What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Hancock County Indiana and its people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1916.

HISTORY

OF

HANCOCK COUNTY

INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

BY GEORGE J. RlCHMAN, B. L.

ILLUSTRATED

 With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

WM. MITCHELL PRINTING CO.

GREENFIELD, IND.

1916

(800 + pages on 1 CD)

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

Table of Contents

Chapter I. Geography, topography, natural resources
Chapter II. Early influences 
Chapter III. The county government 
Chapter IV. County buildings 
Chapter V. General development of the county 
Chapter VI. Education 
Chapter VII. Military Annals
Chapter VIII. Politics 
Chapter IX. Temperance 
Chapter X. Literature and art 
Chapter XI. The Hancock bar 
Chapter XII. The practice of medicine 
Chapter XIII. Blue River Township 
Chapter XIV. Brandywine Township 
Chapter XV. Brown Township 
Chapter XVI. Buck Creek Township 
Chapter XVII. Center Township 
Chapter XVIII. City of Greenfield 
Chapter XIX. Green Township 
Chapter XX. Jackson Township 
Chapter XXI. Sugar Creek Township 
Chapter XXII. Vernon Township 
Chapter XXIII. Fortville