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HISTORY OF MISSOURI. |
| CHAPTER I. - LOUISIANA PURCHASE |
9 - 12 |
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- Brief Historical Sketch |
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| CHAPTER II. - DESCRIPTIVE AND
GEOGRAPHICAL |
13 - 18 |
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- Name
- Extent
- Surface
- Rivers
- Timber
- Climate
- Prairies
- Soil
-
Population by Counties |
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| CHAPTER III. - GEOLOGY OF
MISSOURI |
18 - 23 |
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- Classification of Rocks
- Quanternary Formations
- Tertiary
- Cretaceous
-
Carboniferous
- Devonian
- Silurian
- Azoic
- Economic Geology
- Coal
- Iron
- Lead
- Cooper
-
Zinc
- Building Stone
- Marble
- Gypsum
- Lime
-
Clay
- Paints
- Springs
- Water Power |
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| CHAPTER IV. - TITLE AND EARLY
SETTLEMENTS |
23 - 28 |
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- Title to Missouri Lands
- Rights of Discovery
- Title of France and Spain
- Cession to the United States
- Territorial Changes
- Treaties with Indians
- First Settlement
- Ste. Genevieve and New Bourbon
- St. Louis
- When Incorporated
- Potosi
- St. Charles
- Portage des Sioux
- New Madrid
- St. Francois County
- Perry
- Mississippi
- Loutre Island
- "Boon's Lick"
- Cote Sans Dessien
- Howard County
- Some First Things
- Counties
- When Organized. |
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| CHAPTER V. - TERRITORIAL
ORGANIZATION |
28 - 31 |
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- Organization, 1812
- Council
- House of Representatives
- William Clark, fist Territorial Governor
- Edward Hempstead, First Delegate
- Spanish Grants
- First General Assembly
- Proceedings
- Second Assembly
- Proceedings
- Population of Territory
- Vote of Territory
- Rufus Easton
- Absent Members
- Third Assembly
- Proceedings
- Application for Admission |
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| CHAPTER VI. -
ADMITTED TO THE UNION |
31 - 34 |
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- Application of Missouri to
be Admitted into the Union
- Agitation of the Slavery Question
- "Missouri Compromise"
- Constitutional Convention of 1820
- Constitution Presented to Congress
- Further Resistance to Admission
- Mr. Clay and his Committee Make Report
- Second Compromise
- Missouri Admitted |
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| CHAPTER VII. - MISSOURI AS A
STATE |
35 - 38 |
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- First Election of Governor
and Other State Officers
- Senator and Representatives to General Assembly
- Sheriffs and Coroners
- U. S. Senator
- Representatives in Congress
- Supreme Court Judges
- Counties Organized
- Capital Moved to St. Charles
- Official Record of Territorial and State officers. |
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| CHAPTER VIII. -
CIVIL WAR IN MISSOURI |
39 - 46 |
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- Fort Sumter Fired Upon
- Call for 75,000 Men
- U. S. Arsenal at the Liberty, Missouri, Seized
- Proclamation of Governor Jackson
- General Order No. 7 -
- Legislature Convenes
- Camp Jackson Organized
- Sterling Price Appointed Major-general
- Frost's Letter to Lyon
- Lyon's Letter to Frost
- Surrender of Camp Jackson
- Proclamation of General Harney
- Conference Between Price and Harney
- Harney Superseded by Lyon
- Second Conference
- Governor Jackson Burns the Bridges Behind him
- Proclamation of Governor Jackson
- General Blair Takes Possession of Jefferson City
- Proclamation of Lyon
- Lyon at Springfield
- State Officers Declared Vacant
- General Fremont Assumes Command
- Proclamation of Lieutenant-governor Reynolds
- Proclamation of Jefferson Thompson and Governor Jackson
- Death of General Lyon
- Succeeded by Sturgis
- Proclamation of McCullough and Gamble
- Martial Law Declared
- Second Proclamation of Jeff. Thompson
- The President Modifies Fremont's Order
- Fremont Relieved by Hunter
- Proclamation of Price
- Hunter's Order of Assessment
- Hunter Declares Martial Law
- Order Relating to Newspapers
- Halleck Succeeds Hunter
- Halleck's Order No. 81
- Similar Order by Halleck
- Boone County Standard Confiscated
- Execution of Prisoners at Macon and Palmyra
- Genearl Ewing's Order No. 11
- General Rosecrans takes Command
- Massacre at Centralia
- Death of Bill Anderson
- General Dodge Succeeds General Rosecrans
- List of Battles |
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CHAPTER IX. - EARLY
MILITARY RECORD - FINISHED
3/24/2024 |
47 - 50 |
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- Black Hawk War
- Mormon Difficulties
- Florida War
- Mexican War. |
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| CHAPTER X. -
AGRICULTURAL AND MATERIAL WEALTH |
50 - 54 |
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- Missouri as an Agricultural
State
- The Different Crops
- Live Stock
- Horses
- Mules
- Milch Cows
- Oxen and Other Catle
- Sheep
- Hogs
- Comparisons
- Missouri Adapted to Live Stock Fruits
- Berries
- Grapes
- Railroads
- First Neigh of the "Iron Horse" in Missouri
- Names of Railroads
- Manufactures
- Great Bridge at St. Louis |
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| CHAPTER XI. -
EDUCATION |
55 - 61 |
| |
- Public School System of
Missouri
- Lincoln Institute
- Officers of Public School System
- Certificates of Teachers
- University of Missouri
- Schools
- Colleges
- Institutions of Learning
- Location
- Libraries
- Newspaper and periodical
- Number of School children
- Amount Expended
- Value of Grounds and Buildings
- "The Press" |
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| CHAPTER XII. -
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS |
62 - 65 |
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- Baptist Church
- Its History
- Congregational
- When Founded
- Its History
- Christian Church
- Its History
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Its History
- Methodist Episcopal Church
- Its History
- Presbyterian Church
- Its History
- United Presbyterian Church
- Its History
- Unitarian Church
- Its History
- Roman Catholic Church
- Its History |
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HISTORY OF ST. LOUIS. |
| ST. LOUIS |
66 - 76 |
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- First Settlement
- Arrival of the First Steamboat
- Removal of the Capital to Jefferson City
- When Incorporated
- Population by Decades
- First Lighted by Gas
- death of one of Her Founders, Pierre Choutau
- Cemeteries
- Financial Crash
- Bondholders and Coupon-clippers
- Value of Real and
Personal Property
- Manufacturers
- Criticism |
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HISTORY OF KANSAS CITY
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| KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI |
77 - 104 |
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- A Sketch
- The New Life
- Its First Settlement
- Steamboat Events from 1840 to 1846
- Mexican War
- Santa Fee Trade
- Railroads
- Commercial Advancement
- Stock Martin Market
- Pork packing Elevators and Grain Receipts
- Coal Receipts
- Buildings
- Railroad Changes
- Banks
- Newspapers
- Churches
- Secret Societies
- Public Schools
- Manufacturing Center
- Her Position and Trade
- Assessed Valuation
- Close |
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HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH
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ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI
- FINISHED
3/24/2024 |
106 - 126 |
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- Early Settlements
- The First Settlement at Blackstone Hills
- Robidoux
- Biographical Sketch
- At the Bluffs
- Then a Boy's Branch and Blacksnake Hills
- 1834-1836
- Robidoux's Home
- Employees
- Servant
- Ferry
- From 1837 to 1840
- Rival Towns
- Wolves |
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LAWS OF MISSOURI.
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| HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION LAW |
129 - 142 |
| |
- Husband not Liable
- Rights of Married Women
- Hedges Trimmed
- Changing School House Sites
- Marriage License
- Purchasing Books by Subscription
- Forms of Deeds, Leases and Mortgages
- Notes
- Orders
- Receipts
- Valuable Rules
- Weights and Measures |
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STATISTICS
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| POPULATION OF THE UNITED
STATES |
142 - 145 |
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- By Races
- Increase
- Miles of Railroad in United States
- Telegraph Lines and Wires
- Cotton Crop
- Coal Fields
- Cereal Production
- Presidential Vote from 1789 to 1880
- Dates of Presidents' Births |
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HISTORY OF LINN COUNTY
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|
CHAPTER I. - WHEN THE
WHITE MAN CAME THE RED MEN LEFT -
FINISHED 3/24/2024 |
149 - 158 |
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- Retrospect
- The Home of the Oppressed
- Linn County
- Bright Jewel
- The Indian's Departure
- Game
- The Dawn of Civilization
- Early Settlers
- Between 1820 to 1830
- Early Settlement
- Indian Mischief
- Indian Town
- Black Hawk War
- The Pendletons
- Death of William
- William Bowyer as a Hunter
- Locust Creek Country, the Happy Hunting grounds of the Indians
- Went to Mill, etc. |
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CHAPTER II. -
WHEN THE WILDERNESS COMMENCED TO BLOSSOM LIKE THE
ROSE |
158 - 165 |
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- 1837
- Influx of Settlers
- Their Homes and Trials
- The
First Mill - Schools
- Churches, Preachers, Teachers, and
Physicians
- Trading Point
- Prices of Goods
- Barter and
Sale
- Country Produce
- Game, Honey, etc.
- Scale of
Prices
- Life and Incidents
- Splitting Rails
- Work of
Progress
- Looking Back
- The Past and the Present |
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CHAPTER III. -
FROM PEACE TO WAR'S ALARMS -
FINISHED |
165 - 174 |
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- 1840 to 1850
- Names of Pioneers
- Schools
- Death of
Lewis F. Linn
- Mexican War
- The Call for Troops
- Linn
County in the War
- Company H., List of Names
- The Close of
the War
- What the Wild Sea Waves Divulged on California's
Golden Shore
- The Grand Rush
- Gold and Silver Lying Around
Loose
- The Hopes of the Living, Despair of the Dying, and
the Bones of the Dead
- Linn county Contributes her Quota |
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CHAPTER IV. - UPWARD AND ONWARD IN
MATERIAL PROGRESS - COMING
SOON |
175 - 185 |
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- Rapid Progress
- 1840 to 1860 Compared
- Increase of
Property and the Increase of the Tax Levy
- The Set-back
by the Civil War
- Shaking for a New Deal at the Close of
the War
- On the up Grade - Repairing Broken Fortunes and
Adding to New Ones
- 1865 to 1870
- Organizing the Shattered
Remains
- A Tornado
- A Matter of a Few Thousand Dollars on
the Delinquent List
- New Road Law and How it Worked
- Linn
County Fair
- Its Constitution and List of
Officers
- Busted - Rodents and Bounty
- Money for the Small
Boy
- Meteoric
- Murder of Willie McKinley
- Coroner's
Verdict
- Petition for Pardon
- Governor Crittenden's
Refusal
- His Reasons in Full |
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CHAPTER V. - OFFICIAL HISTORY OF LINN
COUNTY - COMING SOON |
185 - 194 |
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- What is Was, Is, and
now Expected to Be
- When organized - Act of
Incorporation
- Commissioners
- Metes and Bounds
- Change of
boundary Line
- First County Court
- Time and Place of
Meeting
- Dividing the County into Townships
- The First Tax
Levy
- Location of the County Seat
- Deed of John Holland
and Wife
- Named after Dr. Linn, U.S. Senator
- First Sale
of Lots by John D. Grant, Commissioner
- First
Court-house
- First Ferry License
- Benton Township
Organized
- Election, etc. |
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CHAPTER VI. - ELECTIONS THE GLORY OF
FREE INSTITUTIONS - COMING SOON |
194 - 205 |
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- The First
Election
- The Result
- Duncan Township
- First Defalcation
- Liberty Township
- First Money Borrowed by the County
- Town Lot Fund - Bridges
- Pleasant Hill Township
-
Defalcation of J. W. Minnis Settled in Full
-
County Treasurer Makes a Final Settlement and all O.K.
-
The Year 1842 Ran Behind
- Highland County
- Its
Organization as to Metes and Bounds, but still under
Linn County's Municipal Control
- Minor Sale of Linneus
Town Lots, 1844
- A Transfiguration
- The Reorganization
of Linn County in 1845, After Sullivan Was Taken Off
-
Townships and Their Metes and Bounds |
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CHAPTER VII. - INTENDED AS A TEMPLE OF
JUSTICE, THE NEW COURT HOUSE -
COMING SOON |
205 - 215 |
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- That Miserable Structure, the "Log" Court-house
-
Pride Takes Advance Steps
- $4,000 to Assert the New
Dignity Assumed by the People
- Order for the Building
of a New Temple of Justice
- Bridges
- Receipts and
Expenditures
- Change of Court-house Superintendents
-
First Public Administrator
- Town and County
-
court-house Finished, October 16, 1848
- Good Showing
-
Paying Back Borrowed Money, and the Interest Exceeds the
Principal
- Railroad Fever
- Donation of $200 for the H.
& S. J. Survey
- The First Primary
- The New Jail
-
Another Donation to the H. and S. J., $500, and Right of
Way Granted, Subscription, Etc.
- Several Items
- Baker
Township
- Enterprise Township
- 1858 to 1860 |
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CHAPTER VIII. - CHAOS BEGAN AND LIGHT
DAWNED - COMING SOON |
216 - 236 |
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- The Opening of the Fratricidal Strife
- Action of
the County Court
- Taxation and Collection
- Delinquent
Lists
- Several Important Items
- A Cupola for the
Court-house and Five Dollars a Day for the County Court
Judges
- Clay Township
- Bucklin District Township
- A
Variety of Information
- The Location, Plans, and
Building of the New Jail
- Cost, $8,680.26
-
Agricultural Association
- The Clarkson Defalcation
-
Items
- Financial
- Township Bond Indebtedness
- Offer
of compromise
- Address to the People by the Committee
-
How it Stands January 1, 1882
- The Tax Levy and Cost
and Collection for a Series of Years
- Linn County
Bonded Debt |
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CHAPTER IX. - SOIL, CLIMATE,
AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF LINN COUNTY
- COMING SOON |
287 - 254 |
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- Introductory
- Central
Position
- Topography
- Streams
- Climate
- Soil and
Productions
- Coal
- Stone
- Fruit-growing
- Variety
- Berries, Kinds,
Etc.
- Statistics
- Leading Crops
- Corn, Oats, Tobacco, and Wheat
- The
Crops of 1879
- Assessment of 1879, 1880, and 1881
- Number of
Horses, Mules, Hogs, Cattle, and Sheep for the Above Years
- The
Leading Breeds of Stock
- Their Choice - Summary |
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CHAPTER X. - THOSE WHO HELD OFFICE AND
SECURED THE EMOLUMENTS - COMING
SOON |
254 - 270 |
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- County
Judges, Sheriffs, Clerks, Treasurers, etc.
- Senatorial and
Congressional Districts
- Senators and Representatives
- Present
Congressmen and the Vote
- Judicial Circuit
- Judges and Attorneys
-
The Full List of Patriots Who Served the People, for the Honors
and Salaries Attached
- History of the Probate Court |
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CHAPTER XI. - STATE AND COUNTY'S
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES - COMING
SOON |
270 - 290 |
| |
- Educational
- School
Law and Section 7103
- Consolidation of State School Funds
- Why
Education Should be Universal
- Linn County's First Move
- Sales
of the Sixteenth Sections
- School Funds
- Organized into School
Districts
- The Funds of Each
- State Fund from 1850 to 1860
-
Township Fund Distributed from 1854 to 1863
- The Effects of the
Civil War
- After the Deluge
- New Organization of the School
Districts, 1866
- School and Swamp Lands
- Enumeration
- Town
Apportionment
- The Hannibal and St. Joe and Other Railroads
-
School Taxes
- School History in Detail from 1875 to 1881
-
State School Fund
- Closing Remarks |
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CHAPTER XII. - THE IRON
HORSE, AND WHAT IT COST LINN COUNTY - COMING SOON |
291 -
303 |
| |
- Opening Chorus
-
The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company
- Donations
-
Subscription of $25,000, and its forfeiture
- 69,470 Acres of
Linn County Land Given to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
-
About What the Road Cost to Linn County
- The Missouri Central,
The North Missouri Central and Several Other Changes of Name too
Numerous to Mention
- Taxation and Assessed Valuation
-
Subscription to the Central Missouri Branch of the Iowa & St.
Joseph Railroad
- The History of This Branch, Bonds voted, etc.,
from Alpha to Omega |
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CHAPTER XIII - AGRICULTURAL
UNITY AND POLITICAL AMALGAMATION - COMING SOON |
303 - 318 |
| |
- The Grange
-
Object and Aims
- The First Organization
- Rapid Progress
-
Names and Number of Grangers in the County
- Organization County
Grange
- Constitution
- The End
- The First Election
- Campaign
of 1840
- Songs
- Presidential Election 1844
- 54-40 or Phight
[sic]
- Fun and Free Whisky
- Whigs and Democrats, local Fights
- Linn County Democratic up to the Drake Constitution
- Also
After Its Repeal
- Close Figures
- Vote, County, State and
Congressional
- County Officials 1882 |
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CHAPTER XIV - STATEMENT OF
FACTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST - COMING SOON |
318 - 329 |
| |
- Poor-farm
- Its Cost
-
Lease and Family of Lease
- Sold, Purchased, and Traded
- Some
Interesting Facts
- Swamp Lands, When Selected
- Cost of First
Sale and Survey
- 28,759.99 Acres
- By Townships
- What it
Brought
- The Closing Sale
- Removal of County Seat a Failure
-
A Suit for Damages by Linneus against Brookfield Suggested
-
Vote of 1870 and that of 1880
- No Hope for Brookfield
- A
$75,000 Court-house
- Population of Linn County
- Per cent of
Gain |
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CHAPTER XV - WAR AND PEACE -
FINISHED 3/25/2024 |
330 -
340 |
| |
- The Heroes of 1812
- Their Names and Record
-
The First Deed of Record
- A Second Deed
- The First Will
- The
First Administrative Notice
- A Record of Forty Years
- Events
as They Happened from Year to Year
- A Chapter for Reference,
and a Key to the Contents of the General History of this Work
-
Distances, etc. |
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CHAPTER XVI - LINN COUNTY IN
THE CIVIL WAR -
FINISHED 3/26/2024 |
341 - 384 |
| |
- After the Presidential Election
of 1860
- Election of Delegates to the State Convention
- Up to
Fort Sumter
- After Fort Sumter
- First Federal Troops in the
County
- Capture of Black's Cannon
- The First Confederate
Troops
- Other Military Operations of 1861
- Leading Events of
1862
- The Hand of War is Felt, and it is Hard and Heavy
-
Organization of the Enrolled Missouri Militia
- Leading Events
of 1863
- Holtzclaw's Guerrillas
- Leading Events of 1864
- A
Bounty Offered
- Skirmishes in Jackson Township
- The Beginning
of the End
- Just Before the Collapse
- The End Comes
- Peace
-
Linn County's Soldiers in the Civil War
- The Blue and the Gray
- Company F, First Cavalry Missouri State Militia
- Federal or
Union Soldiers' Record
- Confederate Soldiers' Record |
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CHAPTER XVII - LOCUST CREEK
TOWNSHIP -
FINISHED 3/27/2024 |
384 - 402 |
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- Topography
- Early Settlers
- Births,
Marriages, and Deaths
- Ministers
- Schools
- Physicians
-
Spinning and Weaving
- Early Incidents
- Boundary Lines
-
Organization under the New Township Law
- Township Officers
-
Some Incidents of the Civil War
- Death of Judge Smith and
William Pendleton
- Raids of Bushwhackers and Excursions of the
"Truly Loil"
- Opposition to Railroad Tax
- Meetings
- Nichols
Tragedy, and Other Casualties
- Churches, etc.
-
BIOGRAPHIES
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CHAPTER XVIII - CITY OF
LINNEUS - COMING SOON |
402 - 482 |
| |
- Incorporation
- Its founder
- Some Reminiscenses [sic] of Early Times
- Wolves Make Music that
Lulls the Early Settler to Sleep
- A Woman's Strength and
Devotion
- The First Settler of Linneus a Colored Woman
- Aunt
Dinah's Experience
- Metes and Bounds
- The First Frame House
-
The First Native Born
- Churches and Schools
- First Merchants
-
Senator Benton's Visit
- Lynching of "Tennessee Tom"
- The First
Railroad Train
- Accidents and Crimes
- Business Houses
- Visit
of General Weaver
- Lodges, Societies, Churches, and City
Officers
- BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XIX - BROOKFIELD
TOWNSHIP - COMING SOON |
482 - 486 |
| |
- Topography
- Metes and bounds
- Its
Running Streams and Growth of Timber
- Coal Beds
- Early Days
-
Pioneer History and Incidents of Note
- Who Settled it and Where
They Came From Originally
- Part of Yellow Creek and Locust
Creek, and Wholly of Jefferson Since 1845
- A Voting Precinct
June 5, 1866
- Organized as Brookfield Township July 2, 1866
-
Township Officers Under the New Organization Law of 1872 and of
1880
- Population
- Assessor's Valuation
- Incidents, Accidents
and Crimes
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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|
CHAPTER XX - CITY OF
BROOKFIELD - COMING SOON |
487 - 498 |
| |
- Its Location
- The Scatters
- The Usual
Remarks About Game, etc.
- Who Gave it a Local Habitation and a
Name
- Boarding Shanties and Several Other Things
- Laid Out and
How it Grew and Prospered
- In 1861 Had Grown to About fifteen
Houses and Some Other Buildings
- The First Child Born and What
Followed
- Deaths and Burials
- Father Hogan
- The First School
- Brookfield in the Civil War
- Some Facts and Some Rumors Upon
Which Facts Were Based
- Brookfield Survived
- Small-pox Scare
-
Tragedies Growing out of the Great Strife
- The New Era and the
Past to be Buried in Oblivion
- Churches, Schools, Societies,
etc.
BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXI - AFTER THE
GREAT CIVIL WAR: - COMING
SOON |
499 - 568 |
| |
- The White Winged Angel Spreads her
Mantle of Peace
- New Life and a General Upward and Onward
Tendency
- Incorporation
- First Board of Trustees
- The First
Newspaper
- Prairie Fires
- Brass Band and a Base Ball Club,
Which Shows an Advanced State of Civilization, Combining with
Culture and Refinement
- Some More Accidents, and how the vote
stood for Grant and the "Smiler"
- Education
- The Measles,
Coal, and a New Addition
- Items of Interest, Including
the Park, Railroad Subscription, Engine-house and City
Hall, and the Great Fire of 1872
- Numerous Incidents,
Accidents, and a Closing of the City History
-
BIOGRAPHIES
- BROOKFIELD AND BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP |
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|
CHAPTER XXII - JEFFERSON
TOWNSHIP - COMING SOON |
569 - 582 |
| |
- Soil, Timber, Streams, and Undulating
Prairie
- Building Stone, Potter's and Brick Clay
- Her Rise and
Progress
- A Genuine Snake Story
- Old Settlers
- What They Wear
and How They Live
- The Young Folks' Sunday Nights
- Growth
-
Two Precincts and a Division
- Population and its Assessed
Valuation
- Crimes and Casualties
- Garfield memorial Service
-
Town Organization
- Officers, etc. |
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|
CHAPTER XXIII - CITY OF
LACLEDE - COMING SOON |
582 - 633 |
| |
- Its Location
- The Beauty of its Surroundings
- When Laid Out and by Whom
- Advance Progress
- Items of
Interest
- Taking a Rest
- The Effects of the Civil War
-
Incorporation
- Metes and Bounds
- Indian Visits
- City of the
Fourth Class
- Ward Boundaries
- Mayor and Alderman
- Out of
Debt
- County-seat Vote
- Business Houses
- Church and Civic
Societies
- The Full History of Holtzclaw's Raid in 1864
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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|
CHAPTER XXIV - TOWN AND
TOWNSHIP OF BUCKLIN -
COMPLETED (Reworked
3/24/2024) |
633 - 669 |
| |
- Town and Township of Bucklin
- When
Settled and by Whom
- Soil and its Fertility
- Material
Progress
- Valuation
- Indian Hunters
- Early Incidents
of Life, Marriages, Death, etc.
- The First School
District Organized
- Some Incidents in Justices' Courts
- Other Settlements and their Early History
- A Singular
Mistake
- Steam Whistle vs. Panther
- Railroad Rumpus
-
Some More of Civil War Incidents
- When Township was
Organized and Bucklin Township Incorporated
- Schools
and Churches
- Accidents and Crimes
- Tornado,
September, 1876
- Population of Bucklin
- Schools,
Churches, and Societies
- Its Business Interests
-
BIOGRAPHIES
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|
CHAPTER XXV - YELLOW CREEK
TOWNSHIP - PARTIAL |
669 - 694 |
| |
- When Settled
- Its metes and Bounds
-
Topography
- Land and Money
- Early Settlers and their
Trials
- Happenings
- Agriculture
- War Items
- Dead
Towns
- St. Kate, Its Past and Present
- Education and
Religion
- Death of W. H. Elliott, Founder of St.
Catharine
- Lodges and Societies
- Its Present and
Business Future
- Accidents
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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|
CHAPTER XXVI
- PARSONS CREEK TOWNSHIP - PARTIAL |
694 - 739 |
| |
- Metes and Bounds
- Topography
- Its
Sandstone Rock
- Streams and Timber
- When and by Whom Settled
-
Game
- What They Sold and Where They Sold it
- Progress,
Accidents and Crimes
- Township Organization and its Officers
-
West Baltimore
- Buttsville and Meadville
- When and by Whom
Settled
- Melange
- Incorporation of Meadville
- Its First
Officers
- Schools and Churches
- The Meadville
Newspaper
- Business Houses
- Lodges and Societies
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BIOGRAPHIES |
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739 - 780 |
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- Metes and Bounds
- Territory Curtailed
-
Cereals, Stocks and Grapes
- Fruits and the Vineyard
- Coal,
Stone, and Brick Clay
- Old Settlers
- The First Store
-
Schools, Churches and Graveyards
- Marriages, Births and Deaths
- Items of Interest
- Wolf Hunts and Election Yarns
- Railroad
Subscription
- Accidents
- Valuation and Township Officers
-
Browning
- When Incorporated
- The First House and Store
- The
Town, its Rise and Progress
- Schools
- Societies and Newspapers
- Purdin
- What it was and is
- Liberal Offers
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BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - CLAY
TOWNSHIP - COMING SOON |
781 - 797 |
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- Description
- Location
- Area and Valuation for
1881
- Population
- Early Settlement
- Breaking Prairie
- First
Birth, Marriage, and Death
- Schools and Churches
- Hunting
-
Early Times
- War Scenes
- Cyclone and Death
- Incidents and
Accidents
- Eversonville, Its Rise and Progress, Local officers
and Business Interests
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXIX - ENTERPRISE
TOWNSHIP -
FINISHED 12/7/2014 |
797 - 807 |
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- Metes and Bounds
- Timber and Streams
-
Area and Valuation
- When Organized
- Growth of the Baby
- The Pioneers
- Who They Were and Where They Came From
- The Natural Course of Events
- Churches and Schools
-
Ministers, Physicians, and Teachers
- Population
- Gain
- Village of Enterprise
- Its Buildings
- Cemetery
-
Business
- Accidents and Incidents
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BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXX - BAKER TOWNSHIP
- COMING SOON |
808 - 820 |
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- When Organized
- When Divided
-
Population and Wealth
- Area, Streams, woodlands, and
Prairies
- Settled and Settlers
- The March of Events
-
Christianity and Civilization go Hand in Hand
- From
1860 to 1870
- One Slave only
- The Champion Economical
Man
- Township Officers
- New Boston, When, Where, and
How it Grew and Prospered
- "Hell Square Acre"
- Current
Events
- Business
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXXI - NORTH SALEM
TOWNSHIP - COMING SOON |
820 - 827 |
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- Position and Description
- Early
Settlements
- "The Firsts"
- Old Time Politics
- During the War
- Miscellaneous Incidents
- Casualties and Crimes
- North Salem
Village, its Settlement, etc.
- Methodist Church
- Post-office
in the Township
- Official History
- County Churches,
Presbyterian and United Brethren . |
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CHAPTER XXXII - JACKSON
TOWNSHIP - PARTIAL |
827 - 843 |
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- Organization and Boundary Lines
- Number
of Acres and Square Miles
- Valuation of Real and
Personal Property, 1881
- The Lay of the Land
-
Half-tilled Farms and Home Surroundings
- Stock-raising
and Tobacco Culture
- When the Chinch-bugs got a Bite
-
Who Settled it and When, but it Wasn't Dunbar
- Several
Settlements
- Progress
- The Professions
- Schools and
Churches
- Cemeteries
- War Items
- Arnold's Death and
Retaliation
- Incidents and Accidents
- Dead Towns
-
Township Organization
- Township Officers
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXXIII - GRANTSVILLE
TOWNSHIP - COMING SOON |
843 - 865 |
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- The Last Organization
- Its Metes and
Bounds
- Early Settlement
- Schools, Churches, and Cemeteries
-
Timber and Streams
- Population and Valuation
- Square Miles and
Acres
- Scenes and Incidents
- Grantsville Village
- Township
Officers
- Business
-
BIOGRAPHIES |
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CHAPTER XXXIV - EARLY
HISTORY OF LINN COUNTY BAR - COMING SOON |
865 - 877 |
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- Introductory
- Riding the
Circuit
- Early Resident Lawyers
- Additions to the Linn County
Bar
- The Bar in 1860 and During the War
- At the Close of the
War
- Some Recollections
- Early Brookfield Bar
- Lawyers at
Other Towns
- Going Back to Brookfield and Linneus
- Younger
Members of the Linn County Bar
- General Remarks |
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CHAPTER XXXV - ADDENDA -SEE
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX |
878 - 833 |
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PORTRAITS:
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Tooey, James - 161
Marks, Abe - 195
Wheeler, R. J. - 263
Whitaker, Thos. - 297 |
Wilcox, John B. -
331
Willbarger, Spencer A. - 365
Stephens, Geo. W. - 399 |
Harvey, E. D.
- 433
Powers, John - 467
Smith, Jacob - 500 |
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includes: History of Missouri, St. Louis, Kansas
City,
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