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

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1906.

 

Past and Present

of

Mahaska County,

Iowa

 

 

By: Manoah Hedge

 

TOGETHER WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF MANY OF ITS PROMINENT AND LEADING CITIZENS AND ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

 

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

1906

 

(575 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. - The first Iowa explorers and what they found
Chapter II. -  First white settlers in Iowa
Chapter III. -  Important land deals with the Indians
Chapter IV. -  Some early Mahaska settlers
Chapter V. -  Pioneer manner of life
Chapter VI. -  Claim associations
Chapter VII. - Chief Mahaska, most noted chief of the Iowas
Chapter VIII. - Organization of Mahaska County
Chapter IX. - Personal Recollections and early reminiscences
Chapter X. - Early Oskaloosa
Chapter XI. - Facts and incidents about Mahaska pioneers
Chapter XII. - Kish-Ke-Kosh, the Mahaska County chief, and his people
Chapter XIII. - Holland in Mahaska County
Chapter XIV. - The flood year - 1851
Chapter XV. - Mahaska County Mills
Chapter XVI. -  Recollections of pioneer days
Chapter XVII.-  First schools and their teachers
Chapter XVIII. -  Pioneer doctors
Chapter XIX. -  History of Adams, black oak and Cedar townships
Chapter XX. - History of East Des Moines Township
Chapter XXI.- History of Garfield and Harrison townships
Chapter XXII. -  History of Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison and Monroe townships
Chapter XXIII. -  History of Pleasant Grove, Prairie and Richland townships
Chapter XXIV. -  History of Scott, Spring Creek, Union, West Des Moines and White Oak townships
Chapter XXV. -  Early Ox Roasts
Chapter XXVI. - The war period
Chapter XXVII. - The war period
Chapter XVIII. - First things in Mahaska County
Chapter XXIX. - Oskaloosa's cemeteries
Chapter XXX. - Railroads of Mahaska County
Chapter XXXI. - Origin, growth and history of our colleges
Chapter XXXII. - The county press
Chapter XXXIII. - Oskaloosa fifty years ago and Oskaloosa today
Chapter XXXIV. - Two useful organizations. Mahaska County Farmers' Institute
Chapter XXXV. - Some Interesting facts gathered from the old county records 
 

BIOGRAPHICAL

Abbott, Akerman, Albertson, Allen, Anderson, Appel, Arnold, Augustine, Bacon, Baer, Barbour, Barnhouse, Barrowman, Bartlett, Bass, Baxter, Beach, Beal, Beck, Bertsch, Biggs, Blanchard, Blattner, Bolton, Briggs, Brown, Browneller, Bullers, Burdick, Burnside, Burton, Busby, Byers, Caldwell, Carlon, Carver, Chew,  Childress, Comstock, Conaway, Cook, Cooper, Corlett, Corns, Crookham, Crozier, Cunningham, Davis, Deck, Devitt, Dickson, Dodds, Dye, Eastburn, Eby, Edris, Ellis, Else, Engle, Evans, Faulkner, Ferguson, Ferrall, Fisher, Fleming, Garner, Gibbs, Gilchrist, Glasscock, Gleason, Gorsuch, Grace, Guthrie, Hambleton, Hamilton, Hanna, Harbour, Harper, Harter, Hatcher, Hayes, Hedge, Hess, Hiatt, Hillis, Hoffman, Hoffmann, Homer, Hook, Hoover, Hull, Irwin, James, Jamison, Jarvis, Jewell, Johnson, Jones, Kalbach, Keating, Kissick, Kisor, Lofland, Loring, McCurdy, McDowell, McManus, McMillen, McNeill, Martin, Masteller, Mickle, Miller, Minard, Mobley, Moore, Morrish, Nash, Nelson, Newell, Noel, Norris, Norton, Nugent, Oldham, Oppenheimer, Owens, Parker, Patterson, Perry, Phillippe, Phillips, Porter, Preston, Prichett, Prine, Pugh, Ramsay, Randell, Reynolds, Rice, Ridpath, Riegel, Riggs, Rinehart, Roberts, Rogers, Rosebrook, Rosecrans, Rosenberger, Ryan, Sanders, Sarbaugh, Schee, Scoles, Seevers, Sellers, Shafer, Shannon, Shaw, Sherman, Siebel, Sinclair, Smith, Somerville, Sopher, Stuart, Thomas, Timbrel, Todd, Towns, Triplett, Troy, Unsicker, Vail, Votaw, Walling, Warner, Watland, Wehrle, Welch, West, White, Whitehill, Wilkinson, Williams, Willhoit, Wilson, Wimer, Winder, Wright, Yeoman