CHAPTER |
PAGE |
| Title page |
|
| Author's Preface |
|
| Publisher's Foreword |
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| I- Abstract of Title to Montgomery County |
1-7
8-14 |
| 2- Organization, Naming and Surveying of the County |
15 |
| 3-The Prairie, and the Rivers with their water-mills |
24 |
| 4-The Indians |
30 |
| 5-The Pioneers |
37 |
| 6-Obsolete Towns of the County |
45 |
| 7-War Time Organizations and Incidents |
56 |
| 8-Railroads |
64 |
| 9-The Underground Railroad |
72 |
| 10-John Brown |
77 |
| 11-Ben |
83 |
12-War of the Rebellion
Names - Enlistments
by company, regiment, etc. |
90
102 |
13-Three Prominent Pioneers - Alfred
Hebard* - Justus
Clark* - R. M.
G. Patterson
*indicates image |
108 |
| 14-Jason B. Packard* |
115 |
| 15-Early Life in "The Forks." |
122 |
| 16-Noted Murder Trials of the County |
137 |
| 17-Common Schools of the County |
147 |
| 18-County Court Houses, Past and Present |
153 |
| 19-Memorial Services of Lincoln, Garfield, Grant and McKinley |
161 |
| 20-Some Early Experiences |
167 |
| 21-A Chapter of Early Incidents—Grave and Gay |
176 |
| 22-Another Chapter of Early Incidents. |
185 |
| 23-The Medical Fraternity in the County |
195 |
24-The Montgomery County Bar
J. M. Junkin*
- 207 | R. W. Beeson*
- 204 | Horace E.
Deemer* - 208 | Smith
McPherson* - 210
*indicates images |
203 |
| 25-Agriculture and Horticulture |
214 |
| 26-The County Fair |
220 |
| 27-The Spanish American War - Sketch of Company
M, Preparing War, In Camp at San Francisco, Across the Pacific,
Guard Duty |
228 |
27cont. -Campaigning in the Tropics, Homeward
Bound, Deaths in the Camps: John E. Ritter, Lucian Ernest
Rogers, Verni R. Hysham, Ellery E. Mills, Early J. McCament
Darwin R. Merrit* 246 |
237 |
| 28 - Religious Organizatons in the County |
251 |
29-A Chapter of Miscellanies:
Founding
of the First Newspaper; The Old Settlers' Organization; President
McKinley's Visit to Red Oak; Some Long Lived People of the
County; General Grant's Visit to Red Oak; Deer in the Early
Days; Worth of Note; Ruling Prices Forty-Nine Years Ago. |
263 |
| 30- History of Red Oak |
277
289
298 |
| 31-Other Towns of the County - Villisca,
Elliott, Stanton, Wales, Milford |
310 |
CHRONOLOGY |
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Appendix A -
Appendix A cont. |
321
330
|
| Appendix B - Roster of Company M and B - Spanish American
War |
341 |
| Appendix C - Montgomery County Senators and Representatives |
344 |
