Howard County, Arkansas: Biographies, History, and Historical Maps

77 pages including 116 family biographies plus 4 different historical maps featuring the locations of 34 Howard County communities

An informative and historical overview of Howard County, Arkansas including two separate books on CD which include 4 historical maps (1855, 1895, 1898, and 1915); plus the full 1890 Goodspeed Publishing Company "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas" book including 116 family biographies.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in two separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book One on CD: Maps of Howard County, Arkansas
Included here are the Southwest region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1855 map that shows the area eighteen years before Howard County, Arkansas was created.  Howard County was created in 1873 primarily from Hempstead and Sevier Counties with small portions from Polk and Pike Counties.

B. A map of 1895 Howard County showing the locations of 17 different settlements including all of the following: Antimony * Centerpoint * Corinth * Duckett * Euclid * Galena * Markham * Martha * Mineola * Muddy Fork * Nashville * New Moon * Pates * Rosadale * Saratoga * Tolette * Umpire *

C. A map of 1898 Howard County showing the locations of 22 different settlements including all of the following: Allbrook * Antimony * Buckrange * Centerpoint * Corinth * Duckett * Eldridge * Euclid * Forgy * Galena * Martha * Mineral Springs * Minnie * Muddyfork * Nashville * New Moon * Pates * Picayune * Rosadale * Saratoga * Tollette * Umpire *

D. A map of 1915 Howard County showing the locations of 25 different settlements including all of the following: Antimony * Athens * Baker Springs * Buck Range * Carl * Center Point * Corinth * Cowling * Dial * Dierks * Duckett * Galena * Henry * Howe * Markham * Martha * McNab * Mineola * Mineral Springs * Minnie * Nashville * Saratoga * Schaal * Tollette * Umpire *



Book Two on CD: The complete 1890 "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas" by the Goodspeed Publishing Company
This detailed (77 pages in all) book has a large amount of information about Howard County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1890. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Howard County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 116 different family biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Soils
• Agriculture
• Timber
• Livestock
• Minerals and Mining
• Property Valuations
• Population of Howard County
• Howard County Officials
• Howard County Organized
• Boundaries of Howard County
• Howard County Rivers and Streams
• Churches in Howard County
• Howard County Lodges
• Howard County Newspapers
• Schools in Howard County
• Negro Uprising of 1883
• Howard County Crime Record
• The Civil War in Howard County
• Howard County Cities, Towns, and Villages: Antimony City * Centre Point * Mineral Springs * Nashville * Picayune * Saratoga
• Howard County Biographical Sketches

Included is a total of 116 Howard County family biographies including each of the following surnames: (Some surnames have multiple biographies) (hundreds of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies):  Anderson * Baker * Barefield * Bell * Bishop * Briggs * Burgess * Cheatham * Clark * Click * Collins * Copeland * Corn * Coulter * Cowling * Dickinson * Dillard * Downs * Draper * Epperson * Faulkner * Feazel * Forgy * Fricks * Gilbert * Gillean * Goodlett * Goodwin * Gosnell * Graves * Green * Grounds * Hancock * Hester * Hill * Holt * Hudspeth * Hughes * Hutchinson * Hutchison * Jackson * Jacques * Jenkins * Johnson * Jones * Kelley * Kennedy * Lane * Latimer * Lee * Levi * Littlefield * Logan * Martindale * McClendon * McCrary * Millwee * Moncrief * Morgan * Neal * Norwood * Parker * Parrish * Pate * Pinkerton * Poe * Pope * Price * Props * Rector * Reeder * Reese * Rodgers * Shaver * Shepherd * Smith * Somervell * Spates * Stone * Sutton * Sypert * Toland * Tollett * Turner * Turrentine * Van Dyck * Wallace * Watkins * Watson * Westbrook * Whitmore * Williams * Womack * Yowell 

Howard County is located in Southwest Arkansas and is surrounded by the following counties: Sevier County, Arkansas * Polk County, Arkansas * Pike County, Arkansas * and Hempstead County, Arkansas .

Each of the 2 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 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 both books described above is only $7.95 plus shipping! A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Howard County, Arkansas from its first settlement to 1890.