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

This is a scanned copy on CD of:

History

of

Story County

Iowa

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement.

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME I

CHICAGO

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1911

(Over 470 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 * 

Volume 1

Contents

  Chapter I Foreword
  Chapter II A General View
  Chapter III General View-(continued)
  Chapter IV The Early Settlement
  Chapter V The New County
  Chapter VI Reminiscences by Col. Scott
  Chapter VII Reminiscences by Col. Scott-(continued)
  Chapter VIII Reminiscences by Col. Scott-(continued)
  Chapter IX Reminiscences by Col. Scott-(concluded)
  Chapter X County Affairs before the War
  Chapter XI County Affairs before the War-(continued)
  Chapter XII County Affairs before the War-(concluded)
  Chapter XIII Pioneer Reminiscences
  Chapter XIV Mrs. Hannah Kellogg-1855 and later
  Chapter XV Pioneer Interviews by Mrs. A. M. Payne
  Chapter XVI Early Days in Howard
  Chapter XVII Tales of Early Days
  Chapter XVIII Story County in the War
  Chapter XIX Story County in Various Regiments
  Chapter XX Third Iowa Infantry
  Chapter XXI Second Iowa Cavalry
  Chapter XXII Twenty-third Iowa Infantry
  Chapter XXIII Thirty-second Iowa Infantry
  Chapter XXIV Home Affairs in War Time
  Chapter XXV Home Affairs in War Time-(continued)
  Chapter XXVI The Close of the War
  Chapter XXVII The Imprisonment of Robert Campbell
  Chapter XXVIII The Escape of Robert Campbell
  Chapter XXIX Robert Campbell Reaches Friends
  Chapter XXX The Decade After the War
  Chapter XXXI General Conditions Following the War
  Chapter XXXII Ames and the Narrow Gauge
  Chapter XXXIII Founding the College
  Chapter XXXIV Fixing Nevada's Business Center
  Chapter XXXV Politics Following the War
  Chapter XXXVI Politics Following the War-(continued)
  Chapter XXXVII Various Matters After the War
  Chapter XXXVIII Editorial Reminiscences
  Chapter XXXIX In the Latter Seventies
  Chapter XL Affairs in the Eighties
  Chapter XLI Politics in the Eighties
  Chapter XLII Affairs in the Nineties
  Chapter XLIII Politics in the Nineties
  Chapter XLIV The Last Decade
  Chapter XLV Railroads and Ditches
  Chapter XLVI Politics of Last Decade
  Chapter XLVII Conclusion

Volume 2

 Biographical Index:

Allen, Anderson, Angelo, Applegate, Atkinson, Baldwin, Barker, Batman, Benjamin Brothers, Bennett, Biddle, Blackman, Boardman, Bowers, Boyd, Boydston, Brown, Budd, Bunce, Burney, Burroughs, Campbell, Canady, Carmody, Chambers, Childs, Chrisman, Christian, Christian, Cleverley, Cook, Coon, Cooper, Coughenour, Craig, Cramblit, Davis, Dickey, Dillin, Dodds, Downing, Dueland, Dunahoo, Dutton, Eckels, Eddy, Edenburn, Emery, Erickson, Fawcett, Ferguson, Fetterhoff, Fitchpatrick, Fowler, Frazer, Freed, Frowick, Furnas, Gamble, Gates, Glann, Griffith, Groseclose, Grove, Gunder, Gander, Hale, Hall, Handsaker, Hansen, Hanson, Hardenbrook, Hardin, Harrington, Harris, Hartung, Heath, Hegger, Helvig, Hemping, Hemstock, Henderson, Hill, Hix, Holt, Huffman, Hull, Hurst, Hyden, John, Johnson, Kalsem, Kelley, Kennedy, King, Kirk, Kitchel, KIovc, Knapp, Knepper, Lande, Lanning, Larson, Lewis, Lincoln, Lingenfelter, Lockridge, Longnecker, Longhran, Lowrey, Latz, McCall, McCarthy, McConnell, McCord, McCoy, McHose, McKee, McMichael, McQuiston, Maland, Malmin, Markland, Marsh, Maxwell, Mead, Menzel, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Molde, Moore, Morris, Nelson, Newman, Nielsen, O'Brien, Olinger, Oliver, Olsan, Olson, Osborn, Pammel, Payne, Pease, Peddicord, Penfield, Pope, Porter, Posegate, Quam, Rawson, Ray, Reagan, Renier, Riddlesbarger, Ringgenberg, Robison, Rosenfeld, Ross, Ruth, Sawtell, Schmellik, Scott, Seske, Severson, Shaw, Shearer, Sheldon, Shenkle, Shugart, Silliman, Sime, Simmons, Sims, Simser, Smith, Solem, Soper, Southwick, Spieker, Stanton, Statler, Stevens, Stuart, Sutter, Swinbank, Taylor, Templeton, Tesdall, Thompson, Thrift, Tichenor, Twedt, Vasey, Veneman, Viland, Wald, Waula, Welty, Wentworth, White, Whitney, Wick, Williams, Wood, Woodruff. Yeager, Young.