Barton County, Missouri: Biographies, History, and Historical Maps

207 pages including 166 biographies plus 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Barton County, Missouri including three separate books on CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929: these 6 maps show more than 20 different Barton County communities); plus the full 1889 Goodspeed's "History of Barton County, Missouri" book.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in three separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book One on CD: Maps of Barton County, Missouri
Included here are the South Western Ozarks region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Barton County four years before the county was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Barton County showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: Boston * Burgess * Bushnell * Dublin * Duval * Esrom * Golden City * Hannon * Iantha * Irwin * Kenoma * Lamar * Liberal * Malty * Milford * Minden Mines * Nashville * Newport * Pedro * Verdella *

C. A map of 1904 Barton County showing the locations of 19 different settlements including all of the following: Boston * Bushnell * Esrom * Golden City * Hannon * Iantha * Irwin * Kenoma * Lamar * Liberal * Malty * Milford * Mindenmines * Nashville * Newport * Oakton * Oskaloosa * Verdella * Wise *

D. A map of 1913 Barton County showing the locations of 22 different settlements including all of the following: Boston * Burgess * Bushnell * Dublin * Duval * Esrom * Golden City * Hannon * Iantha * Irwin Sta. * Kenoma * Lamar * Liberal * Milford * Minden * Nashville * Newport * Oakton * Oskaloosa * Verdella * Vernon * Wise *

E. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

F. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Book Two on CD: Barton County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are ten pages concerning Barton County from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information!

Book Three on CD: The complete 1889 "History of Barton County, Missouri".
This detailed (207 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Barton County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Barton County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 166 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Topographical & Geological
• Ozark Divide & Drainage
• Geology
• Farming, Fruit Culture
• Timber and Climate
• Resources and Statistics
• Early Settlers
• Pioneer History
• Land Entries
• Swamp and School Lands
• County & Townships Organized
• Attorneys of Note
• Roll of Lawyers
• County Interests
• Poor Farm
• Seat of Justice
• Barton Medical Society
• Railroads
• Towns and Villages: Lamar * Golden City * Liberal * Iantha * Milford * Denison * Minden Mines * Verdella * Sundry Villages
• War History (The Civil War)
• Record of Enlistments (very detailed, lengthy list)
• Well-known County Confederates
• Schools
• Chuches

Included is a total of 166 biographies including each of the following surnames:
(thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies) Ackason * Adams * Allen * Arnold * Ash * Baker * Baker * Barth * Bates * Baugh * Beam * Belk * Boyd * Bozarth * Breeden * Briley * Brous * Brown * Bryan * Bumgarner * Burnett * Burton * Campbell * Carl * Casner * Cessford * Chapman * Chiswell * Cleveland * Coffin * Cole * Combs * Comstock * Conrad * Couchman * Cook * Cranor * Cross * Cunningham *Curless * Dale * Davis * De Lissa * Deweese * Dickenson * Dixon * Doran * Duncan * Dye * Earp * Egger * Elder * Fast * Fink * Finley * Garrett * Gealy * Gilkey * Glixner * Gray * Green * Gregory * Griffin * Grigsby * Grimes * Harkless * Harlow * Hay * Hazlitt * Heath * Hendricks * Herlocker * Hicks * Hiller * Hinchman * Holliday * Huggins * Hull * Humphrey * Isenhower * Jackson * Jenkins * Johnson * Jones * Joyce * Kelley * Kentner * Kinder * Lasley * McComb * McCuistion * McCutchen * McGown * McGrath * McMurtry * McNary * McWilliams * Major * Mardick * Martin * Miller * Minnice * Morris * Morrow * Myers * Nelson * Nowlin * Parry * Pelton * Pittenger * Pool * Reed * Rhodes * Richards * Robison * Rogers * Rouse * Rundell * Russel * Seyffert * Shapley * Slavens * Slinker * Smith * Smoot * Snyder * Spence * Steele * Stone * Surbrugg Thomson * Thompson * Thurman * Timmonds * Tucker * Tyler * Usher * Van Meter * Vaughn * Ward * Warden * Warford * Wells * Werts * Wills * Wilson * Wimmer * Witter * Woody * Wray * Wyatt

Barton County is located in the Southwestern portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Vernon County, Missouri * Cedar County, Missouri * Dade County, Missouri * Jasper County, Missouri * .

Each of the three books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books on this CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium I or higher computer with a CD drive.

The cost for this CD containing all three books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Barton County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.