Download or read book Past and Present of Buena Vista County Iowa written by C. H. Wegerslev and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Past and Present of Buena Vista County Iowa Classic Reprint written by C. H. Wegerslev and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Past and Present of Buena Vista County, Iowa In presenting the first history ever compiled of Buena Vista county the editors are conscious of many shortcomings and inaccuracies which must exist. The task has been met with hardship at every step because of the deplorable condition of the public records in the county. In reading the following pages it will be seen that in 1866 all of the records of the county, bearing in any way on the financial transactions of the board of supervisors and officials, were carried away by two absconding county officers and were never recovered. Again, in 1877 the courthouse burned and the only records saved at that time were the minute books of the Board of Supervisors. No one, who has not undertaken to trace the history of the county, can realize the disadvantage under which the historian labors when confronted by such conditions. It has been necessary to depend upon the memory of men, uncertain at best, for everything, and while we have been treated with uniform courtesy by all who have been consulted the inability of our informants to remember dates and the unreliability of their recollections must be apparent. We have had much help from the files of county papers, especially of The Storm Lake Pilot, in getting data upon which to base our fragmentary history. Judge G. S. Robinson, now of Des Moines, but formerly a prominent citizen of this county, compiled a sketch of the early history of the county which was published in 1870, and this has been of much help. James D. Adams, another early settler, published a series of papers of early history in The Alta Advertiser in 1884 and James M. Hoskins published W. S. Lee's notes in The Sioux Rapids Republican in 1891, both of which have helped us. Mr. Hoskins has also kindly verified many of the statements made in these pages and as he had an active part in county affairs for more than twenty-five years, and his memory is remarkable, we believe the dates and incidents related are correct. Our sincere thanks are due to the gentlemen named, and to many others, for their assistance in gathering the data upon which the first part of this work has been based. It is a beginning, at least, to preserve these matters in perma nent form, and it is our hope that some future historian of the county may find the time to complete the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Past and Present of Buena Vista County Iowa written by C. H. Wegerslev and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Buena Vista County History Iowa written by Writers' Program (U.S.). Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book PAST PRESENT OF BUENA VISTA written by C. H. Wegerslev and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Genealogist s Address Book 6th Edition written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Download or read book The Welsh in Iowa written by Cherilyn A Walley and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.
Download or read book Soil Survey of Buena Vista County Iowa written by James E. Seaholm and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pigs Profits and Rural Communities written by Kendall M. Thu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on swine production to illuminate the processes of agricultural industrialization as a whole and its consequences for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural US. Politicians, farmers, a veterinarian, a medical psychologist, an agricultural economist, a biological ecologist, a farm organization president, and anthropologists contribute their perspectives within the framework of Walter Goldschmidt's research on food production. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Buena Vista s Part in the World War written by Tom D. Eilers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Buena Vista's Part in the World War: One Iowa County's Record of Service and Sacrifice The compiler in this can lay no claim to authorship. The ability to write in such a task is of less importance than the having patience to seek out details, to overcome the indifference or the modesty of some, and to insure a painstaking accuracy throughout the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names written by Tom Savage and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa’s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State’s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school; church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site. If a town’s name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name’s provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information about the state’s name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns. The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle; from Iowa’s oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001. The imaginations and experiences of its citizens played a role in the naming of Iowa’s communities, as did the hopes of the huge influx of immigrants who settled the state in the 1800s. Tom Savage’s dictionary of place-names provides an appealing genealogical and historical background to today’s map of Iowa. “It is one of the beauties of Iowa that travel across the state brings a person into contact with so many wonderful names, some of which a traveler may understand immediately, but others may require a bit of investigation. Like the poet Stephen Vincent Benét, we have fallen in love with American names. They are part of our soul, be they family names, town names, or artifact names. We identify with them and are identified with them, and we cannot live without them. This book will help us learn more about them and integrate them into our beings.”—from the foreword by Loren N. Horton “Primghar, O’Brien County. Primghar was established by W. C. Green and James Roberts on November 8, 1872. The name of the town comes from the initials of the eight men who were instrumental in developing it. A short poem memorializes the men and their names: Pumphrey, the treasurer, drives the first nail; Roberts, the donor, is quick on his trail; Inman dips slyly his first letter in; McCormack adds M, which makes the full Prim; Green, thinking of groceries, gives them the G; Hayes drops them an H, without asking a fee; Albright, the joker, with his jokes all at par; Rerick brings up the rear and crowns all ‘Primghar.’ Primghar was incorporated on February 15, 1888.”
Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library and published by Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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