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

More than 1500 pages including more than 1350 biographies plus 68 different Jasper County communities on 7 different maps, ALL on one CD

An informative and historical overview of Jasper County, Missouri on CD including five separate Ebooks which include 7 historical maps (1851, 1881, 1902, 1904, 1913, 1920's and 1929: these 7 maps show a total of 68 different communities); plus the full 1883 Mills & Co. "History of Jasper County, Missouri" book (974 pages of history with 1026 different biographies); plus the full 1901 Lewis Publishing Co. "The Biographical Record of Jasper County, Missouri" book (526 pages with 335 different biographies; plus a fascinating little 52 page 1913 booklet promoting Joplin, Missouri titled "Joplin, Missouri: The City of Wealth, Industry and Opportunity".

This fascinating and detailed CD contains all of the following material in 5 separate books on CD:

Book One CD: Maps of Jasper County, Missouri
Included here are the South Western Ozarks region of Missouri sections of 7 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Jasper County just 10 years after the county was formed.

B. A map of 1883 Jasper County showing the locations of 28 different settlements including all of the following: Alba * Avilla * Blende City * Brest * Carl Junction * Carterville * Carthage * Cary * Diamond City * Dubuque * Dudenville * Fidelity * Galesburg * Georgia City * Jasper City * Joplin * Knights * Medoc * Mossville * Opolis * Oregon * Oronogo * Reeds * Sarcoxie * Scotland * Smithfield * Waco * Webb City *

C. A map of 1902 Jasper County showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Alba * Asbury * Avilla * Blendsville * Brest * Carl Junction * Carthage * Carytown * Dudenville * Galesburg * Jackson * Jasper * Joplin * Knights * Maplegrove * Medoc * Neck * Oronogo * Prosperity * Reeds * Sarcoxie * Scotland * Smithfield * Waco * Webb City * Zincite *

D. A map of 1904 Jasper County showing the locations of 33 different settlements including all of the following: Alba * Asbury * Avilla * Breeze * Brest * Cagle * Carl Junction * Carterville * Carthage * Carytown * Chitwood * Dimple * Dudenville * Duenweg * Fidelity * Galesburg * Georgia City * Jasper * Joplin * Maple Grove * Medoc * Neck * Oronogo * Parshley * Prosperity * Reeds * Sarcoxie * Scotland * Smithfield * Tuckahoe * Waco * Webb City * Zincite *

E. A map of 1913 Jasper County showing the locations of 58 different settlements including all of the following: Alba * Asbury * Avilla * Blende City * Breeze * Brest * Burch Center * Carl Junction * Carterville * Carthage * Carthage Jct. * Carytown * Cave Springs * Center Creek * Chitwood * Cliffwood * Dimple * Dudenville * Duenweg * Duenweg Jct. * Eagle * Fidelity * Flint * Forest Mill * Galesburg * Georgia City * Gulfton * Hallwood * Hilltop * Jackson * Jasper * Joplin * Knights * Larussell * Macy * Malagin * Mansur * Maple Grove * Marblehead * Medoc * Neck * Opolis * Oronogo * Oronongo Jct. * Parshley * Porto Rico * Purcell * Reeds * Rex * Sarcoxie * Scotland * Smithfield * Thoms * Tuckahoe * Villa Heights * Waco * Webb City * Zincite

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

G. 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: Jasper County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are ten pages concerning Jasper 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 1883 Mills & Company "History of Jasper County, Missouri".
This detailed (974 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Jasper County, Mo. from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Jasper County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 1026 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Introduction and Name
• Natural History
• Early Settlements and Pioneers
• Organization
• Railroads
• The Courts and Bar
• The Medical Profession
• Political History
• Religious History
• Early History of Carthage
• Annals of Carthage
• Carthage City Government
• Churches of Carthage
• Educational
• Carthage Public Enterprises
• Commercial and Business Interests
• Social Development
• Carthage Business Directory
• Introduction to Joplin History
• Early History of Joplin
• Joplin from 1873 to 1883
• Joplin City Government
• Joplin Churches
• Joplin Educational Interests
• Joplin Public Enterprises
• Joplin Business Enterprises
• Mining
• Social Development
• Joplin Business Directory
• Joplin Township, Webb City, & Carterville
• Township organization and history

Included is a total of 1026 biographies including each of the following surnames (NOTE: An additional 335 biographies are included in the 1901 Lewis & Co. book also on this same CD.) :
(thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies) Abbott * Alexander * Allen * Allison * Anderson * Archer * Armstrong * Arnold * Arthur * Ashens * Atkinson * Ault * Aylor * Ayre * Babst * Bacon * Baker * Baldwin * Ballard * Barbour * Barclay * Bardoe * Barker * Barkley * Barnard * Barnes * Barrett * Bartlett * Bartley * Bass * Bawbell * Beamer * Beasley * Beebe * Bell * Benward * Berrian * Berry * Besse * Bice * Biddlecome * Binney * Bird * Birkhead * Bishop * Bissell * Bistline * Black * Blair * Blake * Blanton * Boas * Bodenhamer * Bodley * Bolander * Borger * Botkin * Bottenfield * Boucher * Bowers * Bowman * Boyd * Bradbury * Bradley * Bradshaw * Brannan * Brenneman * Briggs * Brinkerhoff * Bristow * Broadley * Brock * Brown * Browning * Bruton * Buchanan * Bucher * Buckbee * Burch * Burgess * Burgoon * Burkholder * Burton * Busby * Butler * Buzzard * Byers * Byler * Caffee * Cagle * Campbell * Carmin * Carnahan * Carns * Carr * Carson * Carter * Carver * Cather * Cathers * Chambers * Chapman * Chappell * Charlson * Chatelle * Chester * Chew * Chickering * Childers * Childress * Chinn * Chitwood * Church * Clark * Clarkson * Claycomb * Cline * Cloud * Clouser * Clow * Clubb * Cofer * Coleman * Collier * Collings * Collins * Colton * Columbia * Connely * Cooley * Cooper * Corder * Corwin * Cox * Crain * Crandall * Craycroft * Creech * Cristy * Crow * Crowder * Crowner * Crutcher * Cummings * Cunningham * Curley * Currah * Cushman * Dahill * Damon * Daugherty * Davenport * Davidson * Davis * Davison * Deagan * DeBoard * Dehart * Delp * Denney * Dennis * Deonier * Desieux * Dietrich * Dillender * Dixon * Dolan * Donehoo * Doran * Doty * Dougherty * Downs * Drake * Dryden * Dudman * Dumars * Duncan * Dunlap * Durboraw * Dykeman * Earl * Edinger * Edwards * Eells * Elliott * Ellis * Ellison * Ellston * English * Enos * Enyart * Etter * Evans * Fagg * Fairbanks * Faith * Fallis * Faskin * Faucett * Ferguson * Fetters * Fewell * Filler * Fishburn * Fitzer * Fitzpatrick * Flagg * Flannigan * Fleck * Fletcher * Floyd * Follmer * Foster * Fountain * Fox * Franklin * Franks * Frazier * Freed * Freeman * Frost * Fuller * Fullerton * Fullmer * Furgeson * Gabriel * Gaede * Gaither * Galbreath * Gammon * Gardner * Garnett * Gasperson * Gassaway * Geer * Geldmacher * George * Gernsey * Gibson * Gilbert * Gill * Gilmer * Glasscock * Glassford * Glover * Good * Goode * Goodwin * Gore * Gould * Graham * Greable * Green * Greenwade * Gresham * Grieb * Griffith * Griswold * Grubbs * Guinn * Gumm * Gustafson * Guthrie * Hagar * Haggard * Haire * Hall * Halliburton * Halyard * Hamilton * Hammar * Hammer * Hancock * Handcock * Hannum * Hardwicke * Harker * Harlan * Harmany * Harper * Harrington * Harris * Harrison * Hart * Harvey * Hatcher * Hauck * Haughawout * Haven * Hayward * Hayzlett * Hazen * Hazle * Head * Headlee * Hedge * Hedrick * Hefley * Hegwer * Helt * Henderson * Hendricks * Hendrickson * Henley * Henrichs * Henry * Hern * Heston * Hibler * Hickey * Hickman * Highwood * Hilburn * Hill * Hitchcock * Hixson * Hobbs * Holcomb * Holden * Holladay * Holland * Hollingsworth * Holman * Holt * Holton * Hood * Hoofnagle * Hornback * Horrell * Horton * Hottel * Howard * Hoyt * Hubbard * Hubbart * Huber * Hughes * Hunt * Hunter * Hutchens * Huth * Imel * Imhoff * Irwin * Isenman * Isherwood * Jackson * Jacobs * Jenkins * John * Johnson * Johnston * Joiner * Jones * Keller * Kelley * Keltner * Kerfoot * Kessler * Kilgore * Kinney * Klotz * Knight * Koehler * Koontz * Krauch * Kyle * Kyte * LaForce * Lair * Landauer * Landers * Lane * Larrick * Lauderbaugh * Lavery * Lawson * Le Masters * Leaming * Leckie * Leidy * Leonard * Lewis * Lillie * Lindemoode * Lipscomb * Little * Livingston * Lofton * Logan * Long * Loop * Lowe * Lowenstein * Lowery * Lowry * Loyd * Luscombe * Lyngar * Magoffin * Maley * Mallett * Maltbie * Manker * Margrave * Martin * Martin * Mason * Mateer * Mathews * Matthews * Maxey * Maxwell * May * McAboy * McAntire * McBride * McCabe * McCarty * McClelland * McConey * McCorkle * McCormack * McCormick * McCray * McCrillis * McCulley * McDowell * McEntire * McFerran * McGowan * McIntyre * McKee * McKnight * McMillan * McNair * McNallie * McNutt * McQuiston * McQuivey * Meador * Melugin * Mentzer * Merriss * Merwin * Messick * Meyer * Miles * Miller * Milless * Mills * Milton * Mishler * Mitchell * Molyneux * Montague * Moody * Moore * Moorman * Moose * Morgan * Morris * Morse * Moss * Motherspaw * Mottley * Muennig * Mullen * Mullin * Murphy * Myers * Napper * Neeley * Neighbours * Nilson * Nixon * Norris * Ogden * Olcott * Olson * Onstott * Orear * Ornduff * Osborn * Overstreet * Overton * Owen * Ozment * Palmer * Parker * Parks * Patrick * Paul * Paxton * Payton * Peacock * Peed * Peel * Peirce * Pelsue * Perry * PeTit * Pettit * Petty * Phelps * Philips * Picher * Piercy * Pike * Pinney * Pitts * Pixley * Plumb * Pollard * Pool * Porter * Post * Potter * Poundstone * Powell * Preston * Pribbenow * Price * Prigmore * Prosser * Prutsman * Putnam * Quinn * Quirk * Rader * Ragain * Ragland * Ralston * Ramsey * Randall * Rankin * Ray * Read * Redburn * Reed * Reffue * Regan * Reid * Reynolds * Rhodes * Rice * Richards * Richardson * Richwine * Rickner * Riggen * Riley * Riseling * Ritchie * Robbins * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Robison * Roesch * Rogers * Roney * Roos * Roper * Rose * Ross * Rowland * Royer * Ruddick * Rush * Rusk * Russum * Sagar * Sailor * Sample * Sanders * Sandt * Sanford * Sargent * Schifferdecker * Schlessman * Schmierer * Schnur * Schooler * Schooling * Scott * Searle * Seela * Serage * Seymour * Shaffer * Shangle * Shapley * Shaw * Shehane * Sheldon * Shell * Shelton * Shepherd * Shields * Shirrod * Shively * Shoemaker * Shoot * Sides * Sieber * Sigler * Silvey * Simpson * Sloane * Smith * Snapp * Snead * Snodgress * Sonnichson * Southard * Spencer * Sponable * Spracklen * Sprague * Spurgin * Squire * St. John * Stafford * Stanton * Staples * Starr * Stemmons * Stemmons * Stepp * Stevens * Stevenson * Steward * Stewart * Stiers * Stillwell * Stith * Stone * Strickland * Stuart * Stuckey * Stults * Sutton * Swaim * Swander * Swart * Swartz * Sweet * Swift * Swihart * Swindle * Tabler * Taylor * Teis * Terry * Thacker * Tharp * Thomas * Thompson * Tiller * Tilley * Titus * Tout * Tower * Trigg * Troup * Troutman * Tucker * Turk * Turner * Tutcher * Tyler * Ulmer * Van Buskirk * Vanbeber * Vawter * Viele * Vincent * Vititow * Vivion * Wagner * Waite * Wakefield * Walker * Wallace * Wallar * Walls * Waltz * Ward * Wardlow * Ware * Warfield * Warner * Waters * Watson * Watt * Weathers * Webb * Webster * Weed * Weeks * Wegener * Wells * West * Westfall * Weymann * Wheeler * Whitaker * White * Whitehead * Whiteley * Whitlock * Whitworth * Wild * Wilks * Williams * Willoughby * Wills * Wilson * Wise * Witten * Wolf * Wolf * Wolfe * Wood * Woodmansee * Woodrow * Workizer * Wormington * Wright * Yager * Yaryan * Yeager * Yoder * Yost * Young * Zane * Zellers * Zenor * Zentner * Zimmerman

Book Four on CD: The complete 1901 Lewis Publishing Company "The Biographical Record of Jasper County, Missouri".
This 526 page book is devoted to biographies of Jasper County, Mo. citizens in 1901. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages of this important Jasper County, Missouri book.

Included is a total of 335 biographies including each of the following surnames:
Adams * Alexander * Allen * Anderson * Arey * Atherton * Ault * Ayre * Bagby * Baird * Baker * Barbee * Barrett * Bayne * Bell * Boqua * Boss * Bradford * Brooks * Brookshire * Brown * Browning * Bruton * Burch * Butler * Buttrum * Byers * Caffee * Cape * Carlson * Carmani * Carter * Cass * Chaffee * Chaille * Charlson * Chitwood * Clark * Clary * Cline * Cobb * Cone * Conklin * Cooley * Cox * Coyle * Coyne * Craig * Crain * Crampton * Crosby * Crossman * Curtic * Dale * Davis * De Graff * Dick * Dietrich * Dilworth * Ditmore * Donehoo * Downing * Downs * Dreisbach * Dwyer * Earles * Elliott * Elting * Emry * Evans * Everitt * Fairfield * Fisher * Fithian * Flanigan * Folger * Fountain * Frankenberger * Freeman * Friend * Fugitt * Fullmer * Gaddis * Garey * Garner * Gilbert * Gillfillan * Gleason * Gobar * Gooding * Gray * Green * Greenlee * Grieb * Grundler * Guinn * Hacker * Haines * Hall * Halliburton * Harden * Hardy * Harrington * Hart * Hatcher * Haven * Heck * Henderson * Hendrickson * Hennessy * Henry * Herron * Hess * Hickman * Hill * Hood * Hopkins * Hornback * Hough * Howard * Hudson * Huff * Irelan * Irwin * Isherwood * James * Jameson * Janes * Jarrett * Johnson * Joiner * Jones * Juergens * Kline * Koontz * Kyle * La Force * Lamkin * Leckie * Leddy * Lippitt * Livingston * Lochrie * Long * Lucas * Malang * Mallett * Maness * Margrave * Mays * McAdams * McAntire * McCann * McDaniel * McDowell * McGee * McGowan * McGregor * McKee * McMichael * McNeill * McWilliams * Meese * Merrill * Miles * Miller * Mills * Mink * Mitchell * Moffet * Monk * Monroe * Moon * Mooneyham * Moore * Moyer * Murphy * Myers * Nall * Nichols * Nielson * Nilson * Norsworthy * Oliver * O?Neill * Onstott * Osborn * Owen * Palmer * Patrick * Pearson * Perdue * Phelps * Pickerell * Poncot * Pool * Poundstone * Pratt * Price * Purcell * Qualls * Rackerby * Rader * Ramsey * Reece * Reed * Reel * Rees * Rice * Richardson * Rinehart * Riseling * Roach * Robbins * Robertson * Robinson * Roper * Ross * Routzong * Rusk * Sailor * Sansom * Sayre * Schoolcraft * Schooler * Senter * Sergeant * Sewall * Shafer * Shaffer * Shaw * Shippen * Sholl * Shouse * Skinner * Smith * Snodgress * Spencer * Springs * Spracklen * Staples * Stebbins * Stemmons * Stewart * St. John * Stone * Stuckey * Swanson * Taggart * Tangner * Taylor * Thompson * Thornton * Tilley * Trigg * Troup * Tyler * Vickrey * Walker * Wampler * Warren * Waters * Watson * Watt * Webb * Weeks * Wheaton * Wheeler * Whitworth * Widner * Wiggins * Wilcox * Wild * Williams * Willoughby * Wilson * Winter * Woodson * Workizer * Wormington * Yaryan * Young * Ytell * Zook *

Book Five on CD: The complete 1913 promotional pocket sized booklet "Joplin, Missouri: The City of Wealth, Industry and Opportunity".
This is an exact photo replica of this fascinating 52 page booklet and includes numerous photos of prominent businesses and buildings.

Jasper County is located in the Southwestern portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Newton County * Barton County * Dade County * Lawrence County * .

Each of the 5 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 Adobe Reader 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 5 books described above on one CD is only $9.95 plus shipping! A wealth of information including more than 1500 pages and including more than 1350 biographies for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Jasper County, Missouri from its first settlement to the early 1900's.