By: Goodspeed Publishing Company, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2018; 652 pages, New Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-503-4. The original book was divided into two main sections, The first being the histories of the various counties while the second section concentrated it efforts onto the biographical sketches of the families of these counties. Our reprint only includes the biographical section with a New 107 pages Index. This book contains more than 794 biographical sketches, including some 4,300 additional family members. Also found in this book are the names of some 12,000 other persons prominent in the early history of these nine counties.