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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1910.

 

 

History

Of

Woodford County

 

 

A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT

AND GROWTH OF WOODFORD COUNTY

 

By Roy L. Moore A.B.

 

Eureka, Ill.,

Woodford County Republican

 

1910

 

250 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. Early Indian Population
  Chapter II. Relics of Indian Life
  Chapter III. Settlement of Metamora
  Chapter IV. Walnut Grove Settled
  Chapter V. History of Minonk
  Chapter VI.
Palestine Settled
  Chapter VII. The Settler’s Cabin

  Chapter VIII. Education and religion
  Chapter IX. The county organizes
  Chapter X. The county seat
  Chapter XI. Travel and communication
  Chapter XII. War records
  Chapter XIII. Storms and epidemics
  Chapter XIV. Political views
  Chapter XV. Industrial and Manufacturing
  Chapter XVI. Towns of the county
  Chapter XVII. Slabtown and Farniville
  Chapter XVIII. Minonk
  Chapter XIX.
Eureka
  Chapter XX. Miscellaneous