Chapter I
Prefatory; Origin of County Name; Topography; Geology;
Artesian Wells.
Chapter II
Botany, Zoology and Entomology; Climate; Storms and
Tornadoes; Agriculture, Live Stock and Manufacturing
Interests; Tables of Statistics.
Chapter III
General History; the Aborigines; Archaeology; Advent of
the Whites; Early Settlements; County Organization; first
County Officers; Taxable Property in 1859; Sketch of
Father Lowerey; Indian Missions; The Painted Rock; County
Seat Elections; Sodom and Gomorrah.
Chapter IV
First Entries of Government Lands; First Importation of
Lumber; First Grist Mill; First Post office; Interesting
Reminiscences; First Official Seal; First Terms of Court
and List of Grand Jurors; First Party Organization;
Systems of County Management; List of County Officers;
State Senatorship and Representatives from Date of
Organization to Present Time; the Circuit Court.
Chapter V
Earliest County Record; First Marriage Record; First
Records of County Court; First County Warrants; First
Statement of Treasurer and Collector's Accounts;
Miscellaneous Orders and Warrants; Court House Contracts;
Ferry Licenses; Township Organizations; History of Paint
Creek Township
Chapter VI
The Villages of Allamakee County; Lybrand, Lansing,
Winfield, Waukon, Columbus, Hardin, Smithfield,
Postville, Milton, Village Creek, Ion, Rossville, Volney,
Cleveland, Johnsonsport, Allamakee, Nezekaw, Chantry,
Alton, Buckland, Manchester, New Albin, Myron,
Dorchester, Lafayette, Paint Rock, Waterville, New
Galena, Wexford, Union City
Chapter VII
History of Post Township; Location; Early Settlements;
Villages; War Record, Miscellaneous Incidents and
Reminiscences.
Chapter VIII
Criminal Episodes; The Gorman Robbery;
"Borrowing" Horses; Assassination of
Cunningham; Murder of Barney Leavy; The Minert Murder;
"Shoving the Queer"; An Uncle Murders His
Nephew; a Postville Burglary; Fatal Stabbing Affray; A
Defaulting Postmaster; Shooting of Matt. Beuscher; Other
Fatal Affrays, Burglaries, Assaults, etc.
Chapter IX
County Seat Contests; Selecting the "Old
Stake"; The First Election; Second Election;
Columbus Carries the Day; Lansing vs. Columbus; a
Commission Selects Waukon; Commissioners' Decision
Ratified at the Polls; Other Rival Claimants; Waukon
Again Ahead; Lansing Once More in the Fight; Waukon Wins;
Another Election, and Re-location of County Seat, this
Time at "The Point"; A New Election, and an
Appeal to the Courts; Waukon Finally Wins a Conclusive
Victory; Interesting and Exciting Episodes
Chapter X
County Buildings; Educational; County School Statistics;
Normal Institutes; Religious Organizations; Gospel
Pioneers; Statistics of Population, etc.; Assessed
Valuations; Political Statistics.
Chapter XI
War Record; Allamakee County Volunteers; Fifth, Twelfth
and Twenty-Seventh Infantry; First, Sixth and Ninth
Cavalry; Outline of Operations; Volunteer Roster of
Allamakee County.
Chapter XII
Chronology: List of the More Important Events in the
History
of Allamakee County, in the Order of their Occurrence
Addendum - Waukon
History of Waukon: Advent of Geo. C. Shattuck; Other
Early Settlers; Beginning and Growth of the Embryo County
Seat; Interesting Early Details; The First Court House;
Additions to the Town Plat; Population; Origin of the
Name "Waukon;" Religious and Educational
Organizations; The Post office; The Local Press; Business
Institutions; Railroad History; Orders and Societies;
Military Company; Fires, Etc.
Addendum - Lansing
History of Lansing: Early Settlement; Resources and
Commercial Facilities; Railroad Festivities; Population;
City Government; Fire Department; Water Supply; Death of
Capt. Hemenway; The Local Press; Churches and Societies;
Original Town Proprietors; "Wild Jim."
Biographical
285 biographies of Allamakee residents
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