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

An informative and historical overview of Camden County, Missouri including three separate books on CD which include 4 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1920's and 1929), plus the full Camden County section from the book: Goodspeed's History of Camden County, Missouri originally published in 1889.

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 Camden County, Missouri
Included here are the central Ozarks of Missouri sections of 4 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows Camden County in its earliest years.

B. A map of 1902 Camden County showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: Barnumton * Chauncey * Climax Springs * Coelleda * Crittenden * Damsel * Decaturville * Glaize * Hahatonka * Linncreek ( Linn Creek ) * Macks Creek * Montreal * Osage Iron Works * Purvis * Spring Valley * Stoutland * Swedeborg * Toronto * Wet Glaize * Zebra .

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

D. 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: Camden County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are four pages concerning Camden 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 Goodspeed's History of Camden County, Missouri.
This detailed (114 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Camden County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Camden County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information.

Here is just some of the information included:

• A description of the natural features
• Pioneer History
• Establishment of Camden County
• Circuit Court Transactions
• Political Record
• County Societies and Organizations
• Military Affairs (Civil War history) including movements of Union and Confederate forces and including battles and skirmishes.
• Schools
• Churches and related organizations
• History of Cities and Towns including: Climax Springs * Decaturville * Linn Creek * Mack's Creek * Oregon ( Erie) * Stoutland * Post Offices.

Included is a 33 page biographical section with biographies for each of the following surnames:
Appleton * Armstrong * Arnhold * Avery * Bollinger * Bowers * Burhans * Chalfant * Churchill * Darnell * Davis * Debery * Dodson * Earnest * Earp * Estes * Farmer * Feaster * Francisco * George * Gerhardt * Griesel * Hall * Hooker * Hopkins * Howard * Kendrick * King * Miller * Moulder * Nelson * O'Halloran * Osborn * Payne * Pease * Roach * Shubert * Simpson * Stanley * Vincent * Vogel * Watson * White * Winfrey

In addition to those listed above, more than 1000 other family surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.


Camden County is located in the central portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Hickory County * Benton County * Morgan County * Miller County * Pulaski County * Laclede County * Dallas County.

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 Camden County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.