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

 

 

Allen, Anderson, Adams, Ambs, Bailey, Baker, Balcom, Ballard, Bargar, Barnes, Baskett, Beauchamp, Beckett, Beekwith, Berkholder, Belshe, Bettelheim, Bigger, Bond, Borland, Botts, Bowden, Bolling, Bowyer, Boyles,  Bradley, Brendahl, Bresnehen, Brinkley,  Brott, Brown, Brownlee, Broyles, Bruce, Buckley, Bunch, Burch, Burdall, Burke, Burns, Burris, Bushnell, Calhoun, Carlon, Carpenter, Carter, Clarke, Clark, Clements, Clinefelter, Clough, Coates, Coffman, Cotter, Cramer, Cullen, Davis, DeGraw, Deininger, Dodd, Duncan, Early, Ehrich, Ellis, Englehart, Eure, Evans, Evertson, Fain, Fetty, Fields, Fitch, Fore, Fowlor,  Fox, Frakes, Fruin, Gibson, Glasgow, Glenn, Gooch, Good, Goodwine, Gould, Green, Gress, Griffeth, Griffin, Haley, Halliburton, Hamilton, Hansen, Hansmann, Harter, Hartman, Hatfield, Hemmings, Hendricks, Hess, Hier, Hinton, Holcer, Howard, Howell, Hughes, James, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Joyce, Kathan, Kelley, Kendrick, Kerr, Kinney,  Kling, Knight, Lambert, Lamme, Lancaster, Lander, Lawson, Lewis, Libby, Linhart, Littrell, Lloyd, Lockhart, Lomax, Loomis, Ludden, Luyster, McAllister, McCormick, McCullum, McDonnell, McGhee, McGregor, McKinney, Martin, Mason, Maxwell, Merchant, Miller, Moore, Moorman, Mullins, Murrain, Neal, Neece, Newsom, Ogan, O’Neill, Oven, Palmer, Parks, Parsons, Patrick, Peery, Pendleton, Perrin, Perry, Phillips, Poison, Post, Potter, Powers, Pratt, Prewitt, Purdin, Putman, Randolph, Rankin, Ransom, Read, Richardson, Rinehart, Robbins, Robinson, Rowland, Schrock, Savers, Scott, Selleck, Sensenich, Sensintaffar, Sharp, Shifflet, Shoup, Sidebottom, Smith, Smither, Sornberger, Spalding, Spencer, Standly, Stauber, Stephens, Stockwell, Stone, Sturtevant, Swan, Tayler, Taylor, Tharp, Thomas, Thompson, Thome, Thudinm, Tooey, Tormey, Tuite, Van Dyke, Walby, Walkup, Ware, Watson, Welsh, West, Whaley, Wheeler, White, Wilber, Williams, Wilson, Withers, Wood, Woollen, Wolfe, Zurcher,