September 30, 2024: Added undated photo of the
Marne Band and news article transcription of
1935 Cass County Rural School Teachers.
September 18, 2024: Added one additional burial (Troll) to
Cass Co. Veterans Buried in Iowa Veterans Cemetery (Dallas Co.).
August 12, 2024: Added transcription of a 1929 newspaper article,
They Went Out When Country Called in Ninety-Eight, which lists Cass County soldiers in the Spanish-American war.
August 9, 2024: Added transcription of a 1929 newspaper article,
Doctors Had Large Place in Local History, which provides a detailed history of early doctors in Cass County.
August 5, 2024: Added a 1915 photo postcard of the
Cass County Fair.
July 10, 2024: Added transcriptions of all remaining pages (pages 20-31) from the
1901 Scraps yearbook. Also added 2 additional years (1908-1909) to list of
Lewis High School Graduates. [
Complete Set 1906-1909 ]
July 5, 2024: Added two additional burials (Ernst, Kraus) to
Cass Co. Veterans Buried in Iowa Veterans Cemetery (Dallas Co.).
June 25, 2024: Added complete transcription of
Historical Lewis by Pauline Franklin [
Complete Set ] and added
1899 Lewis High Commencement program. Also made a few updates to the list of
Lewis High School Graduates.
June 10, 2024: Added complete transcription of the Cass Co. entries from R. L. Polk's
Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1905-1906 Volume XIII [
Complete Set]. Also added photos of two
Unknown Atlantic women, circa the 1880's, wearing an identical floral lace shawl. Could they be sisters?
June 5, 2024: Added complete transcription of
1856-1864 Marriages - D.A.R. Records (approx. 100 records). [
Complete Set ] The majority of the marriages listed by D.A.R. are included in the
1853-1881 Cass County Genealogical Society marriage listing already online, but some are not.
May 20, 2024: Added complete transcription of the
1880 Register of Births for Cass County. [
Complete Set ]
April 24, 2024: Added link to the 1915
Huebinger's Pocket Automobile Guide for Iowa, Covering Every Road in the State map of Cass County and a complete transcription of all
Cass County Towns and Advertisers. [
Complete Set ]
April 18, 2024: Added transcription of the Cass Co. entries from R. L. Polk's
Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1918-1919 Volume XIV. [
Complete Set ]
April 12, 2023: Added
2023 4-H Hall of Fame Inductees for Cass County. [
Complete Set ]
April 8, 2024: Added
General View of Marne, a circa 1909 postcard view showing a biplane flying above the depot.
April 2, 2024: Added transcriptions for Dewey, Galion and Lyman from the R. L. Polk's
Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1908-1909 Volume XIV and
1912-1913 Volume XVI, accidentally missed when these directories were initially transcribed. [
Complete Sets ]
March 27, 2024: Added
1895 Marne High School graduates, transcribed from vintage newspaper articles.
March 26, 2024: Added transcriptions of the Cass Co. entries from R. L. Polk's
Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1912-1913 Volume XVI and
1908-1909 Volume XIV.
March 14, 2024: Added one additional burial (Wilson) to
Cass Co. Veterans Buried in Iowa Veterans Cemetery (Dallas Co.).
March 7, 2024: Added transcriptions of two additional 1906
Compendium biographies,
Robert D. McGeehon and
Robert S. McGeehon. Many thanks to Chris Light for contributing!
March 3, 2024: Added 10 additional pages of advertisements (pages 74-83) from the
1901 Scraps yearbook.
March 1, 2024: Added incomplete lists of
Lewis High School graduates and
Marne High School graduates, compiled based from vintage newspaper articles and the 1980 Cass County History book. We hope to add additional graduates in the future, as time and research permit.
February 15, 2024: Added 4 additional pages from the
1901 Scraps yearbook: Preface (pg. 10), Humorous, Questions and Answers and Two Songs (pgs. 62-65). Also added 9 pages of advertisements (pgs. 1-9) and 3 photos (pgs. 11-13).
February 3, 2024: Updated Cass County
Railroad Depots, reformatting and adding additional photos contributed by Timothy Adams.
January 12, 2024: The 1877
History of Cass County by Lafe Young has been completely reformatted and some minor errors/omissions corrected.
A bound copy of the 1901 Atlantic HS
Scraps, originally owned by Mary Kringel, was recently obtained with 31 additional pages. The
1901 Scraps index has been updated to reflect the additional pages, which will be transcribed and added in the near future.
January 6, 2024: Added transcription of the
Advertisements section of the 1901
Scraps Atlantic HS yearbook, and reformatted the entire
1901 Scraps.