- Benton County -
History of Benton County
by Ed A. Mossman
pub. F. A. Battey & Co., Chicago, 1883
- General County Matters
- Settlement of the County
- Early Marriages
- Early Land Entries
- Creation of Townships
- Organization of the County
- Early Elections
- Early Courts
- Erection of Public Buildings
- First Court House
- First Jail
- Second Court House at Oxford
- County Farm & Buildings
- Re-location of County Seat
- Court House at Fowler
- Apostrophe to the Old Court House
- The Jail at Fowler
- MILITARY HISTORY
- The Great Rebellion
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- PAST EVENTS-PRESENT CONDITION
- The Spaulding Tragedy
- Lands Entered by H. L. Ellsworth
- Voting Population
- Railroads
- Other Roads
- Bridges
- Officers of the County
- Township Trustees
- Schools & Schoolhouses
- Newspapers
- Societies & Associations
- Churches
- Sunday Schools
- The Telephone
- Towns
- Town of Fowler
- Town of Raub
- Town of Earl Park
- Town of Templeton
- Town of Boswell
- Town of Ambia
- Talbot & Otterbein
- Murder
- Miscellaneous
- Misc. Acts of the Board
- Benton County Bar
- Pioneers & Their Acts
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