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

457 pages including 236 family biographies plus 6 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Clay County, Missouri on including three separate books on CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929)showing the locations of 36 settlements; plus the full 1885 Missouri Historical Company "History of Clay County, Missouri" book including 236 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 Clay County, Missouri
Included here are the Western Central region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Clay County just twenty nine years after the county was formed. Locations shown: Barry * Elm Grove * Kendall * Liberty * Randolph *

B. A map of 1902 Clay County showing the locations of 16 different settlements including all of the following: Bement * Birmingham * Clay * Excelsior Springs * Harlem * Holt * Kearney * Liberty * Minaville * Missouri City * Mosby * Moscow * Paradise * Randolph * Smithville * Winner *

C. A map of 1904 Clay County showing the locations of 23 different settlements including all of the following: Arley * Birmingham * Chandler * Excelsior Springs * Gashland * Harlem * Holt * Kearney * Liberty * Linden * Miltondale * Minaville * Missouri City * Mosby * Moscow * Narona * Nashua * Paradise * Prathersville * Randolph * Smithville * Thornton * Wabash *

D. A map of 1913 Clay County showing the locations of 27 different settlements including all of the following: Acme * Barry * Birmingham * Chandler * Claysville * Corum Springs * Excelsior Springs * Excelsior Springs Jct. * Gashland * Greenville * Holt * Kearney * Liberty * Liberty Landing * Linden * Miltondale * Missouri City * Mosby * Moscow * Nashua * North Kansas City * Paradise * Pratherville * Randolph * Smithville * Stockdale * Winner *

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: Clay County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Clay 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 1885 "History of Clay County, Missouri" by the National Historical Company.
This detailed (457 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Clay County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1885. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Clay County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 236 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Early History to the Organization
• The Indians
• The French and Spaniards
• First Explorations by Americans
• First American Settlers in Clay
• An Indian Fight
• Organization of Clay County
• History of County 1822 to 1830
• General Historical Sketch
• First Sessions of County Court
• First Circuit Court
• Crimes
• Roads and Ferries
• Valuation of Property in 1829
• History of County 1830 to 1840
• Early Days in Clay County
• The Deep Snow of 1830-31
• Building the First Court House
• Clay County in 1836
• The Morman War
• History of The County 1840 to 1844
• Great Flood of 1844
• Clay County in Mexican War
• From 1850 to Troubles in Kansas
• California Gold Fever
• Smithville Tragedy of 1854
• During Kansas Troubles to 1861
• The Civil War
• History of County during 1861
• The First Federal Troops
• The Battle of Blue Mills
• During the Year 1862
• Parker's Raid on Liberty
• Enrolled Missouri Militia
• During the Year 1863
• Raid on Missouri City
• After the Lawrence Raid
• The Paw-Paw Militia
• During the Year 1864
• Bushwhacker Raids
• Leading Incidents 1865-1885
• Last of the Bushwhackers
• Robbery of Clay County Bank
• Railroads
• The James Brothers ( Jesse James and Frank James )
• Clay County Schools
• William Jewell College
• Liberty Township
• Fishing River Township
• Platte Township
• Biographical
• Kearney Township
• Washington Township
• Gallatin Township
• City and Town Histories: Liberty * Missouri City * Excelsior Springs * Prathersville * Smithville * Gosneyville * Kearney * Holt * Greenville * Claysville * Barry * Harlem * Moscow * Arnold's Station * Minaville *
• Biographical

Included is a total of 236 biographies including each of the following surnames:
(more than 1000 other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Adams * Adkins * Allcorn * Allen * Anderson * Arnold * Atchison * Baldwin * Ballard * Barbour * Barnes * Beauchamp * Bellew * Bethel * Bevins * Bishop * Blackwood * Boggess * Boregard * Brasfield * Broadhurst * Bronaugh * Burgess * Burris * Buster * Buxton * Byrd * Calhoun * Campbell * Carpenter * Carter * Chrisman * Clardy * Clark * Cockrell * Corbin * Costello * Courtney * Crafton * Crawford * Damon * Davis * Denny * Ditto * Donovan * Dooley * Dougherty * Drew * Duncan * Eastin * Eaton * Elliott * England * Estes * Evans * Ewing * Field * Fish * Flack * Foley * Ford * Fowler * Fraher * Frame * Francis * Funk * Gardner * Garrett * Garth * Gash * Geib * George * Gillespie * Goodwin * Gordon * Gosney * Greason * Greenfield * Groom * Grubbs * Hardwicke * Harmon * Hartel * Hawkins * Henderson * Hodges * Horner * Huffaker * Hughes * Hunter * Hutchings * Isley * Jackson * Jacobs * Jenkins * Jennett * Johnson * Jones * Keller * King * Kraus * LaRue * Leach * Leavell * Lightburne * Lincoln * Lindsey * Logan * Major * Majors * Marsh * McCray * McKee * Means * Meffert * Messick * Milbourn * Miller * Mimms * Mitchell * Moore * Mosby * Mudd * Neal * Neeley * Netherton * Newlee * Newman * Norfleet * Nowlin * Nutter * Oldham * Park * Patterson * Pence * Piburn * Pipes * Porter * Posey * Prather * Price * Reddish * Reed * Rice * Riley * Robb * Robertson * Ross * Rothwell * Russell * Saunders * Schrader * Seymour * Shannon * Shouse * Simmons * Simrall * Smith * Soper * Stogdale * Stone * Stroeter * Summers * Swartz * Swetnam * Teaney * Thatcher * Tillery * Tillman * Timberlake * Todd * Trimble * Trumbo * Vaughn * Wagy * Wallis * Watkins * Whitaker * White * Wilhoit * Williams * Willmott * Wilson * Woods * Wright * Wymore * Yates * Young *



Clay County is located in the West Central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Platte County * Clinton County * Ray County * and Jackson 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 Clay County, Missouri from its first settlement to the mid 1880's.