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

900 Page 1884 History of Callaway County including more than 650 biographies plus 44 different Callaway County communities on 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Callaway 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 a total of 44 different communities); plus the full 1884 National Historical Company "History of Callaway County, Missouri" book (900 pages of history with over 650 different biographies).

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 Callaway 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 Callaway County just 31 years after the county was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Callaway County showing the locations of 23 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Fulton * Guthrie * Hatton * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * New Bloomfield * North Jefferson * Portland * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Wainwright * Williamsburg *

C. A map of 1904 Callaway County showing the locations of 41 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Boydsville * Callaway * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Cote Sans Dessein * Dixie * Earl * Effie * Elkins * Folsom * Fulton * Garrett * Guthrie * Hams Prairie * Hatton * Hereford * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * Musick * New Bloomfield * Pitcher * Portland * Prentiss * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Steedman * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Toledo * Venice * Wainwright * Williamsburg * Youngers * Yucatan *

D. A map of 1913 Callaway County showing the locations of the townships plus 34 different settlements including all of the following: Auxvasse * Bachelor * Boydsville * Callaway * Calwood * Carrington * Cedar City * Concord * Dixie * Elkins * Ellersville * Folsom * Fulton * Guthrie * Hams Prairie * Hatton * Heilburn * Holts Summit * McCredie * Millersburg * Mokane * Musick * New Bloomfield * North Jefferson * Portland * Readsville * Reform * Shamrock * Stedman * Stephens Store * Tebbetts * Toledo * Wainwright * Williamsburg *

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: Callaway County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Callaway 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 1884 National Historical Company "History of Callaway County, Missouri".
This detailed (900 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Callaway County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1884. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Callaway County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 650 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Introductory - First Settlements - County Organized
• Pioneer Life
• Early Courts
• County and Township Systems
• History of Auxvasse Township
• History of Bourbon Township
• History of Cedar Township
• History of Cote Sans Dessein Township
• History of Fulton Township
• History of Liberty Township
• History of Nine Mile Prairie Township
• History of Round Prairie Township
• History of St. Aubert Township
• History of Caldwell, Calwood & Jackson Townships
• Bench and Bar
• Crimes, Suicides and Incidents
• State Institutions For Deaf & Dumb - Lunatic Asylum
• History Westminster College - Syndocal Female College
• War of 1812 - Black Hawk War - Mexican War - Civil War
• Press - Railroads & Public Schools
• Political History & Elections
• Old Settlers' Meeting
• Agricultural Societies - Jefferson Davis
• Miscellaneous Matter
• Callaway County of To-Day
• Official Record of the County
• Ecclesiastical History
• Biographical by Township
• Lodges
• Churches

Included is a total of more than 650 biographies including each of the following surnames (NOTE: Some surnames have multiple biographies.) :
(thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies) Adair * Adams * Adcock * Agee * Alexander * Allen * Anderson * Andris * Ansell * Arens * Armstrong * Arnold * Arthur * Atkinson * Austin * Babb * Backer * Bailey * Baker * Barnes * Bartley * Basket * Baskett * Baynham * Beaven * Bell * Bennett * Benson * Berghauser * Berry * Betz * Bird * Bittner * Black * Blackburn * Blount * Blythe * Board * Bolton * Boone * Boswell * Boulware * Boyce * Boyd * Bradley * Branch * Brandon * Brashear * Breadwater * Bright * Brightbill * Brite * Brooks * Brown * Bruner * Bryan * Buchanan * Buckner * Burch * Burgett * Burks * Burnham * Burt * Bush * Caldwell * Callaway * Callerson * Callison * Carrington * Carter * Cason * Cave * Chaney * Charles * Chick * Childs * Chiles * Christian * Clardy * Clatterbuck * Clay * Coats * Collard * Collins * Coonce * Coons * Coulter * Covington * Cowan * Cowles * Craig * Craighead * Craigo * Crane * Crawford * Cress * Creswell * Crews * Criswell * Crook * Crow * Crowson * Crump * Culbertson * Cumberland * Curd * Darby * Davis * Dawson * Day * Dearing * Dedman * Dillard * Dockum * Doerries * Dorriss * Dorsey * Douglass * Dozier * Drake * Driskall * Driskell * Duley * Dulin * Duncan * Dunham * Dunlap * Dunn * Dyer * Ebersole * Edwards * Eley * Eller * Elley * Emmons * English * Erwin * Evans * Everhart * Everheart * Ewens * Ewing * Fant * Ferguson * Ferrier * Findley * Fisher * Fitzgerald * Fogerstrom * Foster * Fox * Foxworthy * Freeman * Fruite * Fry * Galbreth * Galwith * Games * Garrett * Gibbs * Gibson * Gilbert * Gill * Gilman * Gilmore * Gingerich * Glenn * Glover * Goodman * Gosney * Grant * Gray * Gregory * Griffin * Guthrie * Guy * Hall * Halley * Hamilton * Harding * Harkins * Harlan * Harper * Harris * Harrison * Hart * Hassler * Hatcher * Havens * Hawkins * Hays * Heinemann * Henderson * Herndon * Herring * Hersman * Heyten * Hobbs * Hobson * Hockaday * Holland * Holman * Holt * Hook * Hopkins * Hord * Horde * Hornbuckle * Houf * Howard * Howe * Hubbard * Hudson * Hughes * Hume * Humphreys * Hunter * Hutts * Jackson * Jacobs * James * Jameson * Jones * Jordan * Keller * Kelso * Kemp * Kenney * Kennon * Kerr * Key * Kidwell * King * Kitchen * Knight * Knox * Kreutz * Lacaff * Lail * Lamar * Landmann * Langley * Langtry * Langtrye * Larch * Larrimore * Lawrence * Laws * Lawther * Leach * Leeper * Lorenz * Lyle * Lynes * Maddox * Main * Maloney * Manning * Marquess * Martin * May * Maycock * Mayfield * McCall * McClanahan * McClelland * McClure * McCord * McCracken * McCrackin * McCue * McFarlane * McGhee * McIntire * McKamey * McKee * McKinney * McMahan * McPheeters * Miller * Ming * Moore * Moss * Murphy * Murray * Neff * Nesbit * Neukomm * Nevins * Nichols * Nicolson * Nixson * Noel * Nolley * Northcutt * Nusum * Offutt * Overfelt * Overton * Pace * Palmer * Patterson * Patton * Payne * Pearre * Penn * Peters * Pettibone * Pledge * Powell * Pratt * Price * Ramsey * Ratekin * Reily * Reno * Renoe * Reynolds * Rice * Ridgeway * Riley * Robertson * Robinson * Robnett * Rohn * Rood * Rootes * Rothwell * Russell * Rutledge * Sallee * Sampson * Samuel * Sanford * Sapp * Sayers * Scholl * Scott * Selby * Sharp * Shaw * Sheley * Shields * Simco * Simcoe * Sims * Sipple * Sitten * Sloan * Smart * Smith * Sneathen * Snedicor * Snell * Snyder * Spicer * Standefer * Steele * Stokes * Stone * Suggett * Tarleton * Tate * Taylor * Terry * Thomas * Thornton * Thorp * Thrailkill * Threlkeld * Thurmond * Tichenor * Tincher * Tipton * Todd * Trimble * Truitt * Tucker * Tureman * Turley * Turner * Tuttle * Van Bibber * Vaughan * Veirs * Vivion * Wagoner * Walker * Walthall * Washington * Watson * Wells * Wenger * West * Whaley * White * Whittington * Whyte * Wiggs * Wilburn * Wilkerson * Willcoxon * Williams * Williamson * Wilson * Windsor * Winn * Winterbower * Wise * Wood * Woodson * Word * Wren * Wright * Yantis * Yates * Yount *

Callaway County is located in the mid central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Audrain County, Missouri * Montgomery County, Missouri * Osage County, Missouri * Cole County, Missouri * Boone 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 Callaway County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1894.