Howard County Iowa History & Records

Alumni Directory

List of Alumni of ex-students of various of schools in Iowa.

Student Directory of the Iowa State Teachers College (Cedar Falls) for Summer 1931.

Archives

Howard County Iowa Archives is a digital library of the USGenWeb Archives Projects. The documents listed below are available. The highlighted documents are available on this website.

1. Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lime Springs A-Z
2. WPA Cemetery records for Albion, Calvary, Cedar, Cresco, Foreston, Holy Trinity, Howard Center Twp., and New Oregon Cemeteries.
3. 1856 State Census of Jamestown and Howard Twp.
4. Howard County History - 1903
5. History of Davis Corners
6. History of Howard County from the 1875 Andreas Atlas
7. Patron's Directory from the 1875 Andreas Atlas
8. Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post Offices
9. American Legion Posts 1919-1929
10. Church History from "The Pilgrims of Iowa", 1911
11. Inventions & Patents from 1862 to 1930
12. Pilgrim Pastors from "The Pilgrims of Iowa", 1911
13. Mills of Howard County
14. Blizzard of 1873
15. World War II Honor List
16. 1886 listing of Civil War Veterans
17. World War I Physicians

Biographies

Biographies from the History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa 1919, Volume Two, by Robert Herd Fairbairn. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1919.

Biographical Sketches from the History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa, by W. E. Alexander. Western Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa, 1883.

This is a list of Howard County residents who had a biography written in a book other than the one listed above.

Businesses

Howard County was listed in the Iowa Century Business has more than 180 Iowa businesses were honored by the Iowa Department of Economic Development in December 9, 2002. The companies were founded in or before 1902 and have continued in operation since that time.

Cemeteries

Visit our cemeteries section and see what is available to our researchers.

The Political Graveyard is a website about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Here you will find a few politicians who had been born or lived in Howard County.

This is a list of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Grave Registration for all Howard County cemeteries at the time of the project c. 1935 - 1943. If you want an exact copy of a particular page you may contact Mike Peterson who will provide an actual WPA page image.

History

History of Howard County from the History of Chickasaw & Howard Counties, Iowa, by W. E. Alexander. Western Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa, 1883.

History of Iowa from the History of Chickasaw & Howard Counties, Iowa, by W. E. Alexander. Western Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa, 1883.

History of Chickasaw County from the History of Chickasaw & Howard Counties, Iowa, by W. E. Alexander. Western Publishing Company, Decorah, Iowa, 1883.

History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa 1919, Volume One, by Robert Herd Fairbairn. Illustrated -- The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago -- 1919.

National Register of Historical Places is an official listing of the cultural resources in Howard County that worthy of preservation, authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

Offsite website that shows the Growth of Iowa Counties.

Military

A list of National Guards of Howard County during a 1904 publication of Iowa Official Register, transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall.

U.S. Military Personnel of Howard County who died from hostile action (including missing and captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957.

Vietnam Honor List of Dead and Missing Personal from Howard County, Iowa.

Photos

This is a list of photos of Howard County and those who lived in this county.

Other Organizations

The Royal Arch Masons of Howard County is listed in this section.

Professionals

Medical and Surgical directory of Iowa 1883-84. Here is a listing of those in Howard County, Iowa.

This is a page of those who were a part of the Presidential Elector.

Here you can view any of the Howard County Officials from 1894 - 1922. This was provided by Roseanna Zehner

Surnames

Checkout the Surname Index to see what Howard County surnames are being researched and you can add your own surnames to the list.

Townships

See the list of Howard County past, present and abandoned towns, villages, and post offices.

The map below shows Howard County as published in the 1875 A. T. (Alfred Theodore) Andreas' Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa. To view one of the individual Townships click on the appropriate listing below the map. For a brief history of the 1875 Illustrated Atlas and its' author refer to the Historical Introduction of the 1970 reprint of the Atlas. (all materials contributed by Paul Vasold in 2004)

1. Afton
2. Albion
3. Chester
4. Forest City
5. Howard
6. Howard Center
7. Jamestown
8. New Oregon
9. Oak Dale
10. Paris
11. Saratoga
12. Vernon Springs
13. The city of Cresco

Howard County Townships (If you have access to any township histories, contact the .):

Newspaper Records

For many years there were two newspapers being published, The Times and the Plain Dealer. The Times represented the Republican Party and it's political views while the Plain Dealer represented the Democratic point of view. If you do not find what you are looking for in one newspaper, there is a possibility that it will be in the other newspaper.

The following are marriage and death indexes to the Plain Dealer newspaper for the years shown. In viewing the indexes remember that the date of reference is that of the paper, not of the occurrence of the marriage or the death.

1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874

If you are interested in having a copy of the actual article in the newspaper, you would need to visit the Cresco Public Library, which has the microfilm for the newspapers or you can contact the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society and request a copy. Go to the Resources section to contact the Genealogy Society.

Obituaries from Online Cresco Times of today.