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 Moniteau
County, Missouri
History and Genealogy
More than 210 pages of Moniteau County, Missouri history
and genealogy including 123 pages of family biographies plus 17 Moniteau County,
Missouri communities on 6 different maps
An informative and historical overview of Moniteau
County, Missouri including three separate books on one CD which include 5
historical maps (1851, 1902, 1904, 1920's and 1929),
plus the full Moniteau County
section from the book: Goodspeed's History of Moniteau County, Missouri
originally published in 1889. An important resource for the study and research
of Moniteau County, Missouri history 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 Moniteau County, Missouri
Included here are the Central Ozarks region of Missouri sections of 5 different
historical maps:
A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Moniteau County just six years after
Moniteau County was formed.
B. A map of 1902 Moniteau County showing the locations of 10 different
settlements including all of the following: * Bacon * California * Clarksburg *
Enon * Highpoint * Jamestown * Kliever * Latham * McGirk * Tipton *
C. A map of 1904 Moniteau County showing the locations of 17 different
settlements including all of the following: * Bacon * California * Cedron *
Clarksburg * Corticelli * Enon * Fortuna * Highpoint * Hirdler * Jamestown *
Kliever * Latham * Lupus * McGirk * Renfro * Sandyhook * Tipton *
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 on CD: Moniteau County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are five pages concerning Moniteau 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!
Book Three on CD: The complete 1889 Goodspeed's History of
Moniteau County, Missouri.
This massive (212 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information
about Moniteau County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an
exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Moniteau County, Missouri
including all of the historical and biographical information.
Here is just some of the information included:
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A description of the natural features of Moniteau County
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Pioneer History of Moniteau County, Missouri
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Establishment of Moniteau County
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Early Settlers in Moniteau County, Missouri
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Early Land Entries in Moniteau County, Missouri
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Moniteau County Circuit Court Transactions
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Moniteau County Political Record
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Moniteau County Societies and Organizations
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Military Affairs (Civil War history) Movements of Union and Confederate
forces including battles and skirmishes in Moniteau County
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Moniteau County Schools
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Churches and related organizations in Moniteau County
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History of Moniteau County Cities and Towns including: * California * Clarksburg * High
Point * Jamestown * Latham * Magnolia * McGirk * Mount Vernon * Prairie Home *
Sandy Hook * Tipton *
Included is a 123 page Moniteau County biographical section with biographies for each of the
following surnames:
* Adams * Adkins * Alexander * Allee * Andres * Apperson * Bailey * Baker *
Bayne * Bishop * Blanck * Bloch * Bodamar * Box * Bramel * Brent * Bruce *
Buente * Burgi * Burke * Burkhardt * Cassil * Christian * Clark * Cofer *
Coleman * Conrad * Cook * Cooper * Copp * Crum * Culler * Dearing * Deatherage *
Dinwiddie * Donley * Dunham * Dunlap * Eberhardt * Ehrhardt * Ely * Farris *
Felger * Ferguson * Finke * Fischer * Fulks * Gabriel * Garretson * Gatchet *
Geiser * Gentzsch * George * Gold * Graham * Greiner * Gulich * Hainen *
Haldeman * Hardenbergh * Hempel * Herfurth * Herrnleben * Heyssel * Hickcox *
Hickman * Hoberecht * Hooper * Houser * Howard * Hudson * Hunter * Imhoff *
Inglish * Jahn * Jobe * Johnson * Jones * Kelly * Kenney * Klatt * Kloeckner *
Knierim * Kolb * Klueber * Lander * Latham * Light * Longan * McDowell *
McFadden * McPherson * McVean * Markwarth * Marsh * Marshall * Maupin * Mengel *
Meyers * Miller * Moles * Monroe * Moser * Muri * Mutti * Niederjohn * Niuffer *
Norfleet * Oglesby * Ott * Payn * Pearson * Pennington * Pettigrew * Phifer *
Piser * Potter * Reavis * Redford * Reider * Robertson * Roesch * Rohrbach *
Rosemiller * Roth * Russell * Sarman * Seyffert * Smith * Snow * Sperber *
Spieler * Springer * Stanway * Stephens * Stewart * Stinson * Strother * Sturgis
* Taylor * Thomas * Thorpe * Tising * Tooley * Treiber * Vivion * Wells *
Williams * Winebrenner * Wolfe * Wood * Yarnell * Ziebold *
In addition to those listed above, hundreds upon hundreds of other family
surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.
Moniteau County is located in the Central portion of the Missouri Ozarks and
is surrounded by the following counties: Cooper County,
Missouri * Boone County, Missouri *
Cole
County, Missouri * Miller County, Missouri * and
Morgan County, Missouri (click on highlighted county
names for a complete description)
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