What a wonderful look at life in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Greene, Missouri and its people.
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History
of
Greene County,
Missouri
WRITTEN AND COMPILED
FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE SOURCES, INCLUDING A HISTORY OF ITS
TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS AND VILLAGES,
TOGETHER WITH
A CONDENSED HISTORY OF MISSOURI; THE CITY OF ST. L0UIS; A RELIABLE AND DETAILED HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY—ITS PIONEER RECORD, WAR HISTORY, RESOURCES, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT CITIZENS; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS OF GREAT VALUE, AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF LEGAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
MATTER; INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES,
GRAVE, TRAGIC AND HUMOROUS.
ILLUSTRATED
St. Louis:
Western Historical Company
1883
920 pages on 1 CD
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CONTENTS
HISTORY OF MISSOURI.
CHAPTER I.
The Louisiana Purchase— Brief Historical Sketch
CHAPTER II.
Descriptive and Geographical
CHAPTER III.
Geology of Missouri
CHAPTER IV.
Title and Early Settlers
CHAPTER V.
Territorial Organization
CHAPTER VI.
Admission into the Union
CHAPTER VII.
Missouri as a State
CHAPTER VIII.
Civil War in Missouri
CHAPTER IX.
Early Military Record of the State
CHAPTER X.
Agriculture and Mineral Wealth
CHAPTER XI.
Education —The Public School System
CHAPTER XII.
Religious Denominations
CHAPTER XIII.
Gov. Crittenden's Administration
HISTORY OF ST. LOUIS.
From 1762 to 1882 —Leading Institutions, etc
LAWS OF MISSOURI.
Public and Personal Rights, Legal Forms, etc.
STATISTICS.
Population, Vital, Industrial and Political Statistics
HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
Pioneer History
CHAPTER II.
From the Organization of the County to 1840
CHAPTER III.
History of the County from 1840 to 1850
CHAPTER IV.
History of the County from 1850 to 1856
CHAPTER V.
History of the County from 1856 to 1860
CHAPTER VI.
From 1860 to the "Goose Pond" Meeting, June 11, 1864
CHAPTER VII.
From the Meeting of the Military in June, to the Battle of Wilson's Creek
CHAPTER VIII.
The Battle of Wilson's Creek — The Union or Federal Account
CHAPTER IX.
The Battle of Wilson's Creek — Concluded
CHAPTER X.
From the Battle of Wilson's Creek to the Close of 1861
CHAPTER XI.
History of the County During 1862
CHAPTER XII.
History of the County in 1863 — Battle of Springfield
CHAPTER XIII.
From 1864 to the Close of the Civil War
CHAPTER XIV.
History of the County from 1865 to 1870
CHAPTER XV.
History of the County from 1870 to 1875
CHAPTER XVI.
History of the County from 1875
CHAPTER XVII.
Geology of Greene County
CHAPTER XVIII.
Biographies of Some Prominent Citizens
TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.
CHAPTER XIX.
Walnut Grove Township
CHAPTER XX.
Boone Township
CHAPTER XXI.
Center Township
CHAPTER XXII.
Pond Creek Township
CHAPTER XXIII.
Brookline Township
CHAPTER XXIV.
Wilson Township
CHAPTER XXV.
Clay Township
CHAPTER XXVI.
Washington Township
CHAPTER XXVII.
Taylor Township
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Cass Township
CHAPTER XXIX.
History of The City of Springfield
CHAPTER XXX.
Affairs in 1863
CHAPTER XXXI.
Resume of the City's History from 1876 to 1886
CHAPTER XXXII.
North Springfield
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Campbell Township
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Franklin Township
CHAPTER XXXV
Jackson Township
CHAPTER XXXVI
Robberson Township
Addenda
Biographical Index
Abbott, Acuff, Alexander, Anderson, Appleby, Arrington, Austin, Bacon, Bailey, Bair, Baker, Balay, Baldwin, Barclay, Barnes, Barrett, Baxter, Beal , Bearden, Beckerleg, Beer, Bennett, Benson, Berry, Betson, Biggs, Bishop, Blackman, Blackwell, Blades, Blanchard, Bobbitt, Bodenhamer, Boone, Bossert, Bowerman, Boyd, Brewer, Britain, Brockman, Brown, Buck, Buttram, Camp, Campbell, Carson, Carter, Cass, Clark, Claypool, Clayton, Cliborne, Cloud, Coffey, Coltrane, Conlon, Cooper, Coover, Cordray, Cox, Crane, Cravens, Crawford, Criswell, Crutcher, Culbertson, Dabbs, Dalrymple, Danforth, Davis, Dawley, Day, Delaney, Dillard, Dingeldein, Dishman, Dobbs, Dodson, Donnell, Dryden, Duncan, Eckstorm, Edmundson, dwards, Egan, Elson, Elwood, Emery, Epley, Epperson, Escott, Evans, Eversol, Fain, Fairbanks, Fay, Fellows, Ferguson, Fielder, Fine, Fletcher, Forshee, Foster, Frame, Frazier, Freeman, Fryar, Gardner, Garoutte, Garton, Garwood, Gates, Geiger, Geister, Gibson, Gideon, Gilmore, Glover, Gott, Gottfried, Grantham, Gray, Grist, Gubler, Gurley, Hackney, Haden, Hall, Hamblen, Harralson, Haseltine, Hasler, Hasten, Haswell, Hawkins, Haydon, Heacker, Headlee, Headley, Heckart, Heer, Heffernan, Hendrix, Herman, Higgins, Hill, Hobart, Holland, Holman, Hornbeak, Horning, Hosey, Hosman, Hovey, Howell, Hoyal, Hubbard, Hubble, Hudgings, Hulse , Huntington, Huston, Hyde, Ingram, Jackson, James, Jenkin, Jessup, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Julian Kanada Kanning, Kaufholtz, Kearney, Keener, Keet, Kelly, Kennedy, Kerr, Kersey, Killingsworth, Kime , King, Kinney, Kirby, Kirkham, Kroff, Lacy, Laker, Lamb, Lambeth, Langston, Larew, Leslie, Likins, Lisenby, Lohmeyer, Long, Longcrier, Love, Lowdermilk, Lydon, Lyman, Mack, Macloskey, Mannel, Mansfield, Marsh, Martin, Marx, Mason, Massey, McAdams, McAdoo, McCabe, McCammon, McCarty, McCauley, McCleary, McCluer, McCollah, McCracken, McCraw, McCrory, McDaniel, McElhanon, McElhany, McGown, McKenna, McKerall, McKibben, McLean, McLemore, McMaster, McMehen, McPherson, Means, Melcher, Merritt, Miller, Milner, Moist, Monaghan, Moore, Morhiser, Morice, Morrow, Morton, Mount, Murphy, Murray, Neaves, Neiswanger, Nelson, Newbill, Newton, Nichols, Noe, Noleman, Norfleet ,Norris, Nutt, O'Day, Odell, O'Neal, Onstott, Owen, Paine, Painter, Palmer, Park, Parker, Parrish, Patterson, Paxson, Peacher, Perkins, Perryman, Pettitt, Phelps, Pierce, Piper, Plank, Pollack, Porter, Price, Prigmore, Prophet, Prunty, Putnam, Quicksell, Quisenberry, Rand, Rathbone, Rawdon, Rea, Redfearn, Reynolds, Rice, Riggs, Ritter, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Rothschild, Rountree, Ruby, Rule, Russell, Sander, Savage, Schmook, Schuller, Schultz, Shephard, Sheppard, Sherwood, Shipman, Shockley, Short, Sibley, Simmons, Sims, Sittler, Skelton, Smith, Snow, Snyder, Sommers, Speaker, Spencer, Sprague, Sprinkle, Squibb, Staley, Steele, Stevenson, Stewart, Stones, Stoughton, Stringer, Sutter, Swinney, Tatum, Tevis, Thies, Thomas, Thompson, Thoms, Tisdell, Townsend, Tracy, Travers, Tribble, Turner, Tuttle, Utter, Van Bibber, Vaughan, Vaughn, Vinton, Waddell, Wade, Wadlow, Walker, Ward , Warner, Watson, Watterson, Watts, Weaver, Weir, Wentworth, West, White, Wiley, Wilhoit, Williams, Wilson, Wood, Woodward, Worrell, Wright, Zink,
