Clinton County Bibliography 


I would love for this bibliography to be as complete as possible for Clinton County. If you have any information on books or articles about Clinton County, please let me know so I can list of the information here.  Send me  the name of the book, the name of the author, the year it was published, the city and state where it was published and the publisher's name.

I want to add sections for each town and/or township in the county. Many of these we have information online for.

Clinton County

Allen, L. P. 1879. History of Clinton County Iowa. Chicago, IL: Western Historical Company

Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated. 1901. Chicago, IL : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.

Central Community Historical Society. 2000. Combined Atlases and Plat book for Clinton County. DeWitt, IA.

Clinton County Historical Society. 1976. History of Clinton County.

Hansen, Jan & Trumpeter, Jone. 2000. Murder & Mayhem in Clinton Co., IA Before 1900.  Clinton, IA. (I believe there is a Vol. 2)

Wolfe, P. B. 1911. Wolfe's History of Clinton County Iowa. 

Youle, Estelle LeProvost. 1946. The History of Clinton County Iowa.

Chapman Bros. 1886. Portrait & Biographical Album of Clinton Co. Chicago, IL: Chapman Bros.

City of Clinton

Flippo, Kathy. 1990. Beaver Island Remembered. Clinton, IA:

Flippo, Kathy. 2000. Back to Beaver Island. Clinton, IA:

Heckert, Connie K. 1985. Lyons -- One Hundred Fifty Years North of the Big Tree. Eldridge, IA: Bawden Printing Inc.

Long, Katherine & Erickson, Melvin. 1983. CLINTON: A Pictorial History.  Rock Island IL: Quest Publishing

Clinton County Authors

While these authors might not have written about Clinton County specifically, I thought they were important to list.  The source of this list is the "List of Books by Iowa Authors." published for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. It's obviously not a complete list but this is what was in the book.

Banks, Charles Eugene. Child of the sun. Chic. Herbert Stone & Co., 1900
            Idols. (Drama.) 1904. (In press.)
            Life of DeWitt Talmage. 1902
            Quiet music. Poems. 1892. Out of print.
            Sword and cross. Poems. Chic. Rand & McNally Co. 1900.
            Theodore Roosevelt, typical American. Chic. E. R. Dumont.
            1902.
            Where brooks go softly. Poems. 1896. Out of print.
                b. Clinton Co., Iowa, 1852.
                Address: 6 Washington Place, Chicago, Ill.

Banks, Charles Eugene and Cooke, George Cram. In Hampton Roads. Chicago. Rand & McNally Co. 1899

Drouit, Robert.  An idyll of Virginia. (play)
            Captain Bob. (play)
            Doris. (play)
            Fra Diano. (play)
            Montana. (play)
            Tomorrow. (play)
            White Czar. (play)
                b Clinton, Iowa, 1870.
                Address: Players Club, NY

Gilson, Roy Rolfe. In the morning glow. N. Y. Harper Bros. 1902
            Mother and father. N. Y. Harper Bros. 1903
            When love is young. N. Y. Harper Bros. 1901
                b Clinton, Iowa
                Address: Care Harper Bros., New York

Leffingwell, William Bruce. Art of wing shooting. Chic. Rand,
            McNally.
            Manulito, or a strange friendship. Phila. Lippincott Co.
            Out of print.
            Shooting on upland marsh and stream. Chic. Rand,
            McNally. 1890
            Wild fowl shooting.  Chic. Rand, McNally. 1888
                b Clinton, Iowa
                Address: 19th & Pine Sts., St. Louis, Mo.

McKinney, Mrs. Ida Scott Taylor. Baby's journal.
            Story of Columbus told in rhyme.
            Year Book of American authors. N. Y. Raphael Tuck
            & Sons. 1894
            Year Book of English authors.  N. Y. Raphael Tuck
            & Sons. 1894
            Address: DeWitt, Iowa