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"Past 2 Present"

Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa

by Manoah Hedge
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1906, 576 pgs.

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Chapter I. The first Iowa explorers

Chapter II. First white settlers in Iowa

Chapter III. Important land deals with the Indians

Chapter IV. Some early Mahaska settlers

Chapter V. Pioneer life

Chapter VI. Claim associations

Chapter VII. Chief Mahaska

Chapter VIII. Organization of Mahaska County

Chapter IX. Personal Recollections and early reminiscences

Chapter X. Early Oskaloosa

Chapter XI. Facts and incidents about Mahaska pioneers

Chapter XII. Kish-Ke-Kosh, the Mahaska County chief, and his people

Chapter XIII. Holland in Mahaska County

Chapter XIV. The flood year--1851

Chapter XV. Mahaska County Mills...

Chapter XVI. Recollections of pioneer days

Chapter XVII. First schools and their teachers

Chapter XVIII. Pioneer doctors

Chapter XIX. Adams, Black Oak and Cedar townships

Chapter XX. East Des Moines Township

Chapter XXI. Garfield and Harrison townships

Chapter XXII. Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison and Monroe townships

Chapter XXIII. Pleasant Grove, Prairie and Richland townships

Chapter XXIV. Scott, Spring Creek, Union, West Des Moines and White Oak townships

Chapter XXV. Missionaries -- Early Ox Roasts

Chapter XXVI. The war period

Chapter XXVII. The war period (continued)

Chapter XVIII. First things in Mahaska County

Chapter XXIX. Oskaloosa's cemeteries

Chapter XXX. Railroads of Mahaska County

Chapter XXXI. Colleges

Chapter XXXII. County Press

Chapter XXXIII. Oskaloosa past and present

Chapter XXXIV. Two useful organizations.

Chapter XXXV. Some Interesting facts gathered from old county records

Biographical

Index