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

An informative and historical overview of Cole County, Missouri  including three separate books on CD which include 6 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929), plus the full Cole County section from the book: Goodspeed's History of Cole 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 Cole County, Missouri
Included here are the North Central Ozarks region of Missouri sections of 6 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Cole County just 31 years after the county was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Cole County showing the locations of 15 different settlements including all of the following: * Brazito * Cedar City * Decatur * Duck * Elston * Hickoryhill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * Scruggs * Taos * Teal *

C. A map of 1904 Cole County showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: * Bass * Brazito * Centertown * Decatur * Elston * Henley * Hickoryhill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Millbrook * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * Saint Thomas * Scrivner * Scruggs * Taos * Teal * Wardsville *

D. A map of 1913 Cole County showing the locations of 23 different settlements including all of the following: * Bass * Brazito * Centertown * Decatur * Elston * Enon * Eugene * Ewing's * Henley * Hickory Hill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * McKinney * Moreau * Osage Bluff * Scrivner * Scruggs * Scott * St. Thomas * Taos * Teal * Wardsville *

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: Cole County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are six pages concerning Cole 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 Cole County, Missouri
This detailed (192 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of information about Cole County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Cole 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 Cole County
• Early Settlers
• Early Land Entries
• Circuit Court Transactions
• Political Record
• County Societies and Organizations
• Military Affairs (Civil War history) Movements of Union and Confederate forces including battles and skirmishes. This section includes a very lengthly list of soldiers (both Union and Confederate) from the Cole County, Missouri area.
• Schools
• Churches and related organizations
• History of Cities and Towns including: * Belleville * Centre Town * Chouteau * Elston * Hickory Hill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * St. Thomas * Stringtown *

Included is a 81 page biographical section with biographies for each of the following surnames:
* Alexander * Anderson * Antweiler * Arnhold * Bandelier * Beckers * Berry * Binder * Bolton * Brenner * Brunk * Buckner * Buente * Clarenbach * Clarke * Cox * Creedon * Crede * Dallmeyer * Davison * Diel * Diercks * Dix * Dulle * Dunlop * Edwards * Elston * Engelbrecht * Enloe * Ernst * Fischer * Freshour * Garnett * George * Glover * Gordon * Garman * Greenup * Grimshaw * Handley * Harding * Hartley * Henley * Hoog * Huegel * Humpert * Kautsch * Knernscheld * Koehler * Kroeger * Lamkin * Linhardt * Lockett * Lohman * Long * Lusk * McCarty * McKinney * McWorkman * Maddux * Mahan * Martin * Mayens * Moore * Murphy * Nieghorn * Noland * Obermayer * Ohnemueller * Opel * Ortmeyer * Ott * Pfunder * Plummer * Popp * Prenger * Raithel * Rakes * Rephlo * Richter * Robertson * Roer * Routszong * Schell * Scheperle * Schirmer * Schmucker * Schleer * Scott * Scruggs * Sinks * Sommer * Spurr * Stampfli * Steffens * Straus * Summerer * Swift * Tagart * Tanner * Thompson * Thorpe * Wagner * Walser * Ward * Wells * Young * Zimmermann * Zuber *

In addition to those listed above, hundreds upon hundreds of other family surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.


Cole County is located in the North Central portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Moniteau County, Missouri * Boone County, Missouri * Callaway County, Missouri * Miller County, Missouri * and Osage 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 Cole County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.