HISTORICAL INDEX O'BRIEN COUNTY.
A |
| Abstracts of Title | 478 |
| Administrative Period | 26 |
| Agricultural Society | 481 |
| Agricultural Statistics | 474 |
| Agriculture | 177 |
| Altitude | 482 |
| Ancient Free and Accepted Masons | 346 | |
| Archer | 398 |
| Business Interests | 399 |
| Churches | 319 |
| How Named | 398 |
| Incorporation | 398 |
| Platting of | 358 |
| Postmasters | 399 |
| Schools | 399 |
| Archer Bank | 241, 247 |
| Archer, John H | 191 |
| Archer Superior to Omaha | 464 |
| Army Record of Old Soldiers | 499 |
| Attorneys, County | 121 |
| Attorneys of O'Brien County | 262 |
| Auditors, County | 108 , 118 |
B |
| Baker Library | 214 |
| Baker Township | 420 |
| Early Settlement | 420 |
| Old Soldiers | 500 |
| Organization | 420 |
| Population | 420 |
| Squatters | 106 |
| Balkema, Nicholas | 469 |
| Bank Statistics | 245 |
| Banks and Banking | 230 |
| Banquet of Land Attorneys | 105 |
| Baptist Church | 337 |
| Bar of O'Brien County | 262 |
| Beach, Fred, Death of | 209 |
| Black Hawk | 202 |
| Blizzards | 143 |
| Boodle Board | 48 |
| Bosler, James W | 32, 41 |
| Bounty Money Scalped | 51 |
| Burial Mounds | 484 |
C |
| Caledonia Township | 430 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Settlement | 430 |
| Calumet | 442 |
| Business Interests | 444 |
| Churches | 319 |
| First Election | 443 |
| Location | 442 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Park | 443 |
| Platting of | 358 |
| Postofflce | 444 |
| Public Improvements | 443 |
| Calumet Bank | 242, 247
|
| "Calumet Independent" | 300 |
| Cannon, Charles C. | 469 |
| Carroll Township | 391 |
| Early Settlers | 391 |
| First School | 225 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Pioneers | 393 |
| Reminiscences | 222 |
| Squatters | 106 |
| Catholic Church | 338 |
| Center Township | 417 |
| Early Settlers | 417 |
| Location | 417 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Organization | 417 |
| Chautauquas | 198 |
| Chickens, Prairie | 488 |
| Christian Churches | 332 |
| Christian Reformed Church | 331 |
| Christian Science Church | 332 |
| Church of Christ | 332 |
| Church Schools | 199 |
| Church Statistics | 343 |
| Churches | 311 |
| Circuit Court | 249 |
| City Government | 354 |
| Clerk of Courts | 261 |
| Congregational Churches | 322 |
| Congressional Districts | 483 |
| Congressional Land Grants | 86 |
| Congressmen | 483 |
| Constitutional Debt Limitation | 76
|
| Contested Election | 114 |
| Contests for County Seat | 153 |
| County Attorneys | 121 |
| County Auditors | 108 , 118 |
| County Debt | 56 |
| County Debt Rebonded | 83 |
| County Expenditures | 474 |
| County Farm | 123 |
| County Government | 108 |
| County Home | 123 |
| County Judge | 109 |
| County Officials, 1913 | 170 |
| County Organization Election | 31 |
| County Recorders | 119 |
| County Records | 119 |
| County Seat Contests | 153 |
| County Superintendent Schools | 194,
199 |
| County Supervisors | 120 |
| County Surveyors | 120 |
| County Treasurers | 113 |
| Court Held in Paine's Store | 134 |
| Court House, Log | 42, 129,
137 |
| Court House History | 129 |
| Court House Public Square | 135 |
| Court Proceedings | 276 |
| Courts, The | 249 |
| Creative Period | 26 |
| Crops, First | 70 |
| Customs of Early Settlers | 68 |
| Cyclones | 139, 142 |
D |
| Dale Township | 422 |
| Description | 422 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Settlement | 422 |
| Soil | 422 |
| Squatters | 105 |
| Death of Fred Beach | 209 |
| Debt, County | 56 |
| Debt, County, Rebounded | 53 |
| Debt Limitation | 76 |
| Dedication of County Home | 124 |
| District Court | 249 |
| District Judges | 249 |
| Doctor, the First | 53 |
| Doctors, First | 302 |
| Doctors, Registered | 306 |
| "Dutch Fred" | 36, 45,
446 |
E
|
| Early Settlers | 65
|
| Early Settlers, Customs of | 68 |
| Educational History | 194 |
| Edwards, Andrew J. | 111 |
| Election Contest | 114 |
| Election, County Organization | 31 |
| Election, First General | 31, 42 |
| Election, Second General | 32 |
| English Settlers | 66 |
| Entry of First Homestead | 45 |
| Estates | 285 |
| Evangelical Association | 331 |
| Evangelical Churches | 327 |
| Eviction of Squatters | 96 |
| Expenditures, County | 474 |
| Expenses, Curious Early | 62 |
F |
| Farm Improvements | 188 |
| Farm Products | 181 |
| Farmers' Institutes | 189 |
| Farmers Mutual Ins. Ass'n | 468 |
| Farms, Large | 190 |
| Feldman, Fred | 36, 45,
446 |
| Fiddle String Township | 383 |
| Fires, Prairie | 73, 147 |
| First Crops | 70 |
| First General Election | 31, 42 |
| First Grand Jury | 252 |
| First Homestead Entry | 45 |
| First Jury Case | 253 |
| First Physicians in County | 302 |
| First Record Entries | 53 |
| First Sermon in County | 313 |
| First Things | 52 |
| First White Child | 41 |
| Flowers, Wild | 188 |
| Floyd Township | 361 |
| Early Settlers | 362 |
| How Named | 361 |
| Location | 362 |
| Old Soldiers | 501 |
| Squatters | 107 |
| Foreign Fopulation | 75 |
| Fort Dodge Crowd | 42 |
| Franklin Township | 375 |
| How Named, | 375 |
| Old Soldiers | 502 |
| Population | 376 |
| Settlement | 375 |
| Squatters | 106 |
| Fraternal Societies | 346 |
| Freemasonry | 346 |
| French Settlers | 74 |
| Friends, Society of | 325 |
| Fruits | 187 |
G |
| Game, Wild | 489 |
| Gaza | 423 |
| Platting of | 358 |
| Woodstock, Known as | 424 |
| Gaza Bank | 242, 247 |
| German Evan. Church of No. Am | 336 |
| German Evan. Luth. Zion Churches | 327 |
| German Settlers | 68 |
| Germantown | 431 |
| Location | 431 |
| Platting of | 359 |
| Postoffice | 432 |
| Government, County | 108 |
| Grand Jury, First | 252 |
| Grant Township | 426 |
| First Settlers | 427 |
| Milwaukee Road | 429 |
| Natural Features | 427 |
| Old Soldiers | 502 |
| Grasshoppers | 149 |
| Groves | 180 |
H |
| Hartley: | 384 |
| Beginning of | 284 |
| Business Directory | 389 |
| Churches: | 317 |
| First Officers | 385 |
| Incorporation | 384 |
| Mayors | 390 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Platting of | 357 |
| Postoffice | 388 |
| Present Officers | 387 |
| Public Utilities | 388 |
| School History | 385 |
| Soldiers' Monument | 388 |
| Hartley Banks | 239, 246 |
| "Hartley Journal" | 299 |
| "Hartley News" | 300 |
| "Hartley Record" | 299 |
| Hartley Township | 384 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Highland Township | 423 |
| Old Soldiers | 502 |
| Hay Twister | 479 |
| High Schools | 195, 197 |
| Hollanders | 68 |
| Homestead Entry, First | 45 |
| Homestead Law | 65 |
| Hospitals | 304 |
| Hub Hotel | 167 |
| Humorous Incidents | 455 |
| Hunter, A Noted | 499 |
I |
| Improvements, Farm | 188 |
| Incident, Curious Indian | 487 |
| Incorporated Towns | 354 |
| Independent Order of Odd Fellows | 350 |
| Indian Incident, Curious | 487 |
| Indian Occupancy | 200 |
| Indian Scare | 455 |
| Indian Treaties | 201 |
| Indians in O'Brien County | 37 |
| Inman, Chester W. | 192 |
| Institutes, Farmers' | 189 |
| Institutes, Teachers' | 198 |
| Irish Settlers | 67 |
J |
| Jails | 136 |
| Jokes Reminiscent | 462 |
| Jordan, Samuel J. | 193 |
| Judges | 249 |
| Judges, County | 109 |
| Jury Case, First | 253 |
| Justices' Courts | 286 |
K |
| Knights of Pythias | 352 |
L |
| Land Grants, Congressional | 86 |
| Land Investors | 244 |
| Land Jumping | 43,
92 |
| Land Litigation | 94 |
| Land Loans | 178 |
| Land Office Trials | 93 |
| Land Squatters, List of | 105 |
| Land Values | 178 |
| Lands, Overlapping | 85 |
| Lands, Squatter | 85 |
| Law Suits | 276 |
| Lawyers of O'Brien County | 262 |
| Lecture Courses | 198 |
| Legal Questions | 277 |
| Liberty Township | 442 |
| Old Soldiers | 504 |
| Library, First Circulating | 53 |
| Library, Gen. N. B. Baker | 214 |
| Library Parties | 218 |
| Lincoln Township | 382 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| List of O'Brien Soldiers | 499 |
| Litigation | 276 |
| Litigation, Land | 94 |
| Little Sioux River | 179 |
| Lodges | 346
|
| Log Court House | 42, 129,
137 |
Mc |
| McCormack, B. F. | 491 |
| McCormack, F. M. (Pomp) | 290 |
| McCormack, John | 490 |
M
|
| Masonic Order | 346 |
| Medical History | 302 |
| Medical Progress | 309 |
| Meeting, a Notable | 81 |
| Memorable Winters | 146 |
| Methodist Churches | 311 |
| Milwaukee Lands | 86, 95 |
| Minerals, Lack of | 190 |
| Miscellaneous | 468 |
| Moneta | 419 |
| Business Interests | 419 |
| Churches | 321 |
| Fires | 420 |
| First Things | 419 |
| Incorporation | 419 |
| Platting of | 357 |
| Moneta Bank | 240, 247 |
| Mound Builders | 200 |
| Mounds, Burial | 484 |
| Murray, Archibald | 110 |
N
|
| Naming of County | 28 |
| Newspapers | 287 |
| Norwegian Lutheran Church | 330 |
| Notable Meeting | 81 |
O |
| O'Brien County Agricultural Society | 481 |
| "O'Brien County Bell" | 290 |
| O'Brien County in the Humorous | 465 |
| O'Brien County, Naming of | 28 |
| O'Brien County, Organization of | 29 |
| O'Brien County Relics | 176 |
| O'Brien, Old | 208 |
| "O'Brien Pioneer" | 289 |
| O'Brien, William Smith | 28 |
| Ocheyedan River | 179 |
| Odd Fellows | 350 |
| Official Vote in 1912 | 472 |
| Officials, County, 1913 | 470 |
| Old Log Court House | 42, 129,
137 |
| Old O'Brien | 208 |
| Old Settlers' Parade | 174 |
| Old Settlers' Reunion | 169 |
| Omega Township | 418 |
| How Named | 418 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Population | 419 |
| Orchards | 184 |
| Organization of O'Brien County | 29 |
| Origin of Pioneers | 66 |
| Overlapping Land Suit | 278 |
| Overlapping Lands | 85 |
| Ox-team Trips | 37 |
P |
| Paine's Store Court House | 134 |
| Parade of Old Settlers | 174 |
| Parochial Schools | 199, 329 |
| "Pathfinder of O'Brien County" | 392 |
| Paulling, D. Edward | 190 |
| Paullina | 432 |
| Additions | 435 |
| Churches | 319, 333 |
| Coming of Railroad | 434 |
| First Business Men | 439 |
| Grain Shipments | 441 |
| How Named | 439 |
| Library | 437 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Organization of | 435 |
| Platting of | 358,
434 |
| Public Utilities | 436 |
| School District | 438 |
| Paullina Banks | 238, 247 |
| "Paullina Star" | 294 |
| "Paullina Times" | 294 |
| Physician, the First | 53 |
| Physicians, First | 302 |
| Physicians, Registered | 306 |
| Pioneer Women | 220 |
| Pioneers of O'Brien County | 25 |
| Pioneers, Origin of | 66 |
| Poetry of a Local Flavor | 506 |
| Platting of Towns | 356, 359 |
| Population Statistics | 75, 473 |
| Prairie, Advantages of | 70 |
| Prairie Chickens | 488 |
| Prairie Features | 177 |
| Prairie Fires | 73, 147 |
| Prairie Land | 177 |
| Preacher, the First | 52 |
| Prehistoric Fortifications | 484 |
| Prehistoric Races | 200
|
| Presbyterian Churches | 333
|
| Present Court House | 134 |
| Press, The | 287 |
| Primghar | 402 |
| Business Interests | 415 |
| Charter Families | 404 |
| Churches | 316, 323,
341 |
| County-Seat Contest | 405 |
| Epidemic | 412 |
| Fires | 411 |
| First Buildings | 406 |
| First Election | 411 |
| Hospital | 412 |
| How Named | 402 |
| Incorporation | 411 |
| Mills | 412 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Platting of | 356 |
| Present Officers | 411 |
| Public Square | 405 |
| Railroad Building | 409 |
| Schools | 413 |
| Town Plat | 404 |
| Water Works | 415 |
| Primghar Banks | 230, 245 |
| "Primghar Democrat" | 295 |
| "Primghar Times" | 294 |
| Products, Farm | 181 |
| Public Improvements | 127 |
| Public Officials | 469 |
| Public Roads | 188 |
| Public Square, Primghar | 135 |
| Pumphrey's Bank | 58, 230 |
Q
|
| Quieting Title Litigation | 283 |
R |
| Raid, The Sanborn | 156 |
| Railroad Contract Men | 105 |
| Railroad Land | 86 |
| Railroad Land Contest | 87 |
| Railroad Land Taxation | 278 |
| Railroad Mileage | 473 |
| Ranches, Large | 190 |
| Rebonding of County Debt | 83 |
| Record of County-seat Contest | 165 |
| Recorders. County | 119 |
| Records, County | 119 |
| Records, The First | 53 |
| Records, Old, History of | 55 |
| Referee in Bankruptcy | 284 |
| Reformed Church in No. Am | 335 |
| Registered Physicians | 306 |
| Relics of O'Brien County | 176 |
| Religious History | 311 |
| Religious Statistics | 343 |
| Reminiscences | 205, 222 |
| Reunion of Old Settlers | 169 |
| Rivers | 179 |
| Road, Public | 188 |
| Rural Schools | 199 |
S |
| Banks | 237, 246 |
| Business Interests | 380 |
| Churches | 340 |
| First Things | 377 |
| Library | 382 |
| Municipal History | 379 |
| Old Soldiers | 503,
504 |
| Platting of | 357 |
| Postoffice | 380 |
| Public Utilities | 379 |
| Railroad Interests | 381 |
| "Sanborn Journal" | 297 |
| "Sanborn Pioneer" | 289 |
| Sanborn Raid | 156 |
| "Sanborn Sun" | 298 |
| Scandinavian Settlers | 68 |
| Schee, George W. | 196,
268
|
| School Buildings, Modern | 197 |
| School Superintendent, County | 194,
199 |
| School, the First | 52 |
| Schools | 194, 384,
399, 413 |
| Scotch Settlers | 67 |
| Scrub Poet, The | 506 |
| Second General Election | 32 |
| Second O'Brien Court House | 132 |
| Secret Orders | 346 |
| Sermon, First in County | 313 |
| Sermon, the First | 52 |
| Settlers, Customs of | 68 |
| Settlers, Origin of | 66 |
| Settlers' Reunion, Old | 169 |
| Shabbona | 431 |
| Sheldon | 365 |
| Banks | 233, 245
|
| Business Interests | 373 |
| Churches | 318, 337,
340 |
| Congregational Church | 226 |
| "Daily Record" | 301 |
| "Eagle" | 298 |
| District Fair | 371 |
| Electric Light Plant | 369 |
| First Events | 366 |
| "Gazette" | 298 |
| Improvements | 368 |
| Library | 369 |
| "Mail" | 295 |
| Mills | 372 |
| Municipal History | 367 |
| National Guard | 370 |
| "News" | 291, 297 |
| Old Soldiers | 504 |
| Platting of | 356 |
| Postoffice | 366 |
| Stock Breeders | 372 |
| "Sun" | 298 |
| Water Works | 368 |
| Sheriffs | 260 |
| Sioux City Land Squatters | 99 |
| Snow Storms | 143 |
| Sod Church | 312 |
| Soil, Quality of | 181 |
| Soldiers, Army Record of | 499 |
| Soldiers' Bounty Money | 51 |
| Soldiers' Monument | 388 |
| Squatter Incidents | 101 |
| Squatter Lands | 85 |
| Squatters Evicted | 96 |
| Squatters, List of | 105 |
| Squatters' Shanties | 91 |
| Squatters, Sioux City Land | 99 |
| Squatters Union | 104 |
| State Officials | 470 |
| Statutes, Inconsistent | 92 |
| Stocum, Jonathan | 192 |
| Streams | 179 |
| Streeter, Elizabeth | 282 |
| Summit Township | 400 |
| Deeded Township | 401 |
| Location | 400 |
| Old Soldiers | 505 |
| Organization | 400 |
| Squatters | 105 |
| Supervisors, County | 120 |
| Supervisors in Contempt | 77 |
| Surveyors, County | 120 |
| Sutherland | 448 |
| Banks | 241, 248 |
| Business Directory | 452 |
| "Courier" | 300 |
| Fair Ground | 450 |
| First Events | 449 |
| Library | 449 |
| Location | 448 |
| Municipal History | 451 |
| Officers | 451 |
| Old Soldiers | 503 |
| Pioneer Merchants | 449 |
| Platting of | 358 |
| Postoffice History | 452 |
| Public Utilities | 451 |
| Swamp Land Contracts | 61 |
| Swamp Land Swindle | 62 |
T |
| Tax Sale of 1880 | 82 |
| Taxpayers' Association | 76 |
| Taxpayers' Association Picnic | 78 |
| Teabout, Franklin | 191 |
| Teachers' Institutes | 198 |
| Timber | 180 |
| Towns | 354 |
| Towns, Platting of | 356, 359 |
| Township Government | 355,
360 |
| Township, the First | 52 |
| Township | 354 |
| Treasurers, County | 113 |
| Treaties with Indians | 201 |
| Tree Planting | 180 |
| Tribes, Indian | 201 |
U |
| Uniformity of the County | 184 |
| Union Township | 433 |
| Coming of Railroad | 434 |
| Norwegian Settlers | 442 |
| Old Soldiers | 505 |
| Organization of | 433 |
| Population | 442 |
V |
| Value of Land | 178 |
| Vital Statistics | 473 |
| Vote, Official, 1912 | 472 |
| Vote on County Seat, 1911 | 166 |
W |
| Waterman, Anna | 41 |
| Waterman Creek | 179 |
| Waterman, Hannibal H. | 32, 35,
41, 43 |
| Waterman Township | 445 |
| First Settlement | 445
|
| Homesteaders | 446 |
| How Formed | 445 |
| Old Soldiers | 505 |
| Wild Flowers | 188 |
| Wild Game | 489 |
| Winterble, Charles H. | 117 |
| Winters, Severe | 146 |
| Wolf Scalp Joke | 459 |
| "Woman's Standard" | 300 |
| Women, Pioneer | 220 |
| Woods, William H. (Huse) | 392 |
| Woodstock | 424 |
Y |
| Young Men's Christian Ass'n | 344 |
