History and Genealogy of Howard County Iowa
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Cities and Towns Chester Cresco Elma Lime Springs Riceville Florenceville (unincorporated)		County Information Howard County was founded in 1851, organized from Chickasaw and Floyd counties. It was named after General Tilghman Ashurst Howard, a Representative of Indiana. The county seat is Cresco.
ONLINE DATA Births Biographies Deaths Census Data Marriages Cemeteries Newspapers Historical Info Obituaries Military Data Website updates: 30 Nov 2009: Updated Cemetery List 06 Oct 2009: Obit - Wm. R. Emslie Mar 2009: Civil War Roster of Enlisted Men; Military Data; Civil War Principal Regiments; Historical Info; Early Settlers 21 Jan 2008: Obits for BALDWIN, BLUHM, CRAY, FARRAR, MEYER, NAGLE, PARCHMAN, ROBERTS, SCHARNWEBER, SCHULTZ, SHAFER, TRUMAN, VELIE, WILLIAMS; List of Cemeteries		We'll be adding data to this site as we can. You can help us to get this site growing by sending in your family's data. Subscribe to our mailing lists to get notification when we update this and our other midwestern websites.
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