Welcome to Wells County ND History and Genealogy Presented by North Dakota Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform research for you. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. County Information The county was founded in 1883 by territorial legislation (predating statehood). It was named after Oscar M. Towner (b. 1842, d. 1897), who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. After founding, the county government was fully organized on January 24, 1884. Townships Berlin Bilodeau Bremen Bull Moose Cathay Chaseley Crystal Lake Delger Fairville Forward Fram Germantown Haaland Hamburg Hawksnest Heimdal Hillsdale Johnson Lynn Manfred Norway Lake Oshkosh Pony Gulch Progress Rusland Saint Anna Silver Lake South Cottonwood Speedwell Sykeston Valhalla Wells West Norway West Ontario Western Woodward         Villages, Towns and Cities Bowdon Bremen Cathay Chaseley Fessenden Hamberg Harvey Heaton Hurdsfield Sykeston     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: June 2012: Bio for COVELL April 2012: Bios for James Atkinson, Ambrose H. Hardy, John G. Johns, James L. Lee, J. Austin Regan and Marshall Brinton - Obits for Marion D. Brown, Gottfried Gludt, Mrs. Gussek, Mrs. Charles Johnson, William Kunkel, Sophia Pepple, William F. Price, Robert Turnbull,John A. Williams,Mikel Stoos,Herbert J. Fincher,Robert Lyall,  and John R. Sales and Several marriage Announcements- World War II Army Enlistment Records- A little history- 1890 veteran Census Previous Updates: Biographies for LEU, WARTNER, WILLIAMS; List of Cemeteries; Military Records Join our Genealogy Trails Western 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 Surrounding Counties Benson County (north) Eddy County (East) Foster County (east) Stutsman County (southeast) Kidder County (south) Sheridan County (west) Pierce County (northwest)   Visit our ND State Site   Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.