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.
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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,