LYON COUNTY GENEALOGY

 

 

Compendium of History Reminiscence
& Biography of Lyon County

"Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa". Published under the auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

 

• Chapter I
  • Introduction
  • Topography and Geology
  • Prairie Hay for Fuel
  • Elk and Deer
  • Valuable Resources
  • Prices of Land
  • Fruit Growing
  • Great Farms Opened
  • Railroads
  • Rock Rapids Tow Mills
  • Public Telephones
  • Rural Free Delivery
• Chapter 2
• Early Settlement
• Town Plats
• Business Commencements
• First Events
• George Monlux's Recollections of Early Days
• Chapter 3
  • Organization of the County
  • Townships of the County
  • County Seat and Court House
  • Poor Farm
  • County Jail
  • List of County Officials

• Chapter 4
• Incorporated Villages
• The County Fair
• Medical Profession
• Newspapers of the County
• Population
• Marriage Record
• Public Schools
• Political Standing
• Pioneers' Association
• Grand Army of the Republic
• Roster of Dunlap Post, May 28, 1904
• Woman's Relief Corps--Rock Rapids
• Company D, Iowa National Guard
• The Masonic Order--Rock Rapids
• Independent order of Odd Fellows
• Encampment
• The Rebekah Degree
• Knights of Pythias
• Brotherhood of American Yeomen
• The Modern Woodmen of America
• The Royal Neighbors
• Dentistry
• Chapter 5
  
• Lyon County Schools
• Chapter 6

  The Bench and The Bar of Lyon County

• Chapter 7
  

  The Debt and Litigation Concerning that of the County and School districts

• Chapter--8
  
  • Items of Church History in Lyon County

• Chapter 9
  • To the Historian
  • Lyon County National Bank -- First National Bank, Rock Rapids
  • Savings Bank of Larchwood
  • The Little Rock Bank
  • Farmers' Bank of Inwood
  • First National Bank of Doon
  • The Farmers' Savings Bank of George
  • Bank of Lester, Iowa
  • Alvord Bank
  • George Savings Bank
  • The Iowa Savings Bank
  • Peoples Savings Bank, Inwood
  • Security Savings Bank of Little Rock
    

• Chapter 10
  • Pioneer Hospitality
  • Early Mail Service
  • The Grasshopper Plague
  • Great Fires
  • Blizzard and Flood Period
  • Caught in a Blizzard
  • Destructive Hail Storm
  • An Early Day Law Suit
  • The Northeast Part of Lyon County
  • Early Days in Lyon County
  • The Telephone
  • The Happy Old Settler
  • Reminiscence
  • Early Days
  • Amusing Incidents of Early Days
  • South West Part of Lyon County
  • Blizzards

• Chapter 11 -- Biographies
• A Surnames
• B Surnames
• C Surnames
• D Surnames
• E Surnames
• F Surnames
• G Surnames
• H Surnames
• I Surnames
• J Surnames
• K Surnames
• L Surnames
• M Surnames
• N Surnames
• O Surnames
• P Surnames
• Q Surnames
• R Surnames
• S Surnames
• T Surnames
• U Surnames
• V Surnames
• W Surnames
• Z Surnames

 

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Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner, Darlene Jacoby and Diane  Johnson

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