The History of Jackson County, Iowa
Subtitle: Containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., biographical sketches of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion ... history of the Northwest, history of Iowa ... miscellaneous matters, &c ...
Contributors: Western Historical Co.,
Publisher: Western Historical Company
Published: 1879
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 783
Subjects: Jackson County (Iowa) -- History.
Table of contents: label: HISTORY NORTHWEST AND STATE OF IOWA; title: 19
label: History Northwest Territory; title: 19
label: Geographical Position; title: 20
label: Early Explorations; title: 32
label: Discovery of the Ohio; title: 34
label: English Explorations and Settlements; title: 59
label: American Settlements; title: 65
label: Division of the Northwest Territory; title: 69
label: Tecumseh and the War of 1812; title: 73
label: Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War; title: 79
label: Other Indian Troubles; title: 79
label: Present Condition of the Northwest; title: 88
label: Illinois; title: 257
label: Illinois; title: 259
label: Indiana; title: 260
label: Iowa; title: 263
label: Michigan; title: 264
label: Wisconsin; title: 266
label: Minnesota; title: 267
label: Nebraska; title: 109
label: History of Iowa; title: 109
label: Geographical Situation; title: 109
label: Topography; title: 110
label: Drainage System; title: 111
label: Rivers; title: 118
label: Lakes; title: 119
label: Springs; title: 120
label: Prairies; title: 120
label: Geology; title: 137
label: Climatology; title: 139
label: Discovery and Occupation; title: 147
label: Territory; title: 147
label: Indians; title: 151
label: Pike's Expedition; title: 152
label: Indian Wars; title: 157
label: Black Hawk War; title: 159
label: Indian Purchase, Reserves and Treaties; title: 163
label: Spanish Grants; title: 164
label: Half-Breed Tract; title: 166
label: Early Settlements; title: 173
label: Territorial History; title: 177
label: Roundary Question; title: 181
label: State Organization; title: 185
label: Growth and Progress; title: 186
label: Agricultural College and Farm; title: 187
label: State University; title: 193
label: State Historical Society; title: 194
label: Penitentiaries; title: 195
label: Insane Hospitals; title: 197
label: College for the Blind; title: 199
label: Deaf and Dumb Institutions; title: 199
label: Soldiers' Orphans' Homes; title: 201
label: State Normal School; title: 201
label: Asylum for Feeble Minded Children; title: 202
label: Reform School; title: 203
label: Fish Hatching Establishment; title: 204
label: Public Lands; title: 218
label: Public Schools; title: 223
label: Political Record; title: 229
label: War Record; title: 233
label: -- Infantry; title: 244
label: -- Cavalry; title: 247
label: -- Artillery; title: 248
label: -- Miscellaneous; title: 249
label: -- Promotions for Iowa Regiments; title: 250
label: -- Number Casualties -- Officers; title: 252
label: -- Number Casualties -- Enlisted Men; title: 254
label: -- Number Volunteers; title: 255
label: Population; title: 320
label: Agricultural Statistics; label: ABSTRACT OF IOWA STATE LAWS; title: 303
label: Adoption of Children; title: 293
label: Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes; title: 305
label: Commercial Terms; title: 298
label: Capital Punishment; title: 316
label: Charitable, Scientific and Religious Associations; title: 293
label: Descent; title: 300
label: Damages from Trespass; title: 298
label: Exemptions from Execution; title: 299
label: Estrays; label: Forms:; title: 307
label: Articles of Agreement; title: 308
label: Bills of Sale; title: 315
label: Bond of Deed; title: 306
label: Bills of Purchase; title: 314
label: Chattel Mortgage; title: 306
label: Confession of Judgment; title: 312
label: Lease; title: 310
label: Mortgages; title: 309
label: Notice to Quit; title: 306,313
label: Notes; title: 306
label: Orders; title: 315
label: Quit Claim Deed; title: 306
label: Receipts; title: 309
label: Wills and Codicils; title: 314
label: Warranty Deed; title: 300
label: Fences; title: 293
label: Interest; title: 317
label: Intoxicating Liquors; title: 297
label: Jurisdiction of Courts; title: 297
label: Jurors; title: 297
label: Limitation of Actions; title: 304
label: Landlord and Tenant; title: 298
label: Married Women; title: 300
label: Marks and Brands; title: 301
label: Mechanics' Liens; title: 302
label: Roads and Bridges; title: 303
label: Surveyors and Surveys; title: 319
label: Suggestions to Persons Purchasing Books by Subscription; title: 303
label: Support of Poor; title: 295
label: Taxes; title: 293
label: Wills and Estates; title: 305
label: Weights and Measures; title: 300
label: Wolf Scalps; label: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: 22
label: Source of the Mississippi; title: 24
label: La Salle Landing on the Shore of Green Bay; title: 26
label: Buffalo Hunt; title: 28
label: Trapping; title: 31
label: Mouth of the Mississippi; title: 33
label: High Bridge; title: 42
label: Pontiac, the Ottawa Chieftain; title: 55
label: Indians Attacking Frontiersmen; title: 58
label: Present Site Lake Street, Chicago, 1833; title: 60
label: A Pioneer Dwelling; title: 62
label: Lake Bluff; title: 68
label: Tecumseh, the Shawanoe Chieftain; title: 71
label: Indians Attacking a Stockade; title: 74
label: Black Hawk, the Sac Chieftain; title: 79
label: Old Fort Dearborn, 1830; title: 80
label: Lincoln Monument; title: 81
label: A Pioneer School House; title: 82
label: Chicago in 1833; title: 85
label: Hunting Prairie Wolves; title: 87
label: Kinzie House; title: 89
label: Starved Rock; title: 108
label: An Early Settlement; label: MISCELLANEOUS; title: Front
label: Map of Jackson County; title: 269
label: Constitution of United States; title: 283
label: Vote for President, Governor and Congressmen; title: 284
label: Practical Rules for Every-Day Use; title: 287
label: United States Government Land Measure; title: 288
label: Surveyor's Measure; title: 288
label: How to Keep Accounts; title: 289
label: Interest Table; title: 289
label: Miscellaneous Table; title: 290
label: Names of the States of the Union and their Significations; title: 291
label: Population of the United States; title: 291
label: Population of Fifty Principal Cities of the United States; title: 292
label: Population and Area of the United States; title: 292
label: Population of the Principal Countries in the World; label: HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY; title: 323
label: Anti-Pioneer Times; title: 327
label: County Organization; title: 329
label: Township Organization; title: 330
label: County Commissioners' Business; title: 331
label: Probate Court; title: 332
label: First Settler; title: 332
label: First Sermon; title: 333
label: First Deed; title: 333
label: Club Law and Claims; title: 335
label: The County Seat; title: 338
label: County Supervisors; title: 341
label: Embezzlements; title: 342
label: Bridges; title: 343
label: County Poor Farm; title: 344
label: County Jail; title: 345
label: County Finances; title: 347
label: Statistics; title: 349
label: Geological; title: 350
label: Burt's Cave; title: 352
label: Hunter's Caves; title: 353
label: Descriptive Geography; title: 354
label: Streams; title: 355
label: Natural Products; title: 355
label: Timber; title: 356
label: Surface; title: 356
label: Arrival of Outlaws in Bellevue; title: 362
label: A Real-Estate Transaction; title: 363
label: The Groff-Davis Tragedy; title: 366
label: A Checkered Life; title: 368
label: A Romance; title: 371
label: Citizens' Association; title: 372
label: The Bandit's Den; title: 374
label: A Deputy's Bravery and What Came of It; title: 377
label: James Thompson; title: 280
label: A Temporary Reform; title: 381
label: Smuggled Spoils; title: 382
label: Killing of James Thompson; title: 387
label: The Gunpowder Plot; title: 390
label: The Thieves' Last Haul; title: 392
label: A General Arrest Proposed; title: 396
label: The Bellevue War; title: 398
label: The Assault on Brown's Hotel; title: 398
label: The Thieves Tried and Sentenced; title: 403
label: Jackson-Perkins Murder and Execution; title: 405
label: Fate of Alexander Grifford; title: 405
label: Vigilance Committee; title: 406
label: Barger Murder and Lynching; title: 407
label: The Cronk Murder Trial; title: 413
label: Lead Exploration in 1834; title: 417
label: The Winter of 1842-43 -- Incidents; title: 418
label: A Bridegroom's Disappointment; title: 419
label: The Iowa Band; title: 419
label: Vosburg's Hunting Yarn; title: 418
label: A Defeated Congressman; title: 421
label: Pioneer Honor; title: 422
label: A Disgusted Barber; title: 423
label: The First Woman's Crusade; title: 423
label: Incidents; title: 426
label: Court Incidents; title: 428
label: Court Resolutions; title: 428
label: Truth Stranger than Fiction; title: 431
label: A Distressing Accident; title: 431
label: Monmouth's Centennial; title: 434
label: Fairfield's Centennial; title: 434
label: Railroads; title: 440
label: Agricultural Society; title: 442
label: Horticultural; title: 443
label: Political; title: 444
label: Vote 1876-1878; title: 444
label: Educational; title: 449
label: County Officers; title: 449
label: Township Officers; title: 452
label: Legislative Representation; title: 453
label: War History; title: 463
label: Roster Volunteers; title: 487
label: Maquoketa; title: 521
label: Andrew; title: 531
label: Bellevue; title: 562
label: Sabula; title: 587
label: Miles; title: 595
label: Preston; title: 601
label: Baldwin; title: 603
label: Monmouth; title: 606
label: Spragueville; title: 607
label: Van Buren; title: 607
label: Fulton; title: 607
label: Spring Brook; title: 607
label: St. Donatus; title: 608
label: Mill Rock; title: 608
label: Canton; title: 608
label: Ozark; title: 608
label: Nashville; title: 611
label: La Motte; title: 611
label: Zwingle; title: 611
label: Cottonville; title: 611
label: Sterling; title: 611
label: Iron Hill; title: 611
label: Otter Creek; title: 612
label: Correspondence on the Bellevue War; title: 620
label: Vote 1879; label: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; title: 657
label: Bellevue; title: 757
label: Brandon; title: 764
label: Butler; title: 773
label: Fairfield; title: 743
label: Farmer's Creek; title: 702
label: Iowa; title: 765
label: Jackson; title: 621
label: Maquoketa; title: 651
label: Monmouth; title: 750
label: Otter Creek; title: 724
label: Perry; title: 685
label: Prairie Springs; title: 688
label: Richland; title: 641
label: South Fork; title: 678
label: Tete des Morts; title: 693
label: Union; title: 716
label: Van Burten; title: 709
label: Washington; title: 782,783
label: Too Late for Insertion; label: LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS; title: 627
label: Mrs. N. R. Allen; title: 411
label: N. Butterworth; title: 717
label: A. L. Bartholomew; title: 447
label: Mrs. Juliett Carman; title: 663
label: Thomas W. Cassin; title: 753
label: James Dunne; title: 339
label: Z. De Groat; title: 645
label: Charles M. Dunbar; title: 519
label: J. M. Fitzgerald; title: 483
label: James D. Gage; title: 501
label: Mrs. J. E. Goodenow; title: 321
label: J. E. Goodenow; title: 537
label: M. G. Hyler; title: 699
label: J. J. Hofstetter; title: 429
label: J. Hilsinger; title: 393
label: N. Kilborn; title: 609
label: George W. Kelsall; title: 771
label: George W. Keister; title: 555
label: L. Millar; title: 591
label: J. W. Miles; title: 681
label: Theo. Niemann; title: 375
label: E. G. Potter; title: 465
label: Asher Riley; title: 587
label: J. G. Sugg; title: 605
label: Henry Specht; title: 735
label: B. R. Thomas; title: 573
label: E. A. Wood; title: 357
label: W. A. Warren