Pioneer Families of the Midwest

This important albeit scarce three-volume collection of family histories pertaining to persons who migrated to the Midwest during the last quarter of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth century is now available in a consolidated edition. Mrs. Walden who privately published these genealogies between 1939 and 1941 has here bridged the earliest known records pertaining to each family so that future researchers might be able to trace their lines with less difficulty. Although the Clearfield edition lacks an index to the work as a whole a complete name index to Volumes 1 and 2 can be found at the end of the second volume. In all the reader will find about 150 allied families and some 7500 Midwestern pioneers treated within these pages. Listed below are the main families covered by Mrs. Walden together with the states in which they settled: Harper of OH PA MO and MI; Rainey of OH IN IL MI MO KS; Boal of OH IA MI MN IN IL and WI; Hope of VA OH MO WI OR WV and IN; Dewees of DE PA OH IN IL and IA; Francis of OH NY IA and OK; Smith of NJ OH IN IL IA and CA; Dorr of CT OH IN IL KS NE and CA; Coe of CT OH IN and IA; Fuller of CT OH IN and MO; Allen of CT OH KS and IL; Pratt of CT and OH; Davis of NH ME OH IN and IA; True of NH OH IA and MO; Argo of DE OH IL and IA; and Plumly of PA OH and IA.