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Brief History of Randolph County: wikiwand

Books and Biographies
Book Assortment: Crime, Biography, Medical
There are  download links for Archive.org & Google E Book Items

"The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States"
Edited By:
William B Atkinson, M D: Author of "Hints in the Obstertic Procedure," etc...
Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878
There are three Indexes, "Alpha", "Local" & "Analytical" The two most useful are Alpha and Local
The Indexes are Here
The Book can be read online or downloaded.

"Woman's Who's Who of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada
1914-1915: John William Leonard, Editor-in-Chief
New York: The American Commonwealth Company
There is no Alpha Index, instead the Authors saw fit to make one that is titled: "Her Married Name".
There is an Addenda - Corrections set of pages.
The Bios are listed Alphabetically.
The Addenda and 'Married Name'
The book can be read online or downloaded

"Men of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
Edited By: John W Leonard
L R Hamersly & Company
One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1908
There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical :
Google Books: Read Online or Download

"Men and Women of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
L R Hamersly & Company
One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1910
Copyright 1909 By
L R Hamersly & Company, New York
There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical
Read Online or Download

"The American Bar"
The Professional Directory of
Lawyers of the World
Sarah Livermore: Editor
Sixty-Second Annual Edition: 1980
Published by:
Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates, Inc
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Please use this link for the Missouri Section

"Professional Criminals of America"
By
Thomas Byrnes
Inspector of Police and Chief of Detectives: New York City
Cassell & Company, Limited
739 & 741 Broadway, New York
Copyright, 1886 By Thomas Brynes
The Index is Here
Read Online or Download [FS]

"Who's What and Why in Missouri: 1959"
Published by
Historical Record Association
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
There is no TOC or Index
The Biographies are listed Alphabetically in the Book
Family Search has the Book: Use This Link

"Reminiscences Of The Bench and Bar of Missouri"
With an Appendix
Containing Biographical Sketches...
By: W V N Bay
St Louis
F H Thomas and Company: 1878
Please Use this Link for the Index and  Appendix
Read Online or Download

"The Bench and Bar Of
St Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City
and Other Missouri Cities"
Biographical Sketches With Steel Engraved Portraits
St Louis and Chicago:
American Biographical Publishing Company
H C Cooper Jr & Co., Proprietors, 1884
Please use this link for the Index
Read Online or Download

"History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri
With Reminiscences of the ..."
A J D Stewart, Editor
Illustrated
St Louis, Mo
The Legal Publishing Company: 1898
Press of Little & Becker Printing Co.,
St Louis, MO.
Please use this link for the Index
Read Online or Download

"History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri"
St Louis: National Historical Company, 1884 
There is no Index. Read Online or Download
Transcription: History of SugarCreek Township

Page Numbers for the Biographies are listed below:
The Township Chapters contain the Bio's
History of Randolph & Macon Counties: 1884

Sugar Creek Township 381-438 ~ Salt Spring Township 438-536
Prairie Township 536-577 ~ Silver Creek Township 577-606
Union Township 606-616 ~ Clifton Township 616-629
Chariton Township 629-642 ~ Cairo Township 642-669
Moniteau Township 669-685~ Salt River Township 685-691
Jackson Township 691-699

Chapter XIII.
Crimes, Suicides, Incidents.
First and Second Executions which occurred in the County under Sentence of Law -
Melancholy Affair-A Man Shot and Killed near Moberly - The Murder-Peter Casper - Woman Shot and Man Hung - Railroad Collision - The last of Corlew, the Ravisher - James Hayden Brown Pays the Penalty of his Crime - Brown's
Wife Commits Suicide -Murder most Foul - Distressing Fatal Accident - James A. Wright Commits Suicide.

"Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Missouri"
C O Owen and Co, Chicago, 1895
Index is Here ~ Read Online or Download

"History of Randolph County, Missouri"
Alexander H Waller, Historical Publishing company, Topeka / Cleveland, 1920
Index is Here ~ Read Online or Download

"History of Northwest Missouri"
Vol III
Edited by Walter Williams
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1915
The Index is Here ~ Read Online or Download [archive.org]

"Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography "
by Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914; Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Publication date 1900 
'Wiki Review' ~ Archive.org [All Volumes]

Historic Missourians, Towns and Forts, and...
George Caleb Bingham ~ Old Settler's Association: 1897
"Gone but not forgotton" ~ Missouri Pioneer Site
The Forts of Missouri ~ FS Films of MO Forts: Chart
Missouri History - Provincial Period

"Missouri Pioneers, County and Genealogical Records"; 30 Volumes
Created by:
Hodges, Nadine ~ Vineyard, John, Mrs. ~ Woodruff, Audrey Lee Wagner, 1913 - 1996
[Books - FS Catalog - Log In, Search: Use Nadine Hodges ]

Here are the Vols which contain information for Randolph County
Vol 16: Pgs 17, 18 , 34
Vol 20: Pgs 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 31, 34
Vol 23: Pgs 50, 51, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63
Vol 28: Pg 81


Maps
Interactive Atlas ~ Randolph County Plat Map Book: 1925
1876 Historical Atlas
Randolph County Historical Atlas & Plat Book: 1910, Ogle
"Map Geeks" State and Township Maps ~ Getty Geographical Thesaurus
Bureau of Land Management ~ Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Scroll Down]
USGS Maps for Missouri ~ Missouri State and Regional Maps
Historical Maps: Perry Castaneda ~ Quadrangles ~ Surveyor's Base Maps
Library of Congress: Miscellaneous Maps
MapGoose And Google Earth Pro [Download Link]

Randolph County Cities ~ Villages ~ Unincorporated Communities


Interested in other Missouri Counties?
Here is a map with clickable links


"Old Randolph County Files"
Family Photos: Please use this link
Moberly Highschool: Alumni / "Notes"
Moberly Highschool: 1913, Yearbook
'Doctors of Randolph County'
Moberly's Fourth Street Theatre. News Article
History of SilverCreek Township
Words from the Past: Part 1 ~ Part 2 [Family Letters]
"Larry Sumpter's Database: Death and Cemetery Records"
The above seems to have been a project whereby folks sent in family information and Larry compiled and posted it.
I have tried to find a current email addy for Larry without success.
So... the files are "as is" and will not be updated or corrected.
Any email addies found in the files will not work, these records are over 15 years old.
A - F ~ G - K ~ L - P ~ Q - T ~ U - Z


Queries and Lookups
If you wish to post Genealogical Queries online,
Please Check Cyndi's List for Groups

Lookups:
There was a nice list of lookups on the old pages, unfortunately, all the email addies were invalid - I could not find the original Volunteers.

So... I am the only one available for lookups:

I havd access to the following Subscription
Databases [Library Editions]
Heritage Hub [Includes NewsBank]
For more Info and Contents ~ Contact Martha

If you have access to local records and are willing to help out,
please send along a note: Martha [MOGenWeb Volunteer]

'History Hub' = New Lookup Service
Search for Living People: Zaba Search
And RAOGK
Local Historical, Museum, and Genealogical Agencies and [Research Requests]
The above list has local resources, web pages and information that may help with research.
MO Digital Heritage: Genealogical Collections


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31 March 2025
"Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association"
by: Missouri State Medical Association
Issues: January 1904 - December 2000 [Archived]
Link to all of the Issues

In an effort to make this interesting set of Medical Journals
available for Missouri Genealogical and Historical Researchers, I am
trying to figure out how the Content is structured and what might be
the best way of presentation.

There are 97 issues on the Archive.org Site. All of which can be viewed, searched and downloaded.
Volumes 1-49 (June 1904-1952) of the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association
and
 50-97 (1953-2000) of Missouri Medicine are available online.

The best way to inspect the Content is to take a look at an Index.
Here are the Index pages for the 1904 Issue:
https://archive.org/details/journal1190miss/page/718/mode/2up

Genealogocal Research always includes the search for both Biographies and Obituaries.
Fortunately for us, these Journals have both!
But... over the years, the Editors change the way they are listed.
The first 5 or 6 years have Obituaries listed on Page Numbers, no names in the Index.

About 1908 or 1909, They began listing Obits by Name in the Index, Like This:
https://archive.org/details/journal6190miss/page/827/mode/1up

A generic Search: 'Obituary' will bring up Items
https://ia903108.us.archive.org/17/items/journal1719miss/journal1719miss.pdf

A generic Search: 'Deceased' will bring up Items
https://ia903108.us.archive.org/17/items/journal1719miss/journal1719miss.pdf

Individual Searches for Names will always work.
"Jones", for Instance [Without the Quotes
https://ia903108.us.archive.org/17/items/journal1719miss/journal1719miss.pdf

In the later years, the Medical Journals did not contain many full Obituaries,
instead they included what I call "Embellished Death Notices" under the heading "In Memoriam":

 Like This
Barbara Spies, MD, 73,
Louisburg, KS, died November 9,1996. Dr. Spies graduated fromthe University of Kansas Medical
School in 1952, interned at Menorah Hospital, practiced in Kansas. From 1978 until she
retired in June of 1987, she practiced in Louisburg.
January 1997 Issue

The Missouri Journals also have Membership Information, County Rosters, Changes of Address
and "News Items" which are always interesting.

Using the Tutorial I have written will give you an idea on how to use the
valuable files on the Archive Site.


There is a great site that has all sorts of links to free Historical and Genealogical Data
"The Ancestor Hunt"
Digital Newspapers ~ Year Books & Alumni Books School Records ~ Obituaries ~ Coroner, Mortuary & Cemetery Records
BMD's ~ Birth & Marriage Records ~ Divorce & Death Records ~ Probate & Tax Records ~ Institutional & Military Records  Naturalizations & Immigration ~ Criminal & Digital Archives ~ Directories ~ Photos & Voter Records
Scroll down, left side has the menu


Family Search Collections
Family Search continues to add Resources to their "Collections"
They can be overwhelming to start, but are worth diving into.
Here is the Link for all of the Collections for Missouri


Randolph County Obituaries
Heritage Hub, Subscription Database
Missouri and Kansas Newspapers
Updated to 31 December 2023
Please use this link for an index
Lookups Available: Contact Martha [MOGenWeb Volunteer]
Send Names and possible Dates of interest

Obituary Collection:
Obituary Indexes from the Legacy Collection of Jose Rivera Nieves
 Note: There are no Indexes for Randolph County, but there are some for her Neighbors:
Audrain ~ Boone
Here is the Index for all of Missouri
Here is the Index for the United States
Here is an index for Countries of the World

Note:
Many of the Obituaries might be found using Heritage Hub Digital Newspaper Collection
which is available in many local Public Libraries.
Check your local Library under 'Resources' - Access requires a Library Card