Source Information

Ancestry.com. Iowa Biographical Dictionary, 1878 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men. Chicago and New York, USA: American Biographical Publishing, 1878.

About Iowa Biographical Dictionary, 1878

This database contains a biographical record, published in 1878, of the prominent and representative men of the state of Iowa. This database would be of great worth to researchers with ancestors from this area of the United States. Even though your ancestors may not be listed in this biographical record (since it only covers the most prominent citizens of the area), much can be learned by reading about the lives of others who lived during the time of your ancestors, for, as stated in the preface of this work, "history…is composed in a large part of biographies of men made great by their own heroic and noble exertions."