| The Founding of Council Bluffs |
page 5-7 |
| The Mormons |
pages 7-10 |
| Early Residents pages |
pages 10-15 |
| Council Bluffs Incorporated |
pages 15 - 17 |
| Schools |
page 17 |
| The First Murder |
page 17-18 |
| Prominent Early Settlers |
pages 18-26 |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Bill |
pages 26-27 |
| Other Settlers |
pages 27-42 |
| Civil War |
pages 45-51 |
| Early Affairs |
pages 52-63 |
| False Prophet |
page 63 |
| Union Pacific Railroad Bridge |
page 63-65 |
| Non-Partisan Election |
page 65 |
| Indian Creek |
pages 66-69 |
| At the City Election of '79 |
pages 69-71 |
| Flood of 1881 |
pages 72-74 |
| Veterans' Reunion |
pages 74-78 |
| The Courthouse and Jail |
pages 78-82 |
| Electric Street Railway |
pages 82-84 |
| Early Characters |
pages 84-86 |
| Consecutive Events |
pages 86-94 |
| Consecutive Events cont. |
pages 95-110 |
| Dr. Donald Macrae |
page 111 |
| J. F. Wilcox, Florist |
page 112 |
| Henry J. Meyer, Gardener and Florist |
page 112 |
| Market Gardening |
page 113 |
| Herman Brothers |
page 113 |
| Grape Growers' Association |
page 113 |
| The Consolidated Construction Company |
page 114 |
| The Monarch Manufacturing Company |
page 117 |
| Kimball Brothers Company |
page 117 |
| Sprague Foundry and Manufacturing Company |
page 118 |
| The Walker Manufacturing Company |
page 118 |
| Keys Brothers, Manufacturers |
page 119 |
| The Kritchmer Manufacturing Company |
page 119 |
| The Growers' Canning Company |
page 120 |
| Bloomer Ice and Cold Company |
page 120 |
| The John G. Woodward Company |
page 120 |
| The M. E. Smith Shirt Factory |
page 121 |
| Council Bluffs Brick Company |
page 121 |
| A. Metzger & Co., Wholesale Bakery |
page 122 |
| The New Specialty Manufacturing Company |
page 122 |
| The A. C. Keller Collar Company |
page 123 |
| Elevators |
page 123 |
| Council Bluffs Bedding Company |
page 123 |
| The Waterloo Creamery Company |
page 124 |
| Council Bluffs Carpet Cleaning Company |
page 124 |
| Independent Telephone Company of Council Bluffs |
page 125 |
| Directory of businesses |
page 125 |
| Churches |
pages 126-144 |
| Schools |
pages 144-153 |
| Societies and Lodges |
pages 154-164 |
| Music in the Bluffs |
pages 164-166 |
| Parks |
pages 166-167 |
| Free Public Library |
pages 167-172 |
| The Pottawattamie County Bar |
pages 172-175 |
| Cemeteries |
pages 175-176 |
| The Press |
page 177 |
| Belknap Township |
page 179 |
| Boomer Township |
page 183 |
| Crescent Township |
page 185 |
| Center Township |
page 191 |
| Garner Township |
page 192 |
| Grove Township |
page 196 |
| Hazel Dell Township |
page 198 |
| Hardin Township |
page 200 |
| James Township |
page 202 |
| Keg Creek Township |
page 202 |
| Kane Township |
page 203 |
| Knox Township and Avoca |
page 204 |
| Lewis Township |
page 211 |
| Layton Township and Walnut |
page 212 |
| Lincoln Township |
page 215 |
| Macedonia Township |
page 216 |
| Minden Township and Town of Minden |
page 220 |
| Neola Township |
page 222 |
| Norwalk Township |
page 228 |
| Pleasant Township |
page 230 |
| Rockford Township |
page 231 |
| Silver Creek Township |
page 235 |
| Valley Township and Hancock |
page 237 |
| Wright Township |
page 239 |
| Washington Township |
page 240 |
| Waveland Township |
page 244 |
| York Township |
page 245 |
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| Granville M. Dodge |
page 251 |
| Walter Inglewood Smith |
page 258 |
| C. H. Read, D. D. S. |
page 259 |
| Donald Macrae, M. D. |
page 260 |
| Soren Jensen Myrtue |
page 263 |
| John Beno |
page 264 |
| Alfred A. Lenocker |
page 266 |
| Stephen T. Miller, D. V. S. |
page 267 |
| John B. Burkey |
page 268 |
| Samuel B. Wadsworth |
page 269 |
| Joseph Rea Reed |
page 270 |
| Isaac T. Van Ness, M. D. |
page 274 |
| William Welch |
page 275 |
| John F. Garner |
page 276 |
| Capt. John P. Williams |
page 277 |
| Drayton W. Bushnell |
page 279 |
| George Keeline |
page 280 |
| John M. Galvin |
page 286 |
| Lewis S. Allen |
page 287 |
| Frank W. Dean, M. D. |
page 288 |
| Henry Schnackel |
page 289 |
| Rose H. Rice, M. D. |
page 290 |
| John Schoentgen |
page 291 |
| Oliver P. Sherraden |
page 292 |
| James E. H. Wineland |
page 296 |
| Arthur Sargent Hazelton |
page 298 |
| Henry H. Spalti |
page 299 |
| Walter F. Stephan |
page 301 |
| Frederick Rohrs |
page 302 |
| John H. Jenks |
page 305 |
| Oscar F. Lodge |
page 307
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| William Stewart Keeline |
page 308 |
| John Matthies |
page 309 |
| George T. Phelps |
page 310 |
| Edward D. Sharples |
page 311 |
| John Maassen, Sr. |
page 312 |
| Frank Merritt Beymer |
page 316 |
| C. P. Wasser |
page 318 |
| John W. Morse |
page 319 |
| L. C. Ward |
page 321 |
| Charles E. Walters |
page 322 |
| Andrew C. Keller |
page 325 |
| William Davis Hardin |
page 326 |
| William R. McDowell |
page 327 |
| David E. Stuart |
page 328 |
| Louis Eugene Renard |
page 330 |
| G. J. Miller |
page 331 |
| Eli L. Shugart |
page 332 |
| Frank J. Capell |
page 337 |
| Edwin H. Geise |
page 338 |
| William A. Mynster |
page 339 |
| Julius C. Deetkin |
page 340 |
| Arthur L. Preston |
page 341 |
| Thomas J. Beatty |
page 342 |
| Edward D. Burke |
page 346 |
| Matthias P. Mergen |
page 347 |
| Adolph Kay |
page 348 |
| Vernon Laurence Treynor |
page 349 |
| George W. Spencer |
page 350 |
| Samuel D. Tobey |
page 352 |
| Lucas F. Neumayer |
page 356 |
| August F. Dammrow |
page 357 |
| Paul C. De Vol, Sr. |
page 358 |
| Newton J. Rice |
page 361 |
| William H. Taylor |
page 362 |
| Peter Langer |
page 366 |
| Fred P. Shuttleworth |
page 368 |
| Owen J. McManus |
page 369 |
| Frank A. Fox |
page 371 |
| John H. C. Stuhr |
page 372 |
| Frank R. Children |
page 376 |
| Fritz Bernhardi |
page 377 |
| Henry H. Rock |
page 379 |
| Frederick William Habicht |
page 379 |
| Benjamin T. Stevenson |
page 382 |
| Orson W. Graham |
page 385 |
| Joshua H. Spalti |
page 386 |
| John B. Atkins |
page 387 |
| N. H. Lewis |
page 389 |
| Drury F. Dryden |
page 390 |
| John N. Horn |
page 392 |
| Peter Rief |
page 396 |
| John Fletcher |
page 398 |
| Alexander Clifford Brown |
page 399 |
| William H. Dudley |
page 400 |
| John Peter Mergen |
page 401 |
| A. T. Hubbard |
page 402 |
| Nels Olsen |
page 406 |
| August Olderog |
page 407 |
| J. C. Miller |
page 408 |
| Melvin J. Bellinger |
page 409 |
| J. P. Allensworth |
page 410 |
| George Wise, Jr. |
page 411 |
| Uriah McLean |
page 412 |
| Shepard Farnsworth |
page 416 |
| C. B. Bardsley |
page 418 |
| O. M. Bruce |
page 419 |
| James H. Gasson |
page 421 |
| Henry De Long |
page 422 |
| James Hunter |
page 426 |
| Claus Kuhr |
page 427 |
| Lucius G. Consigny |
page 428 |
| Hans Peters |
page 429 |
| Herman Grote, Sr. |
page 430 |
| Samuel B. Snyder |
page 431 |
| Hugh Pritchard |
page 432 |
| Ira Platner |
page 436 |
| William Overman |
page 437 |
| Franklin W. Miller |
page 438 |
| Robert W. Jones |
page 439 |
| Paul McDonald |
page 440 |
| C. H. Berkshire |
page 441 |
| John T. Hazen |
page 442 |
| Eaton Barnes |
page 446 |
| Charles C. Platner |
page 448 |
| John F. Jackson |
page 449 |
| Diedrich Kohlscheen |
page 451 |
| John Boyd Dingman |
page 452 |
| Ovide Vien |
page 456 |
| John O'Donnell |
page 458 |
| William Fletcher Sapp |
page 459 |
| G. D. McClaskey |
page 460 |
| Clair J. Stilwell |
page 461 |
| Christ V. Rock |
page 462 |
| Philip E. Hetrick |
page 466 |
| John W. Warner |
page 467 |
| John Dea |
page 468 |
| Robert Officer |
page 469 |
| William Niemann |
page 471 |
| Frank B. Hahn |
page 472 |
| John W. Crow |
page 475 |
| John F. McAneney |
page 476 |
| John N. Frum |
page 477 |
| Irad T. Spangler |
page 478 |
| Charles Lunkley |
page 480 |
| Frank T. True |
page 481 |
| Adolph Geise |
page 482 |
| Thomas Burke |
page 485 |
| Otto Ronna |
page 486 |
| Henry W. Rothert |
page 487 |
| William Frederick Richard |
page 489 |
| Lysander Wayland Tulleys |
page 490 |
| Joseph E. O'Neill |
page 492 |
| Millard F. Rohrer |
page 495 |
| Adolph L. Klopping |
page 498 |
| Esty P. Woodring |
page 499 |
| John J. Myrtue |
page 500 |
| H. J. Giese |
page 501 |
| William Spears |
page 502 |
| William H. Goff |
page 506 |
| Frederick Swingle |
page 507 |
| Julius C. Strohbehn |
page 508 |
| Paul I. Van Order |
page 509 |
| Robert R. Sherer |
page 510 |
| David A. Snapp |
page 511 |
| Benjamin Ross Purdy |
page 512 |
| Elmer E. Minnick |
page 515 |
| Francis How |
page 516 |
| Paul C. De Vol |
page 517 |
| Ambrose Crellin |
page 518 |
| Justin J. Olney |
page 519 |
| Martin Plähn |
page 520 |
| Walter S. Goodrich |
page 521 |
| Lewis Hammer |
page 522 |
| Claus Henry Fleming |
page 526 |
| Claus Moeller |
page 527 |
| Henry E. Schoening |
page 528 |
| J. H. Schultz |
page 529 |
| William C. Cheyne |
page 530 |
| Peter Eggers |
page 531 |
| Richard Eckel |
page 532 |
| Henry Watts Hart |
page 535 |
| Algernon Sidney Bonham |
page 536 |
| Alonzo M. Bonham |
page 538 |
| George Wise, Sr. |
page 539 |
| Jurgen F. Ronna |
page 540 |
| Samuel A. Greene |
page 542 |
| George G. Baird |
page 545 |
| F. Lee Johnson |
page 546 |
| H. Verner Battey |
page 547 |
| John H. Andersen |
page 548 |
| Frank Blank |
page 550 |
| James W. Mitchell |
page 550 |
| G. A. Miller |
page 551 |
| William Clark, Sr. |
page 552 |
| Ray O. Williams |
page 556 |
| George Maier |
page 557 |
| Theodore Henry Dingman |
page 561 |
| Surname index 1 |
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| Surname index 2 |
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