Source Information

Ancestry.com. Iowa History and Its Foremost Citizens [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Brigham, Johnson. Iowa Its History and Its Foremost Citizens. Vol. 1-2. Chicago, IL and Des Moines, IA, USA: S. J. Clark Publishing, 1918.

About Iowa History and Its Foremost Citizens

This database contains a history of Iowa and its prominent citizens. Topics covered in this history include discoveries; Indians; explorers; pioneers; the Louisiana Purchase; Iowa as a territory; Iowa as a state; the Reconstruction Period (1868-1900); Iowa in the Twentieth Century (1900-1917); and others. The history is interspersed with historical biographies on the state's foremost citizens. Historical works contain valuable information that can be a great addition to your genealogical research as they provide information on the time and place in which your ancestors lived, which will help you place your ancestors in a historical context.