Cooper County, Missouri History and Genealogy

More than 580 pages of Cooper County history and genealogy including more than 375 biographies plus 29 different Cooper County communities on 5 different maps

An informative and historical overview of Cooper County, Missouri including three separate books on one CD which include 5 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1913, 1920's and 1929: these 5 maps show a total of 29 different communities); plus the full 1883 National Historical Company "History of Cooper County, Missouri" book (over 583 pages of history with over 375 different biographies). An important resource for the study and research of Cooper County, Missouri history (including the Civil War) and genealogy.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in three separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book One of three, all on one CD: Maps of Cooper County, Missouri
Included here are the west central region of Missouri sections of 5 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Cooper County just 33 years after Cooper County was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Cooper County showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: Bellair * Billingsville * Blackwater * Boonville * Bunceton * Clarks Fork * Clifton City * Dicks * Gooch Mill * Harriston * Lamine * New Lebanon * New Palestine * Otterville * Overton * Pilotgrove (Pilot Grove) * Pisgah * Pleasant Green * Prairiehome * Vermont

C. A map of 1913 Cooper County showing the locations of 27 different settlements including all of the following: Bellair * Billingsville * Blackwater * Boonville * Bunceton * Byberry * Clarks Fork * Clifton City * Corioli * Cotton * Gooch Mill * Harriston * Lakota * Lamine * Lone Elm * New Lebanon * Otterville * Overton * Pilotgrove (Pilot Grove) * Pisgah * Pleasant Green * Prairie Home * Prairie Lick * Soleville * Speed * Vermont * Woolridge *

D. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

E. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Book Two of three, all on one CD: Cooper County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Cooper County from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information concerning Cooper County in 1913!

Book Three on CD: The complete 1883 National Historical Company "History of Cooper County, Missouri".
This detailed (583 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Cooper County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Cooper County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 375 different biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

Cooper County Pioneers - Introduction
Events Following Early Settlement of Cooper County, Missouri
Introduction - First Settlements
Customs of Early Days
Organization of Cooper County - Early Courts
History of Boonville Township
History Blackwater, Clark?s Ford & Clear Creek
History of Kelly Township
History of Lamine & Moniteau Townships
History of Lebanon Township
History of Otterville Township
History of Palestine Township
History of Pilot Grove Township
History of Prairie Home Township
History of Saline Township
The Press and Public Schools in Cooper County
Political History of Cooper County
War History (The Civil War) in Cooper County, Missouri
Bench and Bar - Crime and Suicides
Railroads - Miscellaneous Facts
California Emigrants - Temperance Excitement
Samuel Cole
Ecclesiastical History of Cooper County
Official Record of the County
First Celebration of Fourth of July in the County
Conclusion - Cooper County of 1883
Biographical By Township (more than 375 biographies)

Included is a total of more than 375 Cooper County biographies including each of the following surnames (NOTE: Some surnames have multiple biographies.) :
(thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies) Adams * Akers * Alexander * Allen * Allison * Annan * Apperson * Armstrong * Arni * Barton * Bass * Bear * Bell * Bente * Bernard * Berry * Bestgen * Blank * Blythe * Boggs * Bohm * Boller * Bonar * Boulware * Bridges * Brooks * Bull * Bunce * Burger * Butler * Byler * Calvert * Campbell * Carey * Carpenter * Carville * Case * Castleman * Chamberlin * Clark * Clayton * Cole * Combs * Cook * Cordry * Cosgrove * Cramar * Cramer * Cranmer * Crawford * Creagan * Crenshaw * Crossley * Cullers * Cunningham * Daniel * Davis * Davison * Diringer * Dorflinger * Douglas * Draffin * Driskill * Durr * Eager * Edson * Edwards * Efinger * Eldridge * Elliott * Ellis * English * Eppstein * Erhardt * Eubank * Evans * Everett * Ewing * Farris * Floyd * Fluke * Franken * Fray * Freeman * Fricke * George * Gibson * Gilbreath * Gill * Gillum * Givens * Godbey * Golladay * Good * Goode * Goodwin * Gott * Greenhalge * Groves * Haller * Harlan * Harned * Harness * Harper * Harriman * Harris * Hartt * Hayden * Haynes * Heim * Helmreich * Hemenway * Hendricks * Higgerson * Hoberecht * Hoffman * Hopkins * Hornbeck * Howard * Hunt * Hupp * Hurt * Hutchison * James * Jewett * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Joyce * Judd * Kaiser * Kemper * Kennedy * Kimsey * King * Kirschman * Knaus * Kueckelhan * Lacy * Lamm * Leonard * Long * Macurdy * Maddex * Martin * Maxey * McCarty * McClanahan * McCoy * McCulloch * McCurdy * McCutchen * McFarland * McMahan * Meierhoffer * Meistrell * Menefee * Meredith * Meyer * Miles * Miller * Mills * Minter * Mitchell * Mitzel * Molan * Moore * Muntzel * Murphy * Neal * Neef * Neely * Nelson * Nixon * Nuckols * Nunn * Odneal * Oerly * Oglesby * Ormrod * Orr * Otten * Parrish * Paxton * Pealer * Pendleton * Poindexter * Potter * Potts * Priest * Pursley * Ragland * Ramsey * Rankin * Ravenel * Rawlings * Read * Reavis * Redd * Rennison * Reppley * Rice * Richardson * Risler * Roberts * Robertson * Rodgers * Roe * Roeder * Roeschel * Rogers * Ross * Rucker * Rust * Sahm * Sanger * Saunders * Schilb * Schlotzhauer * Schmidt * Schuster * Seaton * Sergeant * Shanklin * Shannon * Simmons * Simms * Simonds * Small * Smith * Sombart * Son * Spady * Speed * Spencer * Spieler * Spillers * Staples * Starke * Steele * Stephens * Stewart * Stites * Stone * Swap * Taliaferro * Tavenner * Teel * Thomas * Thompkins * Thompson * Thornton * Thruston * Tomlinson * Tompkins * Townsend * Travillion * Treiber * Trigg * Turley * Tutt * Varner * Vaughan * Wakefield * Walker * Walz * Webb * Wehmeier * Wenig * Wheeler * White * Whitlow * Williams * Wilson * Winders * Wing * Winston * Withers * Wooldridge * Wright * Wyan * Zeigel * Zimmerman * Zimmermann * Zollinger * Zumsteg *

Cooper County is located in the central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Howard County, Missouri * Boone County, Missouri * Moniteau County, Missouri * Morgan County, Missouri * Pettis County, Missouri * and Saline County, Missouri (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)

Each of the 3 books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium or equivalent computer with a CD drive. This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

The cost for this CD containing all 3 books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A large amount of history and genealogy information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Cooper County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1883.

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