Chapter I. First Inhabitants
of Adair Count. Foreward --- First Settlers --- First Events.
Chapter II. Organization and
Government of Adair County. Creation of County --- First Meeting of
County Court --- Location of County Seat --- Further County Court
Proceedings --- The Board of Supervisors --- Summary of County
Officials --- Clerks --- Auditors --- Treasurers --- Recorders ---
Sheriffs --- Coroners --- Surveyors --- Representatives --- Senators
--- School Superintendents --- County Attorneys --- Courthouse ---
Jail History.
Chapter III. The County Seat
War.
Chapter IV. Military History
of Adair County. Roster of Men from Adair County --- Roll of
Honor --- Sketch of Twenty-Ninth Iowa Infantry --- Adair County Boys
in the Spanish-American War --- Regimental Sketch --- Adair County's
Honored Dead of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
Chapter V. Progress of
Education. The Early Schools --- 1915 School Statistics ---
Independent City, Town and Village Districts --- School Townships
--- Rural Independent Districts --- Total of All Schools ---
Educational --- Greenfield High School Building -- A Picture of
Early Schools.
Chapter VI. The Bench and
Bar of Adair County. The District Court --- The Circuit Court
--- The County Court --- Important Criminal Cases --- The Mentger
Murder --- The Bar --- The Members of the Present Bar.
Chapter VII. The Medical
Profession. First Physicians --- Adair County Medical
Association --- Register of Doctors.
Chapter VIII. History of the
Churches. Methodist Episcopal --- Congregational --- United
Presbyterian --- Catholic --- German Lutheran --- Christian ---
Orient Churches --- Baptist --- Other Churches.
Chapter IX. Greenfield Town
and Township. Organization --- Settlement --- A Sketch of
Early Greenfield --- The Present City --- Greenfield Banks --- Early
Hotels --- Mills --- First Items --- Incorporation --- Postoffice
--- Commercial Club --- Newspapers --- Greenfield Water Works ---
Paving --- Electricity --- Library --- Lodges, Societies and Clubs
--- The Creamery Industry.
Chapter X. Summerset
Township and Fontanelle. Settlement --- First Things ---
Organization --- Beginning of Fontanelle --- Early Business
Interests --- Banks --- Fontanelle Observer --- Defunct Papers ---
Municipal Growth --- Postoffice --- First Hotels --- First
Industries --- Incorporation --- Organizations.
Chapter XI. Orient Town and
Township. Organization --- Early Settlers --- Notes of History
--- Town of Orient --- Banks --- Societies --- Newspapers.
Chapter XII. Summit Township
and City of Adair. Early Settlement --- First Items ---
Organization --- Adair --- Growth of Business --- Banks ---
Newspapers --- Mills and Elevators --- Hotels --- Postoffice ---
Growth of City --- Societies --- A Train Robbery --- The 1884 Fire.
Chapter XIII. Bridgewater
Town and Township. Organization --- Bridgewater Town ---
Banks.
Chapter XIV. Jefferson
Township --- Early Settlement --- Early Day Items --- Mills --- Postoffice --- Organization.
Chapter XV. Richland
Township. Early Settlement --- Historic Items --- Organization
--- Lodges and Churches --- Biographical --- Nevin.
Chapter XVI. Jackson
Township --- Early Settlement --- First Items --- Organization --- Postoffice.
Chapter XVII. Lincoln
Township --- Early Settlement --- Items --- Organization --- Stuart.
Chapter XVIII. Harrison
Township --- Topography --- Early Settlement --- Organization ---
Port Union Postoffice --- Stores --- Notes.
Chapter XIX. Grove Township
--- Organization --- Early Settlement --- Items.
Chapter XX. Eureka Township
--- First Settlement --- Organization --- Items.
Chapter XXI. Prussia
Township --- Topography --- Early Settlement --- Organization ---
Items.
Chapter XXII. Washington
Township --- Early Settlement --- Organization --- Pioneer Notes ---
Biographical.
Chapter XXIII. Grand River
Township --- Topography --- Settlement --- Organization.
Chapter XXIV. Union Township
--- Topography --- Settlement --- Items.
Chapter XXV. Walnut Township
--- Topography --- Early Settlement --- Scraps --- Casey.
Chapter XXVI. Lee Township
--- Topography --- Early Settlement Early Events --- Organization.
Chapter XXVII. Miscellaneous
--- Railroads --- Telephones --- County Bridge and Road Work --- The
Grange --- Roads --- County Fair Association --- Farmers' Institutes
--- Agricultural Development --- Early Times in Fontanelle --- Wild
Game --- Privations --- Panther --- Reminiscences of S. W. Pryor ---
Early Settlement in North Part of Adair County --- A Bad Winter ---
Chautauqua --- Mills --- Coal Mining --- Statistics and Population
--- The Adair County Mutual Insurance Association --- An Underground
Railroad Station --- Marriages --- Town Plats --- The Silent City
--- Early Finance --- Short Sketches.
Chapter XXVIII. Geological
Report on Adair County by James Willis Gow --- Previous Geological
Work --- Elevations --- Exposures and Deep Shafts --- Exposures East
of the Divide --- The Drift Sheets --- Post-Pleistocene Deposits ---
Economic Geology --- Botany.