History of Allegany County Maryland. to This Is Added a Biographical and Genealogical Record of Representative Families Prepared from Data Obtained

This two-volume county history contains sections devoted to the early settlement of the county and the development of its institutions--political military religious and commercial. More important to the genealogist however is the work's standing as a genealogical and biographical record. Fully the last quarter of Volume I and all of Volume II are devoted to sketches of representative Allegany County persons. Compiled from original sources the more than 1000 biographies provide compendious descriptions of the life and times of the subject.