Chapter I.
INTRODUCTION.
Chapter II. THE
BEGINNING. Early Settlement. First Items.
Chapter III. PIONEER
LIFE. Early Manners and Customs. Character of the
Pioneers. Snakes. Wolf Hunting. Snakes.
Agriculture. Religion.
Chapter IV. COUNTY
GOVERNMENT.
Chapter V.
POLITICAL. (1856-1864) ||
(1865-1871) || (1872-1877) ||
(1878-1883)
Chapter VI. NATIONAL, STATE AND
COUNTY REPRESENTATION. Congressional. Member General
Assembly. County Judge. County Auditor. County
Treasurer. Recorder. Sheriff. Drainage
Commissioners. Coroners.
Chapter VII. Reminiscences.
Early Times in Fontanelle. Panther. By. S. W. Pryor.
By "An Old Settler." By Abner Sisson.
Chapter VIII. OTHER OFFICIAL MATTERS.
Population of Adair County. Civil Townships. Marriages.
Town Plats.
Chapter IX. COUNTY SEAT STRUGGLES.
Chapter X. COURTS OF ADAIR COUNTY.
District Court. Circuit Court. County Court.
Criminal Cases.
Chapter XI. THE BAR OF ADAIR COUNTY.
The Bar of the Past. The Bar of the Present.
Chapter XII. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Physicians of the Present.
Chapter XIII. RELIGION.
Chapter XIV. EDUCATIONAL.
School Fund Commissioner. County Superintendent.
Chapter XV. JOURNALISM IN ADAIR
COUNTY. Adair County Register. Adair County Reporter.
The Adair Reflector. The Greenfield Transcript.
Fontanelle Observer. The Adair News. The Weekly Review.
Chapter XVI. RAILROADS.
Chapter XVII. ADAIR COUNTY IN THE
WAR. Fourth Infantry. Tenth Infantry. Twenty-ninth
Infantry. Roll of Honor. Forty-seventh Infantry.
Second Veteran Cavalry. Ninth Cavalry. Fourth Cavalry.
Chapter XVIII. GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP
AND CITY. Early Settlement. Hotel. Mills.
Elevator. Little Jay Creamery. First Items.
Incorporation. Post-office. Educational. Religious
Matters. Societies. Cornet Band. Militia.
Chapter XIX. SUMMERSET TOWNSHIP.
Settlement. First Things. Organic. Educational.
FONTANELLE. Business Interests. Banks. Mill.
Hotels. Municipal. Independent School District.
Societies.
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