Greetings -
I am your County Co-Ordinator for Jo Daviess County. My name is Christine Walters.
I invite you to look around your attic, search your basement and go through your trunks full of "treasures", take stock of what 'you' might have that would benefit the Jo Daviess researcher. I hope you will consider contributing it to us so we can post it here to be shared with others. I'm always looking for Biographies, Family Stories, Obituaries, News Articles, County and Township Histories - anything that pertains to Jo Daviess County. So check back - watch for new updates.. and eventually we can work together in creating some new avenues of research for JoDaviess County.

Jo Daviess County was organized from Peoria, February 17, 1827, and was bounded as follows:  Beginning on the Mississippi River at the northwestern corner of the state, thence down the Mississippi to the north line of the Military Tract, thence east to the Illinois River, thence north to the northern boundary of the state, thence west to the place of beginning. Galena was named as the county seat. Among those who have been prominent in the history of this county, who arrived in 1827, are, Dr. Horatio Newhall, Capt. H. H. Gear and family, John G. Hughlett, James G. Soulard, William B. Green, Harvey Mann, Charles Peck, Solomon Oliver, Allan Tomlin, Gov. Thomas Ford, Col. James M.Strode, C.C.P. Hunt, Capt. John Atchison, Paul M. Gratiot, Nathaniel Morris, Moses Hallett, Lucius H. and Edward Langworthy, William Hempstead, D. B. Morehouse, and many others whose names are familiar in Jo Daviess county.