| HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY: | Page |
| Map of Cedar County | 1 |
| General Summary | 305 |
| Descriptive Geography-Indian Names-Timber | 307 |
| Geology | 308 |
| Early Settlements | 310 |
| Arrivals, 1836 & 1837 | 314 |
| Pioneer Incidents | 318 |
| Freshet, 1837 | 324 |
| Bogus Claimants, Claim Rings, Pioneer Iconoclasts | 325 |
| Government Survey, Centerville, First Store, Indian Relic | 326 |
| Society, Schools, Churches, etc. | 326 |
| A Preacher in the Wilderness | 327 |
| Teaching The Young Ideas to Shoot | 328 |
| First Singing School | 326 |
| Primitive Mill | 330 |
| Legal Jurisdiction | 333 |
| County Seat Controversy and Removal | 335 |
| Freebooters | 351 |
| The Goudy Robbery | 353 |
| The Switzer Trial | 359 |
| Christ Burns | 361 |
| Charles Clute | 362 |
| Gleason and Soper | 365 |
| HI. Roberts | 368 |
| Murder of Atwood | 369 |
| John Brown | 371 |
| Political Economy | 374 |
| Resume | 377 |
| First Tax Levy | 383 |
| First Court House | 386 |
| Bridges | 396 |
| Care of County Poor | 400 |
| County Officers, Past and Present | 401 |
| First Courts | 402 |
| District Court | 403 |
| Criminal Mention ~ includes: | 405 |
| Elizabeth Simmonds - Murder of Child | 405 |
| The Funk Wife Murder | 405 |
| The Boyle Matricide Case | 405 |
| The Ryan-Harrigon Murder | 405 |
| The Purza-Brummell Affair | 406 |
| Ingham Wife Murder | 406 |
| The Crawford Burglary | 407 |
| Circuit Court | 410 |
| Agricultural | 413 |
| Educational | 416 |
| Sabbath School Association | 417 |
| Old Settlers' Association | 418 |
| Red Oak Old Settlers' Association | 419 |
| Cedar County Old Settlers'Association | 419 |
| Cedar County Bible Society | 427 |
| Railroad Undertakings | 427 |
| Lyons Iowa Central Railroad | 431 |
| Tipton Railroad Company - Tipton and Stanwood | 433 |
| Iowa Southwestern Railroad | 435 |
| Railroad Lines Going Through Cedar County | 436 |
| Tornadoes | 437 |
Miscellaneous Stories:
A Curious Accident ~ “Sally Acker” | 439 |
| Old Clippings | 440 |
| First Post Offices | 444 |
| First Marriage | 444 |
| Subterranean Discoveries | 445 |
| A Mock Wedding And What Came Of It | 446 |
| Steamboating On Cedar River | 450 |
| Firstlings | 451 |
| Press ~ includes: | 452 |
| Tipton Times and Cedar County Conservative | 452 |
| Cedar County News | 452 |
| Cedar Count Advertiser | 454 |
| Cedar County News Letter | 455 |
| Tipton Advertiser | 455 |
| Cedar Democrat | 455 |
| Cedar County Clipper | 455 |
| Cedar County Post | 456 |
| Cedar County Advance | 456 |
| The Patrons of Husbandry | 456 |
| Cedar County Farmer | 456 |
| The Conservative | 456 |
| Our Banner | 456 |
| West Branch Index | 456 |
| West Branch Times | 456 |
| Mechanicsville Press | 456 |
| Mechanicsville Journal | 457 |
| Onion Grove Record | 457 |
| The Iowa Age | 457 |
| Clarence Gazette | 457 |
| The Independent | 457 |
| True Delta | 457 |
| Stanwood Express | 458 |
| HISTORY OF TOWNS: | |
| Tipton | 458 |
| A Destructive Fire | 463 |
| City Government & Fire Deptartment | 464 |
| Religious Interests | 468 |
| Public Schools | 475 |
| Secret Societies, Lodges, etc. | 475 |
| Co-Operative Association | 478 |
| Recent Buildings | 478 |
| Business Interests, Banking & Exchange | 479 |
| Manufacturing, Mills & Grain Elevators | 480 |
| Hotels | 482 |
| Post Office and a Private Library | 482 |
| Clarence | 487 |
| Religious Interests | 488 |
| Educational | 490 |
| Societies, etc. | 491 |
| Business Interests | 492 |
| Manufactoring Industries, etc. | 493 |
| Hotels | 494 |
| Mechanicsville | 495 |
| Schools | 496 |
| Political History | 497 |
| Church Record | 498 |
| Secular Societies | 499 |
| General, Business Houses and Professions | 499 |
| Louden | 500 |
| Early History | 503 |
| Hotels | 504 |
| Schools | 504 |
| Religious | 505 |
| Business Interests | 506 |
| Stanwood | 507 |
| West Branch | 508 |
| Business Interests | 509 |
| Schools | 510 |
| Religious | 510 |
| Societies | 511 |
| Downey | 511 |
| Business Interests & Schools | 513 |
| Religious | 513 |
| Springdale | 514 |
| Schools | 516 |
| Religious | 517 |
| Insurance | 517 |
| Drowning | 518 |
| Centerdale | 521 |
| Durant | 521 |
| Schools | 524 |
| Religious | 524 |
| Miscellaneous | 525 |
| Newspapers | 525 |
| Rochester | 526 |
| Cedar Bluff | 532 |
| Pedee and Iowa Township | 535 |
| The Courts | 538 |
| Religious | 542 |
| Fairvew | 542 |
| Inland | 544 |
| Massillon | 546 |
| Personal Property Statement & Tax Levy 1877 | 547 |
| Vote 1877 | 548 |
| CIVIL WAR HISTORY | 549 |
| Fifth Infantry | 557 |
| Eleventh Infantry | 558 |
| Sixteenth Infantry | 560 |
| Twenty-Fourth Infantry | 561 |
| Thirty-First Infantry | 563 |
| Thirty-Fifth Infantry | 564 |
| Forty-sixth Infantry | 566 |
| Miscellaneous Infantry | 567 |
| Fifth and Seventh Cavalry | 568 |
| Eighth and Nineth Cavalry | 569 |
| Miscellaneous Cavalry | 570 |
| Soldiers' Monument | 570 |
| BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF ITS CITIZENS | 577 |
