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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2 Volume set published in 1915.

 

History

of

Adair County,

Iowa

And It’s People

 

 

LUCIAN M. KILBURN

SUPERVISING EDITOR

 

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

 

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

 

 

CHICAGO

THE PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1915

 

700 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 * 

 

VOLUME 1

CONTENTS

 

 

CHAPTER I - FIRST INHABITANTS OF ADAIR COUNTY

CHAPTER II - ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF ADAIR COUNTY

CHAPTER III - THE COUNTY SEAT WAR

CHAPTER IV - MILITARY HISTORY OF ADAIR COUNTY

CHAPTER V - PROGRESS OF EDUCATION

CHAPTER VI - THE BENCH AND BAR OF ADAIR COUNTY

CHAPTER VII - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

CHAPTER VIII - HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES

CHAPTER IX - GREENFIELD TOWN AND TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER X - SUMMERSET TOWNSHIP AND FONTANELLE

CHAPTER XI - ORIENT TOWN AND TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XII - SUMMIT TOWNSHIP AND CITY OF ADAIR

CHAPTER XIII - BRIDGEWATER TOWN AND TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XIV - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XV - RICHLAND TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XVI - JACKSON TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XVII - LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XVIII - HARRISON TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XIX - GROVE TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XX - EUREKA TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXI - PRUSSIA TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXII - WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXIII - GRAND RIVER TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXIV - UNION TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXV - WALNUT TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXVI - LEE TOWNSHIP

CHAPTER XXVII - MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER XXVIII - GEOLOGICAL REPORT ON ADAIR COUNTY

 

 

 

VOLUME 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 

Abbott, Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baker, Bancroft, Barnett, Barr, Baudler, Beaman, Beaver, Bennett, Bevercombe, Bevington, Boehler, Bolton, Brawdy, Breen, Brezo, Broadfoot, Brooks, Brown, Bruner, Buchholz, Burg, Butler, Butts, Cahow, Cass, Chadwick, Chapman, Christensen, Clark, Clayton, Comly, Conway, Courter, Cowden, Craven, Crozier, Darrow, Diars, Dickey, Diers, Dorsey, Dunbar, Dunlap, Dutro, Dwigans, Dwinell, Eatinger, Edwards, Ehrenfried, Evans, Eversull, Ewing, Eymann, Faber, Farquhar, Faurote, Fay, Ferber, Fitzgerald, Flickinger, Foster, Frese, Fritz, Funke, Garner, Gerken, Gettis, Gibb, Gibson, Gilbert, Gillett, Gitzy, Glade, Goetz, Gordon, Graves, Green, Greenbeck, Gruber, Hadley, Hainline, Handley, Hanks, Hannon, Havens, Hemphill, Hendry, Hennessy, Hepler, Herbert, Herrick, Heuckendorf, Hoakison, Hofmann, Holcomb, Hollen, Holmes, Hoskins, Howe, Hubbard, Hulbert, Jacobs, Jeffryes, Jensen, Johnson, Jones, Kading, Kellenberg, Kembery, Kilburn, Kluever, Knapp, Kneip, Kosar, Kramer, Kreis, Kreps, Lambi, Lane, Langtitt, Larue, Launder, Lewis, Lilly, Lint, Low, Lowden, Lowe, Luers, Lynch, Lynn, McCampbell, McClain, McClure, McCollom, McCoy, McDermid, McDermott, McKee, McManus, Macy, Mangels, Martin, Mayer, Meisenheimer, Mensing, Metzger, Michael, Miller, Moore, Morgan, Musmaker, Neese, Nelson, Neville, Newton, Nissen, Norton, Oshel, Overholt, Palma, Patera, Paxton, Pearce, Pease, Perkins, Peters, Piper, Plymesser, Pope, Porter, Pote, Powel, Power, Priddy, Proctor, Purdy, Putney, Queck, Raasch, Ramsbottom, Raper, Rater, Ray, Rechtenbach, Reed, Reid, Reis, Renner, Rice, Ridout, Rigg, Ritter, Rivenburgh, Roark, Roberts, Robinson, Rohuer, Roos, Rostat, Russell, Sackett, Samuelson, Savage, Sawyers, Schroder, Schutt, Schwanebeck, Scofield, Sears, Seeley, Sexsmith, Shad, Shade, Shepherd, Sidey, Silverthorn, Silverthorne, Slocum, Smith, Stacy, Steele, Stelling, Steward, Strong, Sturdy, Sullivan, Swartz, Sweet, Tannatt, Tharp, Thiele, Tieknor, Ticknor, Tiedemann, Tilk, Timmons, Tinsman, Tracy, Treichler, Tuttle, Underwood, Untiedt, Varley, Wakefield, Waltz, Wambold, Ward, Warren, Warrior, Weaver, Weinheimer, Westphal, Whittum, Wiley, Wilson, Wimraer, Winn, Wolfe, Wood, Worthington, Young, Zellmer, Zietlow, Zimmerline, Zook,