History of Black Hawk County, Iowa and representative citizens
By: edited and compiled by Isaiah Van Metre.
Publisher: Brookhaven Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: LaCrosse, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 801
Subjects: Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- History.; Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Biography.; Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Genealogy.
Genres: Biography.; Genealogy.
Notes: Includes index.
Originally published: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co., 1904.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER I; value: GENERAL TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY 15; value: Civil Divisions-Streams and Watercourses-Natural Resources-Timber and Prairie-Agriculture-The Bluffs Along the Cedar; value: CHAPTER II; value: SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY. 20'; value: Land Opened to Settlement-The Pioneers who Preceded the Actual Settlement of the County-The First Settlers-An Incident cf the Frontier Period-The First School-Indians-The Census of 1850-First Births, Weddings and Deaths-New Business Establishments-The First Post Offices; value: CHAPTER III; value: ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY. 32; value: The First Election-Citizens Assessed in 1851-Mail Routes and State Roads-The First Entries of Land -Voting Precincts-Location of the County Seat-County Organization-Fourth of July Celebration; value: CHAPTER IV; value: BLACK HAWK COUNTY ASSUMES CONTROL OF HER OWN AFFAIRS 41; value: Taxes-The First Marriage License-The First Dams Across the Cedar-The First Term of the District Court-An Incident of the County Seat Contest-Mail Routes and State Roads-The Second Term of the District Court-The Court House Ordered to be Built-Election in Behalf of the Dubuque & Pacific; value: Railroad-Incidents of the Year of High Water-Steamboat Navigation: The Advent of the "Black Hawk"-Last Meeting of Indian Tribes in this Section; value: CHAPTER V; value: RIVALRY BETWEEN CEDAR FALLS AND WATERLOO 50; value: The County Seat Fight-A Second Contest for Advantage Between Cedar Falls and Waterloo; value: CHAPTER VI; value: THE RAILROADS 55; value: Strenuous Efforts to Get Them-Many Failures, but Final Success-A Diversion; value: CHAPTER VII; value: GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTY, INSTITUTIONS AND EVENTS 68; value: The First Board of TownshipSupervisors-Legislation for County Jail, County Poor, Gopher Bounties; value: and Sheriff's House-The Circuit Court-The County Auditor -The First Board of County Supervisors; value: -Casualties-County Officers-Members of the Legislature-Election Returns-Abstract of County Valu-; value: ations for 1903-Bridges-Court Records-Criminal Cases-Population Statistics-The Black Hawk; value: County Agricultural Society-The Grange-The Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company-Crop Acre-; value: age of County by Townships for 1903-The County in Early Days and at Present; value: CHAPTER VIII; value: THE TOWNSHIPS 107; value: CHAPTER IX; value: CRUSHING THE REBELLION 136; value: CHAPTER X; value: CEDAR FALLS 165; value: The Ideal Residence City-Business Advantages-Government-The Fire Department-Water Works-; value: Railroads-Water Power-Factories-Banks-The First School House in the County-Public Schools-; value: Carnegie-Dayton Library-General Notes -Societies; value: CHAPTER XI; value: WATERLOO 177; value: Entries of Land in Original Plat-Early Arrivals-Some First Events-The First Improvements and; value: Growth of the Town-General Notes and Important Events-Political Record-The Government Building; value: -The Synodical Presbyterian Hospital-The Waterloo Library Association-The Carnegie Libraries-; value: The Field Seminary-The Waterloo Chautauqua Association-The Waterloo Commercial College-Public; value: Schools-The Board of Trade-The Chamber of Commerce-Banks-Building and Loan Associations-; value: The Manufacturing Interests-The Wholesale Jobbing Interests-Societies; value: CHAPTER XII; value: LA PORTE CITY AND SMALL TOWNS OF THE COUNTY OF THE PRESENT AND PAST 231; value: La Porte City-Hudson-Gilbertsville-Dunkerton-Raymond-Dewar-Winslow-Washburn-Benson; value: -Glasgow-Voorhies-'Janesville-Cedar Valley-Ottawa-Brooklyn-Cedar City-Warren-Finchford-; value: Florence City-Greenville-Barclay; value: CHAPTER XIII; value: THE CHURCHES 242; value: The Religious Phase of Life Among the Pioneers of Iowa-The Churches of Black Hawk County; value: CHAPTER XIV; value: EDUCATIONAL 2. 288; value: Information Gathered from the Records-Educational Statistics-The Catholic Schools of Black Hawk; value: County-The Iowa State Normal School; value: CHAPTER XV; value: THE PRESS 303; value: Newspapers of Cedar Falls, Waterloo, La Porte City and Hudson; value: BIOGRAPHICAL 311.