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HISTORY

OF

CARROLL COUNTY

IOWA

 

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and

Achievement

 

By PAUL MACLEAN

 

VOLUME I and VOLUME 2

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1912

 

(560 pages on 1 CD)

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Volume 1

Table of Contents

 

CHAPTER I. - THE INDIANS OF THE EARLY TIMES

CHAPTER II. - THE FIRST HISTORIAN OF CARROLL COUNTY

CHAPTER III. - CARROLL COUNTY ABSENCE OF UNARABLE LANDS

CHAPTER IV. - EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY

CHAPTER V. - THE GREAT DEBT - MALADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER VI. - THE CITIZENS RETRENCHMENT CONVENTION OF 187O

CHAPTER VII. - THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE SEVENTIES

CHAPTER VIII. – BLIZZARDS STOP RAILROADS

CHAPTER IX. - THE GREAT CARROLL FIRE OF SEPTEMBER 25, 1879

CHAPTER X. - THE INDICTMENT OF GEO. EFFERTS AND PETER NEW FOR STARTING THE CARROLL FIRE OF 1879

CHAPTER XI. - THE LYNCHING OF THE JELLERSON MURDERERS AT AUDUBON

CHAPTER XII. - THE BEGINNING OF GERMAN SETTLEMENT IN 1867 AT MT. CARMEL

CHAPTER XIII. - CARROLL COUNTY OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION

CHAPTER XIV. - EARLY EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES

CHAPTER XV. - RADICAL MODIFICATION OF CLIMATE COMES WITH SETTLEMENT

CHAPTER XVI. – LAD’S FIRST IMPRESSION OF CARROLL COUNTY

CHAPTER XVII. - ORLANDO H. MANNING POINTS OUT FEATURES IN WHICH CARROLL COUNTY IS

FAVORED BEYOND OTHERS

CHAPTER XVIII. - GOVERNORS OF IOWA FROM 1846 TO THE PRESENT

CHAPTER XIX. - THE FIRST NEWSPAPER

CHAPTER XX. - EDUCATIONAL

CHAPTER XXI. - RAILROADS

CHAPTER XXII. - AGRICULTURAL

CHAPTER XXIII. - CARROLL—THE TOWN LAID OUT

CHAPTER XXIV. - OTHER TOWNS OF CARROLL COUNTY

CHAPTER XXV. - THE WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

 

 

Volume 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 

Anderson, Annear, Armstrong, Arts, Baeumler, Bangs, Barr, Beach, Bedford, Beiter, Bell, Berger, Bingham, Black, Bohnenkamp, Bruggeman, Burgan, Carpenter, Cheasebro, Churchill, Coder, Colclo, Collison, Conner, Connor, Coykendall, Cretsingor, Culbertson, Culver, Daeges, Dankel, Davidson, Davis, Deppmann, Diamond, Dickson, Dohse, Downs, Drees, Dreeszen, Dunck, Dunkle, Earl,  Easterly, Eaton, Emmons, Everts, Flansburg, Ford, Freetly, Gilley, Gnam, Gocklev, Gotchall, Greteman, Gross, Grube, Gulick, Guy,  Hackfort, Hagaman, Hamilton, Handley, Haselton, Havens, Heider, Heinzlmeier, Helmer, Henry, Hill, Hillemeyer, Hoffman, Hoffmann, Hoogesfraat, Horton, Huendling, Humphrey, Hungerford, Jacobs, Johnston, Jones, Kasparbauer, Kellv, Kessler, Kline, Klockman, Knepper, Kortright, Krensky, Kruse, Kuemper, La Mont, Lampe, Laugenfeld, Liechti, Light, Long, Loudenback, Lovell, Ludwig, Lyons, Macke, Manning, Marean, Martens, Martin, Mess, Meyers, Moeller, Moorhouse, Morris, Moylan, Muller, Neu, Neumayer, Nockels, Olmstead, Ortner, Oswald, Parker, Parkhouse, Pascoe, Patty, Poeppe, Porter, Powers, Prill, Pruter, Puck, Raygor, Reever, Reese, Reinhart, Rettenmaier, Rich, Ricke, Rickerson, Russell, Rust, Saul, Schapmann, Schenkelberg, Schleisman, Schulte, Schwaller, Schweers, Sexton, Shepard, Sieve, Smith, Smouse, Snyder, Staak, Steele, Stevens, Stratemeyer, Tate, Thiele, Thompson, Toovey, Toyne, Tuel, Turner, Von Glan, Vonnahme, Waldron, Wegman, Wessling, Wheeler, Wilson, Wissler, Wohlenberg, Wolfe,