| |
Page |
| History Northwest
Territory |
19 |
| - Geographical
Position |
19 |
| - Early
Explorations |
20 |
| - Discovery of
Ohio |
33 |
| - English
Explorations and Settlements |
35 |
| - American
Settlements |
60 |
| - Division of the
Northwest territory |
66 |
| - Tecumseh and
the War of 1812 |
70 |
| - Black Hawk and
hte Black Hawk War |
74 |
| - Other Indian
Troubles |
79 |
| - Present
Condition of the Northwest |
86 |
| - Chicago |
95 |
| - Illinois |
240 |
| - Indiana |
242 |
| - Iowa |
243 |
| - Michigan |
244 |
| - Wisconsin |
245 |
| - Minnesota |
247 |
| History of Iowa: |
|
| - Geographical
Situation |
109 |
| - Topography |
109 |
| - Drainage System |
110 |
| - Rivers |
111 |
| - Lakes |
118 |
| - Springs |
119 |
| - Prairies |
120 |
| - Geology |
121 |
| - Climatology |
137 |
| - Discovery and
Occupation |
139 |
| - Territory |
137 |
| - Indians |
147 |
| - Pike's
Expedition |
151 |
| - Indian Wars |
152 |
| - Black Hawk War |
157 |
| - Indian
Purchase, Reserves and Treaties |
159 |
| - Spanish Grants |
163 |
| - Half-Breed
Tract |
164 |
| - Early
Settlements |
166 |
| - Territorial
History |
173 |
| - Boundary
Question |
177 |
| - State
Organization |
181 |
| - Growth and
Progress |
185 |
| - Agricultural
College and Farm |
186 |
| - State
University |
187 |
| - State
Historical Society |
193 |
| - Penitentiaries |
194 |
| - Insane
Hospitals |
195 |
| - College for the
Blind |
197 |
| - Deaf and Dumb
Institution |
199 |
| - Soldiers'
Orphans' Homes |
199 |
| - State Normal
School |
201 |
| - Asylum for
Feeble Minded Children |
201 |
| - Reform School |
202 |
| - Fish Hatching
Establishment |
203 |
| - Public Lands |
204 |
| - Public Schools |
218 |
| |
|
|
| |
Page |
| History of Iowa: |
|
| - Political
Record |
223 |
| - War Record |
229 |
| - Number
Volunteers |
233 |
| - Number
Casualties - Offices |
234 |
| - Number
Casualties - Enlisted Men |
236 |
| - Population |
238 |
| - Agricultural
Statistics |
274 |
| History of Jasper
County |
307 |
| - On Foot Into
the Wilderness |
307 |
| - First White
Woman and others |
308 |
| - Keeping Tavern |
309 |
| - Adam M. Tool |
309 |
| - William
Highland |
310 |
| - Dragoon Trail |
310 |
| - Two Hard Cases |
311 |
| - Increase of
Population |
312 |
| - Indian
Occupancy |
312 |
| - Treaties |
313 |
| - Whisky as a
Time-saver |
314 |
| - First Election |
314 |
| - Horse Stealing |
314 |
| - Indian Traders |
315 |
| - Specie Payments |
316 |
| - A Small Gain |
316 |
| - First Wedding |
317 |
| - Precinct
Established |
317 |
| - The County
Filling Up |
318 |
| - Two Deaths |
318 |
| - Going to Mill |
318 |
| - First Post
Office |
319 |
| - Civil Divisions |
319 |
| - Principal
Streams |
320 |
| - Groves |
321 |
| - Geology |
321 |
| - Surveys |
322 |
| - First Entries |
322 |
| - County Created
and Organized |
323 |
| - Boundaries
Established |
323 |
| - Organizing
Election |
325 |
| - First Term of
Court |
325 |
| - Location of
County Seat |
326 |
| - Doings of
Commissioners |
327 |
| - Sale of Lots |
329 |
| - First Probate
Cases |
330 |
| - Commissioners'
Record |
330 |
| - Roads and Mail
Routes |
331 |
| - Probate Matters |
333 |
| - District Court |
335 |
| - Pioneer
Marriages |
337 |
| - Tax List, 1849 |
337 |
| - Assessments of
1847 |
337 |
| - Incidents of
Pioneer Life |
341 |
| - Lost and Found |
341 |
| - Religious
Services |
342 |
| - Winter Storm |
342 |
| - State Capitol |
343 |
| - First Mills |
345 |
| - Indians and
Whites |
346 |
| - Game |
347 |
| - Love and Murder |
348 |
| - Claim Troubles |
350 |
| |
|
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| |
Page |
| History of Jasper
County: |
|
| - Our Nation's
Anniversary |
350 |
| - Mob in Search
of Indians |
351 |
| - First School
Houses |
353 |
| - Blakely
Shoemaker |
354 |
| - Long and Dreary
Winter |
354 |
| - Uneventful Year |
355 |
| - County Judge |
359 |
| - Contempt of
Court |
363 |
| - For the Land of
Gold |
364 |
| - Indian Scare |
364 |
| - Pioneer
Jurisprudence |
366 |
| - First Railroad
Project |
367 |
| - Unsuccessful
Conspiracy |
368 |
| - Liquor Case |
371 |
| - Mormons |
373 |
| - Flush Times |
377 |
| - New Civil
Divisions |
377 |
| - Hard Times |
380 |
| - New Court House |
381 |
| - Revolting Crime |
383 |
| - Beloved by
None, Abhorred by All |
383 |
| - A Mirage |
384 |
| - A Retrospective
View |
384 |
| - Minor Chords |
385 |
| - Punishing Theft |
387 |
| - Draining Swamp
Lands |
388 |
| - Hickory Grove
Established |
388 |
| - County Safe
Robbery |
388 |
| - Eclipsed of
1869 |
403 |
| - Events of 1874 |
405 |
| - War History |
408 |
| - Railroads |
433 |
| - Coal Industry |
435 |
| - Poor Farm |
438 |
| - Medical Society |
440 |
| - Agricultural
Societies |
440 |
| - Patrons of
Husbandry |
442 |
| - Educational |
443 |
| - Newspapers |
450 |
| - List of County
Officers |
452 |
| - Addenda |
454 |
| - Abstract of
Personal Property |
507 |
| - Tabular
Statement |
508 |
| - Vote of 1876 |
304 |
| Town Histories: |
|
| - Newton |
454 |
| - Monroe |
474 |
| - Kellogg |
482 |
| - Lynnville |
488 |
| - Vandalia |
494 |
| - Colfax |
497 |
| - Prairie City |
500 |
| - Green Castle |
503 |
| - Clyde |
504 |
| - Reasnor |
504 |
| - Galesburg |
504 |
| - Baxter |
505 |
| - Wilson |
505 |
| - Fairmount |
506 |
| - Metz |
506 |
|
|
ILLUSTRATIONS.
|
| |
Page |
| Mouth of the
Mississippi |
21 |
| Source of the
Mississippi |
21 |
| Wild Prairie |
23 |
La Salle Landing on the
Shore of
Green Bay |
25 |
| Buffalo Hunt |
27 |
| Trapping |
29 |
| Hunting |
32 |
| Iroquois Chief |
34 |
| Pontiac, the Ottawa
Chieftain |
43 |
| Indians Attacking
Frontiersmen |
56 |
|
| |
Page |
| A Prairie Storm |
59 |
| A Pioneer Dwelling |
61 |
| Breaking Prairie |
63 |
| Tecumseh, the Shawanee
Chieftain |
69 |
| Indians Attacking a
Stockade |
72 |
| Black Hawk, the Sac
Chieftain |
75 |
| Big Eagle |
80 |
| Captain Jack, the Modoc
Chieftain |
83 |
| Kinzie House |
85 |
| A Representatiave
Pioneer |
86 |
| Lincoln Monument |
87 |
|
| |
Page |
| A Pioneer School House |
88 |
| Pioneers' First Winter |
94 |
| Great Iron Bridge of
c., R. I. & P. R. R., Crossing the Mississippi at
Davenport, Iowa |
91 |
| Chicago in 1833 |
95 |
| Old Fort Dearborn, 1839 |
98 |
| Present Site Lake
Street Bridge, Chicago, 1833 |
98 |
| Ruins of Chicago |
104 |
| View of the City of
Chicago |
106 |
| Hunting Prairie Wolves |
249 |
|
|
LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.
|
| |
Page |
| Cook, J. C. |
457 |
| Miller, L. L. |
339 |
|
| |
Page |
| Smouse, D. W. |
423 |
| Wilson, J. W. |
389 |
|
|
|
JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS.
|
| |
Page |
| Infantry: |
415 |
| - Third |
415 |
| - Fifth |
415 |
| - Tenth |
417 |
| - Thirteenth |
418 |
| - Fourteenth |
419 |
| - Twenty-second |
420 |
|
| |
Page |
| Infantry: |
|
| - Twenty-third |
421 |
| - Twenty-eighth |
422 |
| - Thirty-seventh |
425 |
| - Fortieth |
426 |
| - Forty-eighth |
428 |
|
| |
Page |
| Cavalry: |
|
| - Fourth |
428 |
| - Seventh |
428 |
| - Ninth |
429 |
| |
|
| Miscellaneous |
429 |
|
|
BIOGRAPHICAL TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY
|
|
|
|
|
|
ABSTRACT OF IOWA STATE LAWS
|
| |
Page |
| Adoption of Children |
287 |
| Bills of Exchange and
Promissory Notes |
275 |
| Commercial Terms |
289 |
| Capital Punishment |
282 |
| Charitable, Scientific
and Religious Associations |
300 |
| Descent |
275 |
| Damages from Trespass |
284 |
| Exemptions from
Execution |
282 |
| Estrays |
283 |
| Forms: |
|
| - Articles of
Agreement |
291 |
| - Bills of Sale |
292 |
| - Bond for Deed |
299 |
| - Bills of
Purchase |
|
|
| |
Page |
| Forms: |
|
| - Chattel
Mortgage |
298 |
| - Confession of
Judgment |
290 |
| - Lease |
296 |
| - Mortgages |
294 |
| - Notice to Quite |
293 |
| - Notes |
290, 297 |
| - Orders |
290 |
| - Quit Claim Deed |
299 |
| - Receipts |
290 |
| - Wills and
Codicils |
293 |
| - Warranty Deed |
298 |
| Fences |
284 |
| Interest |
275 |
| Intoxicating Liquors |
301 |
|
| |
Page |
| Jurisdiction of Courts |
281 |
| Jurors |
281 |
| Limitation of Actions |
282 |
| Landlord and Tenant |
283 |
| Married Women |
282 |
| Marks and Brands |
284 |
| Mechanics' Liens |
285 |
| Roads and Bridges |
286 |
| Surveyors and Surveys |
287 |
| Suggestions to Persons
Purchasing Books by Subscription |
303 |
| Support of Poor |
287 |
| Taxes |
277 |
| Wills and Estates |
276 |
| Weights and Measures |
289 |
| Wolf Scalps |
284 |
|
|
MISCELLANEOUS
|
| |
Page |
| Map of Jasper County |
Front |
| Constitution of United
States |
250 |
| Vote for President and
Vice-President |
264 |
| Practical Rules for
Every-Day Use |
265 |
| United States
Government Land Measure |
268 |
|
| |
Page |
| Surveyor's Measure |
269 |
| How to Keep Accounts |
269 |
| Interest Table |
270 |
| Miscellaneous Table |
270 |
| Names of the States of
the Union and their Significations |
271 |
|
| |
Page |
| Population of the
United States |
272 |
| Population of Fifty
Principal Cities of the United States |
272 |
| Population and Area of
the United States |
273 |
| Population of the
Principal Countries in the World |
273 |
| Population of Jasper
County |
675 |
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