Download or read book The History of Mahaska County Iowa 1984 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Emancipation s Diaspora written by Leslie Ann Schwalm and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping readers understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom, this book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.
Download or read book The Hook Eye written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the colorful history of the Iowa Central Railway and its valuable contributions to the development of the upper Midwest, chronicling the origins, growth, and eventual dismantling of the railroad and assessing its relationship with its customers, its influence on the state's agricultural and industrial commerce, and more.
Download or read book Iowa History and Culture written by and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1989 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough bibliography with some annotations when the title does not describe the material. Arrangement is in 25 alphabetically sequenced subject categories. Four classes of material are excluded: genealogies, newspaper articles, manuscripts, audio-visual materials. Indexed by personal name and sub
Download or read book The Tootin Louie written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of one of the Midwest's most remarkable railroads.
Download or read book From Ackley to Zwingle written by Harold E. Dilts and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The towns of Iowa have been named for railroad magnates and saloon owners, poets and politicians, bulls and dogs, rivers and trees--and almost anything else that someone could dream up. This fascinating collection gives an account of the colorful, often humorous, and sometimes bizarre origins of over 1,200 Iowa place names.
Download or read book Some Hauenstein Howenstine Howenstein Families from Germany and Switzerland and Descendants written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hauenstein/Howenstine/Howenstein families of Switzerland and Germany and later in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere. One early ancestor was Andrew Hauenstein (1779-1838), son of Hans Jacob Hauenstein, who was born in Unterendingen, Aargau, Switzerland. He died in Baugo Twp., Elkhart, Indiana. He emigrated from Switzer- land in 1831 and settled in Wayne County, Ohio. He was married to Barbary Hauenstein (1788-1838), daughter of Johannes Hauenstein and Anna Maria Werder, in 1810 in Unterendingen, Aargau, Switzerland.
Download or read book The Wetsmans written by Phillip Applebaum and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Jarnagin Family in Iowa 1856 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Jarnagin (1748-1816) was probably born in Virginia and married Mary Smith. They became the parents of nine children and eventually settled in Ohio. Later generations settled in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and a large number in Iowa. Descendants presently live in Iowa, California and other parts of the United States.
Download or read book Phase I Cultural Resource Investigation of the Burlington to Des Moines Highway Corridor Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Who s who in the Midwest written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generation four written by Joseph Mack Ralls and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeological Guide to Iowa written by William E. Whittaker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on 68 important archaeological sites in Iowa, including sites of every type, from every time period, and in every part of the state.
Download or read book Homes in the Heartland written by Fred W. Peterson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992.
