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This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of Missouri. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. Montgomery County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,236. Its county seat is Montgomery City. The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery ,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in New Madrid County, Missouri.= Official Website =New Madrid County was organized on October 1, 1812, as an act of the First General Assembly of the Missouri Territory. A series of more than 1,000 earthquakes struck the area in 1811 and 1812. The New Madrid earthquakes were the strongest non-subduction zone earthquakes in the United Sta...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Newton County, Missouri.= Official Website =The county was organized in 1838 and is named in honor of John Newton, a hero who fought in the Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties * Jasper County * Lawrence County * Barry County * Cherokee County, Kan. * Ottawa County, Okla. * McDonald County Cities *Diamond*Fairview*Granby*Joplin (part)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oregon County, Missouri. Oregon County was created in 1845 and named for the Oregon Territory in the northwestern United States. Home to a large area of the Mark Twain National Forest, Oregon County contains more national forest acreage than any county in the state of Missouri. It also contains the Irish Wilderness, the largest fede...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osage County, Missouri. Official Website The county was organized January 29, 1841, and named for the Osage River. Adjacent Counties Gasconade County Maries County Miller County Cole County Montgomery County Callaway County Cities, Towns & Communities Argyle (part) | Aud | Babbtown | Belle (part) | Bland (part...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ozark County, Missouri. Official Website The county was organized as Ozark County, named after the Ozark Mountains, on January 29, 1841. It was renamed Decatur County, after Commodore Stephen Decatur, from 1843 to 1845, after which the name Ozark County was restored. Adjacent Counties Douglas County Howell County Fulton C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pemiscot County, Missouri. Official Website The county was officially organized on February 19, 1851. It is named for the local bayou, taken from the word pem-eskaw, meaning "liquid mud", in the language of the native Fox (Meskwaki) people. Adjacent Counties New Madrid County Lake County, Tenn. Dyer County, Tenn. Missis...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Perry County, Missouri. Official Website The county was officially organized on November 16, 1820 (effective January 1, 1821) and was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero of the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Jackson County, I'll Cape Girardeau County Randolph County, I'll Union County, I'll Madison County ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Platte County, Missouri. Official Website The county was organized December 31, 1838, from the Platte Purchase, named for the Platte River. (Platte is derived from the French word for a low, shallow, or intermittent stream.) Adjacent Counties Leavenworth County, Kan. Wyandotte County, Kan. Atchison County, Kan. Buchana...
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Please add profiles from those who were born, lived or died in Ray County, Missouri. Official Wesbite The county was organized November 16, 1820 and named for John Ray, a Missouri state legislator and member of the first state Constitutional Convention. Adjacent Counties Lafayette County Jackson County Carroll County Clinton County Caldwell County Clay County Cities & Vil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Reynolds County, Missouri. The county was officially organized on February 25, 1845 and was named in honor of former Governor of Missouri Thomas Reynolds. The Reynolds County Courthouse has burned twice. The first time was in December 1863 when the Confederate army burned it. A new courthouse was built in the fall of 1867 on the sam...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Saline County, Missouri. History Saline County was organized by European-American settlers on November 25, 1820 and was named from the salinity of the springs found in the region. After periods of conflict as settlers competed for resources and encroached on their territory, the local Native Americans, including the Osage nation, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schuyler County, Missouri. The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named for General Philip Schuyler, delegate to the Continental Congress and U.S. Senator from New York. Adjacent Counties Appanoose County, Iowa Davis County, Iowa Scotland County Putnam County Adair County Cities, Villages & Communities ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Shannon County, Missouri. Official Website The county was officially organized on January 29, 1841, and was named in honor of George F. "Peg-Leg" Shannon, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Missouri's first copper mine was opened in Shannon County in 1846 and Missouri's only manganese mine was opened here during World War ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. Official Website History Founded around 1740 by Canadian settlers and migrants from settlements in the Illinois Country just east of the Mississippi River, Ste. Geneviève is the oldest permanent European settlement in Missouri. It was named for Saint Genevieve (who lived in the 5th century AD), the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stoddard County, Missouri. The county was officially organized on January 2, 1835, and is named for Amos Stoddard, the first American commandant (an early term for "governor") of Upper Louisiana. Adjacent Counties Scott County Cape Girardeau County New Madrid County Dunklin County Butler County Wayne County Bolling...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Stone County, Missouri. The county was officially organized on February 10, 1851, and is named after William Stone, an English pioneer and an early settler in Maryland who also served as Taney County Judge. Adjacent Counties Carroll County, Arkansas Taney County Barry County Lawrence County Christian County Cities...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Taney County, Missouri. Official Website Taney County was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for delivering the infamous majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Adjacent Counties Christian County Ozark County ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Missouri. The county was organized on January 5, 1833; it was named for General Joseph Warren, who died in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Lincoln County St. Charles County Franklin County Gasconade County Montgomery County Cities, Villages & Communiti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Missouri. The county was officially organized on August 21, 1813, and was named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Adjacent Counties Franklin County Jefferson County St. Francois County Iron County Crawford County Cities, Villages & Townships Belgrade ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scotland County, Missouri. Official Website History The Missouri General Assembly organized Scotland County on January 29, 1841. Stephen W. B. Carnegy suggested that the county be named after his native Scotland. He also gave several settlements in the area Scottish names. The first white settlement in Scotland County was in 1833...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Missouri. The county was organized January 5, 1835, and named for Ezekiel Polk, American soldier, pioneer and the paternal grandfather of President James Knox Polk. Adjacent Counties Hickory County Dallas County Greene County Dade County St. Clair County Cedar County Cities & Villages Aldrich ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Vernon County, Missouri. Official Website The county was organized on February 27, 1855, considerably later than counties in the eastern part of the state. It was named for Colonel Miles Vernon (1786–1867), a state senator and veteran of the Battle of New Orleans.[4] This was part of the large historic territory of the Osage Nation ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sullivan County, Missouri. The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for Major General John Sullivan of the American Revolutionary War. During the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865), a Union Army post stood in Milan. The Union cause was supported by four Union volunteer infantry regiments, two Union cavalry volunteer regiments, t...