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

1063 pages including 509 family biographies plus 6 different maps showing the locations of 40 Boone County communities, all on one CD

An informative and historical overview of Boone County, Missouri including three separate books on one CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929) showing the locations of 40 settlements; plus the full 1882 Western Historical Company "History of Boone County, Missouri" book including 509 biographies.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material on 3 separate books on 1 CD:

Book One on CD: Maps of Boone County, Missouri
Included here are the Mid Central region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Boone County just thirty one years after the county was formed. Locations shown: Boonsboro * Columbia * Nashville * Petersburg * Rocheport * Younger's

B. A map of 1902 Boone County showing the locations of 24 different settlements including all of the following: Ashland * Browns Sta. * Burlington * Centralia * Claysville * Columbia * Deerpark * Dripping Spring * Englewood * Hallsville * Harrisburg * Hinton * Huntsdale * Midway * Moores Switch * Perche * Providence * Rileysburg * Rocheport * Rutland * Stephens * Sturgeon * Wilton * Youngers *

C. A map of 1904 Boone County showing the locations of 32 different settlements including all of the following: Ashland * Browns Station * Centralia * Claysville * Columbia * Deerpark * Dripping Spring * Easley * Englewood * Ginlet * Hallsville * Harg * Harrisburg * Hartsburg * Hinton * Huntsdale * McBaine * Midway * Minnie * Murry * Perche *Pierpont * Providence * Riggs * Rileysburg * Rocheport * Rucker * Sapp * Shaw * Sturgeon * Wilton * Woodlandville*

D. A map of 1913 Boone County

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: Boone County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Boone 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 1882 "History of Boone County, Missouri" by the Western Historical Company.
This detailed (1063 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Boone County, Mo. from its earliest settlement up to 1882. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Boone County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 509 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Introduction
• First White Settlement
• Immigration to Boone's Lick
• History From 1820 to 1830
• Biography of Daniel Boone
• Town of Persia
• Town of Rocheport
• The Santa Fe Trade
• History From 1830 to 1840
• The First Legal Hanging
• The Black Hawk War
• The Florida War
• The Morman War
• Early Colleges and Academies
• History of the State University
• History From 1840 to 1850
• The Mexican War
• California Gold Fever
• History From 1850 to 1860
• California Emigrants
• The Civil War
• The Carnage at Centralia
• The List of Drafted Men
• Soldiers? Record
• History From 1866 to 1870
• Record Accepted Voters 1868
• History From 1870 to 1882
• Geology of Boone County
• Stephens College
• Cities, Towns & Villages: Ammon * Ashland * Boonesborough * Brown's Station * Centralia * Columbia * Dripping Spring * Everett * Germantown * Hallsville * Harrisburg * Lebanon * Nashville * Perchetown * Persia * Providence * Rocheport * Stonesport * Sturgeon * Woodlandville
• Biographies
• Boone County Live Stock
• Boone County Officials

Included is a total of 509 biographies including each of the following surnames:
(more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Adams * Alexander * Allison * Ammons * Anderson * Angell * Anthony * Arnett * Arnold * Austeel * Austin * Babb * Baker * Baldridge * Baldwin * Banks * Barger * Barnes * Barron * Barth * Barton * Bass * Bateman * Batterton * Bay * Beattie * Beazley * Biggs * Blackwell * Blakemore * Boothe * Boswell * Boulton * Bowling * Boyce * Bradford * Bradley * Brady * Bramlett * Bright * Brown * Bruton * Bryan * Bryant * Bryson * Burnett * Burnham * Bush * Butler * Campbell * Carr * Carter * Challes * Chambers * Champion * Chance * Clark * Clarkson * Clayton * Cochran * Conger * Conley * Connelly * Conway * Cook * Corlew * Cowden * Cross * Croswhite * Crumbaugh * Curtwright * Darby * Davis * Denham * Devier * Diehl * Dimitt * Dimmitt * Dinwiddie * Dodson * Dorsey * Douglass * Doyle * Drummond * Duncan * Dusenbury * Dysart * Early * Edmonds * Elkins * Elliott * Ellis * Emmitt * Estes * Evans * Farley * Fay * Feely * Fenton * Ferguson * Ficklin * Findley * Fisher * Flood * Flynt * Forbis * Forbis * Fountain * Fretwell * Fyfer * Gans * Garrett * Garth * Gay * Gentry * Gibbs * Glenn * Goin * Goodding * Gordon * Goslin * Grossman * Guitar * Gulick * Haden * Hagans * Hall * Harris * Hatton * Hawkins * Hazelrigg * Head * Henderson * Henry * Hern * Herndon * Hickam * Hickman * Hill * Hinman * Hockensmith * Hocker * Hodge * Hopper * Horner * Houston * Hubbard * Hubbell * Hulen * Hulett * Hultz * Hume * Hunt * Huntington * Hurt * Iglehart * Isbell * Jackson * Jacobs * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Kahn * Karnes * Keene * Keith * Kemper * Kennan * Kern * Kerr * King * Kirtley * Kneisley * Kurtz * Langston * Laws * Lemon * Lenoir * Lewis * Lientz * Lindsay * Lockridge * Lonsdale * Lovejoy * Lowrey * Lowry * Lyell * Machir * Mars * Martin * Mastersen * Matthews * Maupin * Maxwell * McAlester * McAllister * McAnally * McBride * McCallister * McCauley * McComas * McConaughey * McDaniel * McDonald * McGhee * McGuire * McIntire * McKenna * McNutt * McQuitty * Middleton * Miller * Minor * Mitchell * Montreif * More * Morse * Moss * Murry * Nichols * Noe * Norris * Norwood * Old * Oliver * O'Meara * Orear * Orr * Ott * Palmer * Pannell * Paxton * Peck * Pelsue * Pemberton * Penter * Persinger * Philips * Phillips * Pickert * Pipes * Points * Prather * Pratt * Prewitt * Price * Proctor * Prowell * Pruette * Quinn * Reams * Reed * Reid * Rice * Ridgway * Riggins * Roberts * Robinson * Robnett * Rochford * Roddy * Rodemyre * Rogers * Rollins * Rothwell * Royall * Rucker * Russell * Sames * Sampson * Samuel * Sappington * Schults * Schweitzer * Scott * Scruggs * Sears * Sebastian * Settles * Sexton * Shelnutt * Sherwood * Shobe * Shock * Shryock * Sims * Sitton * Slack * Slade * Smith * Sneed * Spence * Spencer * Spiers * Stark * Stephens * Sterne * Stevinson * Stewart * Stice * Stone * Summers * Swallow * Switzler * Taylor * Thomas * Threlkeld * Thurston * Toalson * Tracy * Trice * Trimble * Truby * Tucker * Tumy * Turner * Tuttle * Vanausdal * Vanhorn * Via * Victor * Vivion * Wade * Watson * Waugh * Wayland * Webster * Welch * Westbrook * Wharton * Whipple * White * Whittle * Wilcox * Wilhite * Wilkinson * Williams * Williamson * Wilson * Wingo * Wood * Woods * Wright * Wyatt * Yeaman * Young **



Boone County is located in the Mid Central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Howard County * Randolph County * Audrain County * Callaway County * Cole County * Moniteau County * and Cooper County * .

Each of the 3 Ebooks on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat 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 ebooks 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 or equivilent computer with a cd drive.

The cost for this CD containing all 3 books on CD described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A vast amount of information for very little money! A truly fascinating view of Boone County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1880's.