An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa

by Frank Hickenlooper, Albia, Iowa 1896

  • Illustrations from book
  • TitlePage
  • Acknowledgment
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Speculation
  • Chapter 3. Organization
  • Chapter 4. Early Political Methods
  • Chapter 5. Miscellaneous Topics
  • Chapter 6. In Defense of the Flag
  • Second Iowa Infantry
  • Sixth Iowa Infantry
  • Seventh Infantry, Eighth Infantry
  • Thirteenth Infantry, Fifteeenth Infantry
  • Seventeenth Infantry, Eighteenth Infantry
  • Twenty-second Infantry
  • Thirty-Sixth Infantry
  • Thirty-seventh Infantry
  • Forty-sixth Infantry
  • Forty-eighth Infantry, First Cavalry
  • Second Cavalry
  • Third Cavalry, Fourth Cavalry, Seventh Cavalry, Third Battery, The Draft
  • Military Organizations
  • List of Soldiers Residing in Monroe County Who Enlisted from Other Localities
  • The Soldier Dead in Oak View Cemetery, Albia, Iowa
  • History of the First Iowa Cavalry
  • History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry
  • Mission Ridge
  • History of the Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry
  • Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863
  • Capture of Little Rock
  • Camden Expedition
  • History of the Twenty-second Iowa Infantry
  • Chapter 7. Railroads
  • Chapter 8. The Press
  • Chapter 9. County Government
  • Sheriffs
  • Probate Judges
  • Clerks of the District Court, Circuit Judge, County Auditor, Treasurer, Recorder
  • School Superintendent
  • County Attorney, Coroner, Monroe County in the General Assembly, Monroe County Agricultural Society
  • The Albia Post-Office
  • Chapter 10. Banks and Bank Failures
  • Chapter 11. Judge Lynch and Criminal Matters
  • Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Topics
  • Strikes, "The Deep Snow"
  • Nationality
  • Methods of Farming
  • Roads and Road-Working
  • Fashions, Dress, and Love-Making
  • The "Hairy Nation"
  • Chapter 13. Early Joys and Sorrows
  • The Charivari
  • An Interesting Find, Bee-Hunting
  • The Log Cabin
  • The "Hoedown", Camp-Meetins and Water-Melons
  • Embryo Villages
  • The "Water-Witch"
  • Schools and School-Teachers
  • Soap Creek Jurisprudence
  • Some Pioneer Episodes
  • Pioneer Fogyism
  • They Killed the Family Pig
  • Chapter 14. The County Jail and County Finances
  • Chapter 15. The Methodist Episcopal Church
  • The Presbyterian Church
  • "Report of Judicial Committee"
  • The Associate Presbyterians ("Seceders")
  • The Covenanters
  • The United Presbyterians
  • Historical Sketch of Service United Presbyterian Congregation
  • The Cumberland Presbyterians, The Christian Church
  • The United Brethren Church
  • The Dunkers (German Baptists)
  • The Baptist Church
  • The African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Grace Episcopal Church, The Roman Catholics
  • The Society of Friends
  • The Monroe County Holiness Association
  • Chapter 16. Average Crop Yield of Monroe County for 1895, and Other Statistical Items
  • Bee Culture
  • Political
  • Manufacturing
  • Chapter 17. Towns and Villages
  • Avery
  • Hynes City
  • Foster
  • Blakesburg
  • Hilton
  • Stacyville, Frederic
  • Hiteman
  • Chapter 18. Some Battles with the "Hairy Nation"
  • How a Sixth Iowa Cavalry Boy Got His Whiskey
  • The Oldest Citizen Born on Iowa Soil
  • Yankee Pumpkins as Parlor Sets
  • Old Documents
  • Some Early Milling Exploits
  • Chapter 19. Educational
  • Chapter 20. The Mining Industry
  • Chapter 21. Railway Casualties
  • Chapter 22. The Independent Club Guards
  • Masonic, Knights of Pythias, The I. O. O. F.
  • The A. O. U. W., Modern Woodmen of America, Woodmen of the World
  • The Rebecca Degree, I. O. O. F., Woodmen Circle, Grand Army of the Republic, The P. E. O. Sisterhood
  • Chapter 23. Horse-Breeding
  • Chapter 24. The 1896 Canvass
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