Historical || Illustrations || Biographical ||
CONTENTS |
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GENERAL HISTORY |
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Chapter
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Page |
| I. The Aboriginal Inhabitants - 12 The Indians - 14 || Iowas - 14 || Winnebagoes - 15 || Pottawatomies -17 || Sioux - 18 || Sacs and Foxes - 19 || |
12-23 |
| II. Physical Features-Geography-A Bird's Eye
View-Principal Streams | Fluvial Nomenclature |
Their Frequent Variations | Railroads,
Villages and Townships | The Land Surveys |
23-42 |
| III. Historical Address | pages 42-45 | 46-47 | 42 |
| IV. Settlement and Population | 48 |
| V. Early Mails and Means of Commuication | 50 |
| VI. Early Commerce | 53 |
| VII. Hunting, Trapping and Fishing | 56 |
| VIII. Erection and Organization of Buchanan County | 61 |
| IX. The County Seat War | 63 |
| X. The Court and the Bar of Buchanan County - Biographical Sketches of Lawyers | 64-68 68-71 |
| XI. Interesting Cases | 71 |
| XIa. County Societies | 80 |
| XII. Railroads | 93 |
| XIII. Provision for the Poor | 98 |
| XIV. The Hospital for the Insane | 99 |
| XV. Buchanan County in the War of the Rebellion | 103 |
| XVI. Buchanan County Schools | 210 |
| XVII. Civil List of Buchanan County | 213 |
| XIX. The Buchanan Press | 218 |
| XX. General Biography | 219 |
TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES |
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| Independence | 230 |
| Washington | 281 |
| Liberty | 295 |
| Perry | 311 |
| Fairbank | 332 |
| Hazleton | 337 |
| Buffalo | 352 |
| Madison | 362 |
| Byron | 369 |
| Fremont | 377 |
| Westburgh | 384 |
| Sumner | 389 |
| Jefferson | 404 |
| Homer | 413 |
| Cono | 423 |
| Newton | 430 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Insane Asylum | facing Title page |
| Map of Buchanan County | facing 9 |
| Residence of Z. Stout | facing 230 |
| Portrait of Thomas Scarcliff | facing 271 |
| " " Moses Little | facing 314 |
| Portrait of Charles Melrose | facing 320 |
| " " Prettyman King | facing 341 |
| Portraits of John and Ann McCay | facing 432 |
| Residence (with portraits) of John B. Potter | facing 437 |
BIOGRAPHICAL
| Barhart, A. J. | 279 |
| Barton, William H. | 223 |
| Bemis, Hon. George W. | 224 |
| Blood, Asa, jr. | 220 |
| Boggs, Rev. John M. | 219 |
| Boon, J. R. | 278 |
| Brown, Mrs. Mary E. | 268 |
| Cates, Valentine | 272 |
| Chamberlain, W. H. | 270 |
| Clark, O. B. | 276 |
| Clark, S. S. | 275 |
| Cobb, E. | 271 |
| Coy, Captain J. F. | 266 |
| Curtis, Simon F. | 219 |
| Curtis, Thomas F. | 275 |
| Deering, David S. | 267 |
| Durham, Charles M. | 267 |
| Ensminger Brothers | 271 |
| Few, William | 272 |
| Forrester, James | 273 |
| Frank, A. H. | 279 |
| Herrick, C. F. | 272 |
| Hitchcock, M. S. | 266 |
| Holloway, Hon. John C. | 269 |
| Jones, William A. | 225 |
| Jordan, Lieutenant George C. | 226 |
| Kandy, C. B. | 280 |
| King, Prettyman | 341 |
| Little, Captain E. C. | 226 |
| Little, John A. | 274 |
| Little, Moses | 314 |
| Luckey, Samuel C. | 273 |
| Morse, W. H. H. | 276 |
| McCoristin, P. | facing 432 |
| Melrose, Charles | facing 320 |
| Myers, August | 277 |
| Naylor, Samuel | 272 |
| Patrick, C. L. | 278 |
| Poor, James A. | 268 |
| Potter, John B. | 437 |
| Ross, Edward | 266 |
| Scarcliff, Thomas | 280 |
| Sherwood, Samuel | 277 |
| Stewart, W. H. & Co. | 275 |
| Stout, Z. | following 272 |
| Tabor, S. J. W. | 223 |
| Trask, A. H. | 278 |
| Travis, Judson J. | 269 |
| Turner, Hon. Thomas E. | 219 |
| Wallace, C. R. | 274 |
| Walker, Daniel | 277 |
| Warren, G. K. | 276 |
| Wilcox, Phineas C. | 222 |
| Wiley, John | 274 |
| Wackerbarth, Jacob | 280 |
| Woodruff, Lieutenant E. A. | 228 |
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