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Cooper County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

More than 1740 pages of Cooper County history and genealogy including more than 1050 family biographies plus 29 different Cooper County communities on 5 different maps plus the 1897 Cooper County, Missouri Plat Map Book

An informative and historical overview of Cooper County, Missouri including four separate books on one CD which include 5 historical maps (1851, 1902, 1913, 1920's and 1929: these 5 maps show a total of 29 different communities); plus the full 1883 National Historical Company History of Cooper County, Missouri book (583 pages of history with over 375 different family biographies); plus the full two volume 1919 Historical Publishing Company History of Cooper County, Missouri book (1167 pages of history with over 676 different family biographies) plus 1897 Cooper County, Missouri Plat Map Book. An important resource for the study and research of Cooper County, Missouri history (including the Civil War) and genealogy.

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This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in four separate sections, ALL on one CD:

Section One of four, ALL on one CD: Maps of Cooper County, Missouri
Included here are the west central region of Missouri sections of 5 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Cooper County just 33 years after Cooper County was formed.

B. A map of 1902 Cooper County showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following:  Bellair * Billingsville * Blackwater * Boonville * Bunceton * Clarks Fork * Clifton City * Dicks * Gooch Mill * Harriston * Lamine * New Lebanon * New Palestine * Otterville * Overton * Pilotgrove (Pilot Grove) * Pisgah * Pleasant Green * Prairiehome * Vermont *

A 1904 map of Cooper County can be viewed here: Cooper County, Missouri 1904 Map

C.  A map of 1913 Cooper County showing the locations of 27 different settlements including all of the following: Bellair * Billingsville * Blackwater * Boonville * Bunceton * Byberry * Clarks Fork * Clifton City * Corioli * Cotton * Gooch Mill * Harriston * Lakota * Lamine * Lone Elm * New Lebanon * Otterville * Overton * Pilotgrove (Pilot Grove) * Pisgah * Pleasant Green * Prairie Home * Prairie Lick * Soleville * Speed * Vermont * Woolridge *

D. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

E. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

A 1904 map of Cooper County can be viewed here: Cooper County, Missouri 1904 Map

Section Two of four, ALL on one CD: Cooper County, Missouri 1897 Plat Map Book
This 65 page plat map book is in full color and at the original large format size.  These maps show not only each of the cities and towns in Cooper County in 1897 but also each of the rural townships.  Those who owned farm acreage in rural area are shown by name which makes it possible to pinpoint the location of where an individual family actually lived in 1897.  This plat map book is a rare and valuable resource for genealogy and historical research in Cooper County, Missouri.

Section Three of four, ALL on one CD: The complete 1883 National Historical Company History of Cooper County, Missouri
This detailed (583 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Cooper County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1883. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Cooper County, Missouri including all of the historical and family biographical information. Included are a total of more than 375 different family biographies.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

• Cooper County Pioneers

• Events Following Early Settlement of Cooper County, Missouri

• First Settlements in Cooper County

• Customs of Early Days

• Organization of Cooper County - Early Courts

• History of Boonville Township

• History Blackwater, Clark's Ford & Clear Creek

• History of Kelly Township

• History of Lamine & Moniteau Townships

• History of Lebanon Township

• History of Otterville Township

• History of Palestine Township

• History of Pilot Grove Township

• History of Prairie Home Township

• History of Saline Township

• The Press and Public Schools in Cooper County

• Political History of Cooper County

• War History (The Civil War) in Cooper County, Missouri

• Bench and Bar - Crime and Suicides

• Railroads

• California Emigrants - Temperance Excitement

• Samuel Cole

• Church History of Cooper County

• Official Record of Cooper County

• First Celebration of Fourth of July in Cooper County

• Cooper County of 1883

• Biographical By Township (more than 375 family biographies)

Included is a total of more than 375 Cooper County family biographies (valuable for genealogy) including each of the following family surnames (NOTE: Some family surnames have multiple biographies): (thousands of other family surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these family biographies) (an additional 676 family biographies are included in the second book listed below) To view a sample biography from this book, click here Adams * Akers * Alexander * Allen * Allison * Annan * Apperson * Armstrong * Arni * Barton * Bass * Bear * Bell * Bente * Bernard * Berry * Bestgen * Blank * Blythe * Boggs * Bohm * Boller * Bonar * Boulware * Bridges * Brooks * Bull * Bunce * Burger * Butler * Byler * Calvert * Campbell * Carey * Carpenter * Carville * Case * Castleman * Chamberlin * Clark * Clayton * Cole * Combs * Cook * Cordry * Cosgrove * Cramar * Cramer * Cranmer * Crawford * Creagan * Crenshaw * Crossley * Cullers * Cunningham * Daniel * Davis * Davison * Diringer * Dorflinger * Douglas * Draffin * Driskill * Durr * Eager * Edson * Edwards * Efinger * Eldridge * Elliott * Ellis * English * Eppstein * Erhardt * Eubank * Evans * Everett * Ewing * Farris * Floyd * Fluke * Franken * Fray * Freeman * Fricke * George * Gibson * Gilbreath * Gill * Gillum * Givens * Godbey * Golladay * Good * Goode * Goodwin * Gott * Greenhalge * Groves * Haller * Harlan * Harned * Harness * Harper * Harriman * Harris * Hartt * Hayden * Haynes * Heim * Helmreich * Hemenway * Hendricks * Higgerson * Hoberecht * Hoffman * Hopkins * Hornbeck * Howard * Hunt * Hupp * Hurt * Hutchison * James * Jewett * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Joyce * Judd * Kaiser * Kemper * Kennedy * Kimsey * King * Kirschman * Knaus * Kueckelhan * Lacy * Lamm * Leonard * Long * Macurdy * Maddex * Martin * Maxey * McCarty * McClanahan * McCoy * McCulloch * McCurdy * McCutchen * McFarland * McMahan * Meierhoffer * Meistrell * Menefee * Meredith * Meyer * Miles * Miller * Mills * Minter * Mitchell * Mitzel * Molan * Moore * Muntzel * Murphy * Neal * Neef * Neely * Nelson * Nixon * Nuckols * Nunn * Odneal * Oerly * Oglesby * Ormrod * Orr * Otten * Parrish * Paxton * Pealer * Pendleton * Poindexter * Potter * Potts * Priest * Pursley * Ragland * Ramsey * Rankin * Ravenel * Rawlings * Read * Reavis * Redd * Rennison * Reppley * Rice * Richardson * Risler * Roberts * Robertson * Rodgers * Roe * Roeder * Roeschel * Rogers * Ross * Rucker * Rust * Sahm * Sanger * Saunders * Schilb * Schlotzhauer * Schmidt * Schuster * Seaton * Sergeant * Shanklin * Shannon * Simmons * Simms * Simonds * Small * Smith * Sombart * Son * Spady * Speed * Spencer * Spieler * Spillers * Staples * Starke * Steele * Stephens * Stewart * Stites * Stone * Swap * Taliaferro * Tavenner * Teel * Thomas * Thompkins * Thompson * Thornton * Thruston * Tomlinson * Tompkins * Townsend * Travillion * Treiber * Trigg * Turley * Tutt * Varner * Vaughan * Wakefield * Walker * Walz * Webb * Wehmeier * Wenig * Wheeler * White * Whitlow * Williams * Wilson * Winders * Wing * Winston * Withers * Wooldridge * Wright * Wyan * Zeigel * Zimmerman * Zimmermann * Zollinger * Zumsteg *

Section four of four, ALL on one CD: The complete 1919 two volume Historical Publishing Company History of Cooper County, Missouri
This two volume set starts with the earliest history history of Cooper County, Missouri and continues up to the year 1919.  This rarely seen set includes 1167 pages with 676 family biographies which is valuable for genealogy research.  These volumes also include 148 photographs of buildings and individuals.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

• The History of Cooper County, Missouri

• Archeology

• Indian Mounds - The Mound Builders

• Early Exploration of Cooper County

• Early Settlements in Cooper County

• First Settlers

• Pioneer Life

• Transportation and Highways in Cooper County

• Early River Transportation

• Pioneer Roads and Travel

• First Ferries

• First Steamboats

• Arrival of First Steamboat at Franklin

• Early Steamboats Described

• Era of Steamboats

• The Santa Fe Trail

• First Railroads

• The War of 1812

• Indian Troubles

• Building of Hannah Cole Fort

• History From 1815 to 1819

• History From 1819 to 1821

• History From 1821 to 1834

• History From 1834 to 1847

• History From 1847 to 1861

• Cooper County Schools

• Kemper Military Schools

• Pilot Grove Collegiate Institute

• Churches in Cooper County

• Otterville Train Robbery by Jesse and Frank James

• The Civil War Period in Cooper County

• Battle Below Boonville

• Home Guards in Cooper County

• Shelby’s Raid

• Price’s Raid into Cooper County

• Incidents of the Civil War

• Period After The War

• World War I

• Soldiers From Cooper County

• Casualty List

• Cooper County Townships:

• Blackwater Township * Boonville Township * Clarks Fork Township * Clear Creek Township * Kelly Township * Lamine Township * Lebanon Township * North & South Moniteau Townships * Otterville Township * Palestine Township * Pilot Grove Township * Prairie Township * Saline Township *

• Cooper County Cities, Towns, and Villages: Blackwater * Boonville * Bunceton * Otterville * Pilot Grove * Prairie Home *
• Biographical History

Included is a total of 676 Cooper County family biographies (valuable for genealogy) including each of the following family surnames (NOTE: Some family surnames have multiple biographies): (thousands of other family surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these family biographies) (an additional 375+ family biographies are included in the second book listed above) To view a sample biography from this book, click here Allen * Ambrose * Amick * Anderson * Andrews * Apperson * Atkinson * Bail * Bane * Barnert * Barnes * Barnett * Barnhart * Barron * Bates * Baughman * Bauman * Bechtold * Beck * Becker * Bell * Bernard * Bestgen * Betteridge * Biltz * Blakey * Blank * Blythe * Bodamer * Boller * Bornhauser * Bowmer * Boyce * Bozarth * Brandes * Braun * Brengarth * Brickey * Brickner * Broe * Brokamp * Brokmeyer * Brosius * Brownfield * Brubaker * Brueckner * Brummel * Bryan * Buescher * Burge * Burrus * Byler * Carey * Carl * Carlos * Carpenter * Cartner * Case * Chamberlin * Chilton * Chrane * Clark * Clayton * Cleary * Cochran * Cole * Coleman * Collins * Cook * Cordry * Corson * Cosgrove * Crain * Cramer * Crawford * Creagan * Crutchfield * Cully * Darby * Dauwalter * Davin * Davis * Debo * Deck * Derendinger * Deuel * Deuschle * Devine * Doerrie * Donahew * Downing * Draffen * Drechsel * Drennen * Dugan * Dunn * Dunnavant * Durr * Eager * Edson * Edwards * Eldredge * Elliot * Ellis * English * Eppstein * Ervine * Evans * Fahrenbrink * Fairchild * Fairfax * Farris * Fassler * Felton * Fischer * Fitzpatrick * Fluke * Fray * Fredmeyer * Fricke * Friedrich * Frost * Fulton * Funkhauser * Fuser * Gantner * Garthoffner * Gehringer * Gentry * George * Gerhardt * Gibson * Gilbreath * Gilman * Glasgow * Glazier * Gmelich * Goodman * Gorrell * Gott * Gramlich * Grathwohl * Green * Gronstedt * Groom * Gross * Groves * Gunn * Guyer * Hack * Hagemeier * Hale * Haley * Haller * Hanna * Hansberger * Harlan * Harned * Harness * Harriman * Harris * Hasenbach * Haun * Hawkins * Hays * Hazell * Heiberger * Hein * Herfurth * Hesel * Hews * Hickam * Hickman * Higginbotham * Hilden * Hite * Hockenberry * Hoefer * Hoff * Hoflander * Hogan * Holman * Honerbrink * Hooper * Hopkins * Hosford * Howlett * Huber * Hudson * Huffman * Hurt * Hutchison * Immele * Irvin * Irvine * Jacobs * Jaeger * Jeffress * Jenry * Jewett * Johnmeyer * Johnson * Johnston * Jones * Kaempfer * Kahle * Kaiser * Kalvelage * Karm * Kehr * Kimsey * Kincaid * Kincheloe * King * Kirchner * Klekamp * Knosp * Koenig * Koonse * Koontz * Kramer * Kraus * Krohn * Kuhn * Kussman * Lacy * Lammers * Lang * Langkop * Lauer * Laws * Layne * Lebing * Lee * Leonard * Lester * Lieber * Lionberger * Loesing * Lohse * Lovell * Lusk * Lymer * Manger * Manion * Mann * Marshall * Masel * Mauck * Mayfield * McCarty * McClain * McCoy * McFarland * McGuire * McMahan * McNeil * McPhatridge * Meisenheimer * Melkersman * Mellor * Menefee * Meredith * Mersey * Meyer * Miller * Million * Mills * Minter * Mittelbach * Mitzel * Moehle * Moore * Morgan * Morris * Morton * Mueller * Muessig * Muntzel * Myer * Myers * Neal * Neef * Nelson * Niebruegge * Nixon * Norris * Nuckols * Oak * Odneal * Oerly * Oglesby * Ohlendorf * O'Neal * Oswald * Painter * Parrish * Patrick * Patterson * Pealer * Pendleton * Peyton * Phillips * Pigott * Poage * Poertner * Popper * Potter * Putnam * Quigg * Rankin * Reavis * Reed * Renfrow * Renken * Rethemeyer * Reynolds * Richey * Rissler * Ritchie * Roberts * Robertson * Robien * Rodgers * Roe * Roeschel * Rossen * Roth * Rothgeb * Rowles * Rudolph * Ruskin * Russell * Sappington * Sauter * Schaumburg * Schieberl * Schilb * Schler * Schleuter * Schlotzhauer * Schmalfeldt * Schmidt * Schnack * Schnuck * Scholle * Schrader * Schubert * Schupp * Schuster * Schwitzky * Scott * Sells * Shannon * Shears * Shepherd * Shirley * Shouse * Sieckman * Simrall * Sims * Sites * Sloan * Smith * Snider * Sombart * Spahr * Sparkman * Spieler * Spillers * Staebler * Stahl * Starke * Steele * Stegner * Steigleder * Steinmetz * Stephens * Stites * Stoecklein * Stretz * Strickfaden * Swap * Sweeney * Talbott * Taliaferro * Talley * Tally * Tanner * Tevis * Thomas * Thornton * Toellner * Toler * Torbeck * Trigg * Tucker * Turley * Tutt * Underwood * Victor * Viertel * Vieth * Vollmer * Vollrath * Wagner * Walden * Walker * Wallace * Walterscheid * Walther * Walz * Waterman * Wear * Weekley * Wendleton * West * Weyland * White * Whitlow * Williams * Wilson * Windsor * Wing * Winterbower * Wolfe * Wolfrum * Wood * Woodroof * Wooldridge * Woolery * Worts * Wyan * Yancey * Zeigle * Zollinger *

Cooper County is located in the central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Howard County, Missouri * Boone County, Missouri * Moniteau County, Missouri * Morgan County, Missouri * Pettis County, Missouri * and Saline County, Missouri (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)

Each of the four sections on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

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The cost for this CD containing all four sections described above is only $9.95 plus shipping, or only $6.95 as a digital download! A large amount of history and genealogy information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Cooper County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1919.

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