550 Page 1883 History of Howard County including more than 400 biographies plus 20 different Howard County communities on 5 different maps
An informative and historical overview of Howard County, Missouri including three separate books on CD which include 5 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1920's and 1929: these 5 maps show a total of 20 different communities); plus the full 1883 National Historical Company "History of Howard County, Missouri" book (over 550 pages of history with over 400 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 Howard County, Missouri
Included here are the west central region of Missouri sections of 5 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Howard County just 35 years after the county was formed.
B. A map of 1902 Howard County showing the locations of 16 different settlements including all of the following:
Armstrong * Boonesboro * Burton * Estill * Fayette * Glasgow * Lisbon * Lloyds * Myers * New Franklin * Old Franklin * Roanoke * Sebree * Steinmetz * Talbot * Whites Store *
C. A map of 1904 Howard County showing the locations of 17 different settlements including all of the following:
Armstrong * Bluff Port * Boonesboro * Burton * Estill * Fayette * Franklin * Glasgow * Hilldale * Landmark * Lisbon * Myers * New Franklin * Roanoke * Rosalee * Steinmetz * Whites Store *
D. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.
E. 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: Howard County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Howard 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 concerning Howard County in 1913!
Book Three on CD: The complete 1883 National Historical Company "History of Howard County, Missouri".
This detailed (550 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Howard County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Howard County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 400 different biographies.
Here is just some of the information included:
Chapter I The Pioneers
Chapter II The Indians
Chapter III Territorial Laws
Chapter IV Pioneer Life
Chapter V County & Township Systems
Chapter VI Boone's Lick Township
Chapter VII Franklin Township
Chapter VIII Richmond Township
Chapter IX Chariton Township
Chapter X Prairie Township
Chapter XI Bench & Bar, Criminal Record
Chapter XII The Press
Chapter XIII Mexican War ? The Civil War
Chapter XIV Societies, Railroads, & Misc.
Chapter XV Political History
Chapter XVI Physical & Geological Features
Chapter XVII Public Schools
Chapter XVIII Ecclesiastical History
Chapter XIX Howard County Officials
Biographical Record by Township
Richmond Township
Chariton Township
Franklin Township
Boone's Lick Township
Moniteau Township
Prairie Township
Burton Township
Bonne Femme Township
Included is a total of more than 400 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) Ainsworth * Alsop * Ancell * Ashcraft * Avrett * Bagby * Bailey * Barton * Baskett * Bastin * Bell * Berkley * Birch * Blakey * Blakley * Bly * Boggs * Bond * Bonham * Boon * Botts * Boughner * Bowen * Bowman * Bowmer * Boyd * Brashear * Breaker * Briggs * Brooks * Brown * Burckhartt * Burnam * Burrus * Burton * Callaway * Canole * Carson * Cashell * Cason * Chancellor * Chinn * Chorn * Clark * Cockerill * Collins * Colvin * Condron * Cooper * Cornelius * Cox * Creson * Crews * Crigler * Cunningham * Darby * Dautel * Davis * Deatherage * Denney * Denny * Dentith * Digges * Dinwiddie * Dodd * Drace * Drake * Dudgeon * Duncan * Dunnica * Dysart * Earickson * Eaton * Edwards * Elkin * Elliott * Embree * Essig * Estill * Eubank * Evans * Feland * Fentem * Ferguson * Finks * Fisher * Forbes * Fuchs * Garner * Garvin * George * Givens * Gray * Green * Greene * Grimes * Grisham * Guss * Hall * Harris * Harrison * Harvey * Hawkins * Hays * Heath * Heberling * Hendrix * Hern * Herndon * Hickerson * Hitt * Hocker * Houck * Howard * Hudson * Hughes * Hume * Hurt * Innes * Jackman * Jackson * Johnson * Jones * Jordan * Kerby * Ketchum * Kingsbury * Knaus * Lay * Leadbetter * Lee * Lefever * Lehman * Leveridge * Lewis * Lloyd * Long * Lutz * Magruder * Maisburger * Martin * Mason * Maxwell * McCafferty * McCollough * McCrary * McGavock * Megraw * Metcalfe * Meyer * Michels * Miller * Mirick * Mitchell * Moore * Morehead * Morris * Morrison * Mortenson * Muir * Mullins * Munday * Murray * Nance * Naylor * Nipper * Norris * O'Brian * Ogden * Overstreet * Patterson * Payne * Payton * Peacher * Pearson * Peeler * Petrie * Phelps * Pierce * Pipes * Poirier * Potter * Pritchett * Prosser * Quinley * Rains * Rall * Ray * Reed * Reynolds * Rhea * Richards * Richardson * Ricketts * Ridgway * Robb * Robertson * Rock * Rooker * Rorer * Rosenbaum * Rowland * Sartain * Schmirk * Scott * Scrogin * Settle * Shackelford * Shafroth * Sharp * Shepherd * Shields * Shiflett * Short * Sigler * Silvey * Simpson * Skaggs * Smith * Snoddy * Snyder * Sperry * Spotts * St. Clair * Stanley * Stapleton * Steinmetz * Stettmund * Sturdivant * Swearingen * Talbot * Tatum * Taylor * Thomas * Thompson * Thomson * Thorp * Tillman * Tindall * Tinsley * Todd * Tolson * Turner * Tutt * Twyman * Vaughan * Viley * Wachter * Walden * Walker * Walkup * Wallace * Warden * Ware * Watts * Waugh * Wayland * Weaver * Webb * Wengler * White * Wilcoxson * Wilhoit * Wilkerson * Williams * Wilson * Winn * Wisely * Withers * Witt * Wolcott * Wood * Woods * Wright *
Howard County is located in the central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Saline County, Missouri * Chariton County, Missouri * Randolph County, Missouri * Boone County, Missouri * and Cooper County, Missouri.
Each of the 3 Ebooks on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat 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 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 of information including 583 pages of history and including more than 375 biographies for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Howard County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.