Biographies
Most of our biographies have been entered onto the Clinton County Message Board to make searching through them easy and you can post any additional info you may have.
Biographies can provide useful genealogical information along with wonderful details to add to your family history. Keep in mind that many of the books mentioned here are available through an LDS Family History Center and possibly via inter-library loan.
If you have copies of biographies from books or anything and would like to send them to me, I'd be glad to put them online.
MISC BIOGRAPHIES
- "Aunt Liz" - Elizabeth Fairfax
- Florence Marske Zimmerman
- Goddard Family
- William Harlock
- Walter I. Wolfe
- George A. Smith and Son
- 1931 Narrative History of The People of Iowa
- 1940 Who's Who in Iowa
- George Claussen
- Maurice Donegan
- James Kindig
- The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men. Iowa Volume.
- Biographies from "The Blue Book of Iowa Women"
- The Courts and Legal Profession of Iowa
FROM OTHER SITES
- Forret/ Hahn family
- Pvt. William B. Mayes received Medal of Honor, listing on Iowa Civil War Monuments
Other Sources
An index to over 44,000 early pioneers named in 120 Iowa county histories is:
Morford, Charles. Biographical Index to the County Histories of Iowa. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1979. (FHL book 977.7 D32m; computer number 14288.)
A similar index with about 8,000 names is:
Foresman, Sherry. Iowa Biography Index. Menlo, Iowa: State of Iowa Lending and Research Library, 1986. (FHL book 977.7 D22i; fiche 6125666; computer number 465444.)
The State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines and the Family History Library have three important biography collections about Iowa residents:
Citizens Historical Association (Indianapolis, IN). Biographical Sketches of Iowans. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976. (FHL films 985407-409; computer number 313104.) These sketches are alphabetical and were compiled between 1938 and the 1940's.
Iowa. State Department of History and Archives. Biographical Data Collection. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978. (FHL films 1023885-89 and 1023620; computer number 190897.) This collection consists of alphabetical personal-history surveys.
Iowa. State Department of History and Archives. Biography Files. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978. (FHL films 1023616 item 2 and 1023617-19; computer number 190898.) These files are alphabetized folders of newspaper clippings and correspondence.
Two representative biographical encyclopedias are:
A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa, 2 vols. Reprint of 1896 edition, Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1978. (FHL book 977.7 D3m; film 1033791 items 2-3; fiche 6051365; computer number 71632; also film 934926 item 6; computer number 279337.)
Gue, Benjamin F. and Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh. Biographies and Portaits of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders in Business, Politics and the Professions, Together with an Original and Authentic History of the State. 2 vols. Des Moines: Conaway and Shaw, 1899. (FHL book 977.7 D3b; film 934927 items 2-3; fiche 6051353; computer number 241525.) This book is also available at the Clinton Public Library.
The following gazetteer contains biographical information:
Hair, James T., Iowa State Gazetteer. Chicago: Bailey & Hair, 1865. (FHL book 977.7 E4h; film 1024846)