- "Information
Wanted"
Advertisements or notices placed by
persons looking for a relative. Several are Irish
immigrant ads placed in a Boston newspaper
- Clayton
county Soldiers' Cenotaph Association
The Cenotaph association struggled to
raise funds for a monument to honor the county's
dead Civil War soldiers, while others argued that
money was better spent to help their widows and
orphans
- Clayton
county Poor Farm & Asylum - Did your ancestor live at the County
Home? New
content added! Febrary 2026
- State
Insane & Inebriate Asylums and State Asylum
for Feeble-minded Children
These state facilities were located at
Independence, Buchanan co. & Cherokee,
Cherokee co. or Glenwood, Mills co. IA
Mental health issues were diagnosed & treated
much differently in past years; 'Odd or insane'
behaviors were poorly understood by citizens and
physicians alike. Occasionally Clayton county
residents were taken to a State facility for
treatment of behavioral or alcohol issues. Prior
to 1902, they were sent to the Independence
facility. When the Cherokee facility was opened
in 1902, some Clayton co. residents were placed
there as well. On occasion when a child couldn't
be cared for at home due to various issues they
were placed in the institution for Feeble-minded
Children located at Glenwood, Mills co. IA
- Lenth
Hospital, Elkader
Was your ancestor treated at the Lenth Hospital?
... born there? ... worked there? Compiled items
from various newspapers 1916-1929
- Clayton
County Orphan children
- includes children abandoned by parents or
removed by the courts
Miscellaneous compiled information
- County
Aide to paupers & others - misc. years
When residents fell on hard times, were
aged, infirm or otherwise unable to support
themselves or their children, the County stepped
in to help out.
- Clayton Co.
Polio outbreak summer-fall 1949 - Five children died, several others
afflicted during 1949
- Uncalled
for letters at the county post offices, 1855, 1881,1882, 1883
A good resource to find people who lived
in the county for only a short time or who had
recently arrived
- Mississippi
River Pirates, Robbers & Ruffians
News articles about a ring of pirates
& thieves who were operating in the upper
Mississippi near McGregor, late 1850s.
- Pioneers and Old Settlers Festival, 1872
* Page
1: Festival
Proclamation, background info. and name lists for
the townships of Jefferson, Farmersburg, Monona,
Elk, Read & Lodomillo
* Page 2: Name
lists for the townships of Cass, Clayton, Marion,
Giard, Garnavillo & Mendon
- 1901 Cass twp. Old Settler's Reunion
A peek at pioneer life and the earliest
settlers in Cass and adjoining townships in
Clayton county
- Tales
Told by the Sturdy Men and Women of Pioneer Days
1903 Old Settlers Edition, North Iowa
Times
- Pugh
Hollow and Chipman Hollow, by C.B. Hughes, 1907
History & the pioneers of Pugh &
Chipman Hollows, Lodomillo twp.
- Iowa Picnics Held in California by
former residents
1911 Iowa Society Picnic, Los Angeles
1928
Iowa Picnic, Los Angeles
1929
Annual Iowa Picnic, Los Angeles
1930 Elkader
Reunion, Pasadena, California
- Moonshine
& Bootleggers - Was
your ancestor a bootlegger?
.. additional prohibition-related
information is found in the District
Court proceedings for various years
- History
of the Communia Colony,
by Mrs. Frank Liers in 1930
- McGregor
Sketches - by Iola B.
Quigley
The sketches include the 'Giard Tract' and
'The McGregor Estate'
- McGregor,
1857
North Iowa Times, January 9, 1857
- County Board of supervisors
* Claims
paid for May 1861
* Proceedings, September 1899
- Alaska
Gold! 1898 - Letters
& articles from Clayton co. men seeking their
fortunes
- Early Days
in Clayton co. - by
Amelia Murdock Wing
- County
& Courthouse history
- from 'The Counties and Courthouses of Iowa'
- Emma Big
Bear, the last Winnebago in NE Iowa - by Mary R. Carman in the 'Journal of
the Iowa Archeological Society'
- H.D.
Brown, the Turkey Valley Poet
A collection of poems by
Dr. Harrison Douglas Brown
- A Backroads Tour of Little Switzerland - Take day trips on the back roads of
Clayton & Allamakee counties (written
in 1957, but with an up-to-date map you can still
follow this guide)
- Document
Board Odds & Ends
Lots of miscellaneous articles, records,
stories have been posted on the Document Board -
Check them out!
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