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Greene County, Iowa

Books

1. Stillman, E. B.. Past and present of Greene County, Iowa / Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1907, 662 pgs. (Surname list and Table of Contents)

2. Northwestern Iowa : its history and traditions, 1804-1926 : comprising the counties of Woodbury, Monona, Plymouth, Cherokee, O'Brien, Sioux, Lyon, Osceola, Sac, Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Calhoun, Ida, Crawford, Carroll and Greene / Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1927, 1563 pgs. (Surname list and Table of Contents)

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Periodicals

• April 1968
  • First Marriages 1854-1873
  • Record of Wills, Book I
• Summer 1980
  • Brief History
  • Early Births
  • Marriages, 1880-1883
  • Early Deaths
  • Probate Records
  • 1860 Census
• Naturalization Records Index (Fall 1980)
• Tombstone Inscriptions (Winter 1981)
• Old Settlers Association Ledger Index (Fall-Winter 1982)
• Will Book A Index (Summer 1984)
• Index to Will Book 2 (Winter 1988)
• Fire in Greene County (Spring 1991)
• Iowa Delayed Birth Certificates, Filed 1942-43 (Summer 1994)

• Old Franklin Township Cemetery (Summer 1966)

Palimpsest:

• Iowa Innovations: The Army Helps the Farmer (July/August 1981)

GREENE COUNTY was created in 1851 from territory at one time belonging to Benton. It lies in the fifth tier south of Minnesota and in the fourth east of the Missouri River and contains sixteen townships making an area of five hundred seventy-six square miles. The county was named for General Nathaniel Greene of the American Revolution and was first attached to Polk. The North Raccoon River flows through it in a southeasterly direction with heavy timber along its banks.
     Truman Davis was the first settler in the county; taking a claim in 1849 near where Rippey stands. Enos Buttrick located near the mouth of Buttrick's Creek and Richard Hardin, at Hardin's Creek, the same year. In 1850-51 R. W. Babb, William Crumley, Josiah Bluncett, Thomas Greenup, John Barr and others settled along the Raccoon River.
     The county was organized in 1854 by the election of the following officers: William Phillips, judge; S. G. Crumley, clerk; James H. Phillips, recorder and treasurer; Isaac D. Crumley, sheriff, and N. S. Daniels, prosecuting attorney.
     The town of Jefferson was laid out on the banks of the Raccoon River in 1854 and named for the author of the Declaration of Independence. It was made the county-seat and the first house was built by G. S. Walton in June, 1855. The first term of court was held by Judge C. J. McFarland in May, 1856. It was ten years before a newspaper was started. In 1866 M. L. and H. Money established the Jefferson Bee. The Chicago Northwestern Railroad was built through the county from east to west in 1868. The town of Grand Junction was laid out at the point where the Des Moines Valley Railroad crosses the line of the Northwestern.

Source: History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Benjamin F. Gue. New York: The Century History Co. 1903 #