Welcome to Mower County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information In 1852 Jacob McQuillin and his family settled what was to become Mower County. By 1855 the area had enough people to merit official formation and on March 1, 1856 Minnesota Governor Willis A. Gorman signed the act organizing Mower County. The county was named in honor of John Edward Mower, a member of the territorial legislature. Parent County: Fillmore, Freeborn Named for John Edward Mower County Seat Austin Townships Cities Udolpho Waltham Sargeant Pleasant Valley Racine Lansing Red Rock Dexter Grand Meadow Frankford Austin Windom Marshall Clayton Bennington Lyle Nevada Adams Lodi Le Roy Adams Austin Brownsdale Dexter Elkton Grand Meadow Le Roy Lyle Mapleview Racine Rose Creek Sargeant Taopi Waltham Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr. 2013: Early Mower Co. Marriage Licenses to 1884; Civil War Deaths - Soldiers from Mower Co.. Mar. 2013: Obit: Bostwick Marriage Announcement: Elliott - Garish Jan. 2013: Marriage: Allen-Moore July 2012: Bio: Burnham May 2012: Bio: Ames; Marriage: Bacon-Nickels Apr. 2012: Bios: Frank, Morgan Mar. 2012: Tornado (1928); Bios: Clement, Crane, Steenerson; Obits: Beemis, Boyd, Hovda, Johnson, Shields, Van Winkle, Wilhelm Feb. 2012: Civil War History; WW2 Army Honor List; Bio: Kingsley; Mower Co. History (1911); 1st Settlers of Mower Co. Jan 2012: Early history and county organization; Sick List news for WRIGHT Previous Updates: Obits for HALL, Andrew, Andrew Jr, & Samuel; News Item for INGMUNDSON; obits for BROWNING, BARRICK; Bio for Moses Armstrong; Partial Cemetery listings: Cedar City, Dexter, Frankford, Grand Meadow, Greenwood, Lansing, Oakwood, Pleasant Valley, Rose Creek, Salem, Tanner, Taopi, Udolpho, Waltham & Woodbury SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Dodge County (north) Olmsted County (northeast) Fillmore County (east) Freeborn County (west) Howard Co, Iowa (southeast) Mitchell County, Iowa (south) Worth County, Iowa (southwest) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.