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

This is a scanned copy on CD of:

History

of

Clay County,

 Iowa

From its Earliest Settlement to 1909

BY

Samuel Gillespie and James E. Steele

ALSO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF MANY PROMINEINT CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY

AS WELL AS ITS ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD

Illustrated

CHICAGO

THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1909

680 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 * 

Table of Contents as Shown:

Introduction

The Indian and His Fate

First Land Title in Iowa

Early Settlement

Topography

Educational Institutions

State Institutions Celebration of Fiftieth Anniversary, by J. C. Parish

Clay County

Climate, Organization

Pioneers

Creation of Townships

Sioux

Gillett’s Grove

Peterson

Lone Tree

Douglas

Lake

Riverton

Summit

Freeman

Herdland

Lincoln

Garfield

Logan

Waterford

Clay

Reminiscences by J. A. Kirchner

Recollections of a Pioneer

Removal of the County Seat

First Railroad

Official Roster

Bench and Bar

Schools

Agricultural Societies

Peterson

Everly

Other Towns

Spencer

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Adams, Addington, Ady, Aebly, Alexander, Alvord,

Anderson, Atwood, Avery, Bailey, Barnhart, Batcheler, Beeks, Belknap, Bender, Benthall, Beving, Bicknell, Bittinger, Black, Boland, Bowman, Brandon, Breidinger, Bronson, Brown, Brusie, Buckey, Burger, Cauvel, Chatterton, Cheevers, Christensen, Christenson, Clapper, Coleman, Cook, Corcoran, Cornwall, Crone, Crow, Cruver, Culver, Delaney, Derry, Doty, Dunwell, Durant, Eckley, Eggers, Eiler, Elder, Elless, Erffmeyer, Ewoldt, Farmer, Fell, Ferguson, Fisk, Flint, Floete, Franklin, Frad, Freeburg, French, Gabrielson, Gadsby, Gallaher, Gillespie, Gleason, Gloyd, Goldsworthy, Goodell, Green, Greene, Griggs, Gruchow, Hardin, Hartman, Harvey, Heikens, Hendricksen, Hennings, Herrinton, Hilliard, Hielm, Hoffman, Hofstad, Hopkins, Howe, Hurd, Hurt, Huss, James, Jelden, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Judson, Kinyon, Kirchner, Kirkpatrick, Knight, Kraemer, Kruse, La Brant, Lafurge, Lahmon, Lammers, Landers, Lauck, Lawler, Lemaster, Lewis, Lieneman, Livingston, Logan, Long, Lorenzen, Lundt, McAllister, McConnell, McDowell, McHugh, McKee, McPherson, McQueen, McWhirter, Manning, Marker, Marr, Marsh, Mills, Moeller, Moore, Morrow, Newman, Ney, O'Brien, Odle, Olson, Paddock, Parker, Perine, Petersen, Pinneo, Pitcher, Powell, Randall, Raveling, Redfield, Rice, Riedinger, Riley, Ringering, Roberts, Robison, Rogers, Rood, Rose, Rusk, Ryno, Scharnberg, Schueneman, Scott, Sebastian, Seibel, Sherman, Shriver, Simington, Sitz, Skalitzky, Smith, Snyder, Soehren, Sokol, Squire, Staples, Stark, Steele, Struck, Swift, Thuirer, Tillinghast, Tischer, Torbert, Treeby, Turner, Waggoner, Wahlstrom, Wallace, Walstrom, Warren, Watson, Weaver, Webb, Weber, Welch, Wesche, Wetmore, Whalen, Wilcox, Williams, Wilson,  Wood, Woodcock, Wright, Zimmerman, Zishka,