The History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a history of these counties, their cities, towns, etc.; St Joseph, Mo.: National Historical Company, 1882. Ostertag, John A. The History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri. containing . . . biographical sketches . . . statistics . . . history of Missouri.  St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882
(transcribed by Pat O'Dell: genpat@netins.net)
Organization of county
county name, first courts, first marriages, etc.
Early History
Buchanan --Dale --Lincoln --Nishnebotna --Polk --Tarkio --Templeton
Maps
Atchison County -- west side -- middle -- east side
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Portraits
John D. Dopf -- David Rankin
Towns
Bernice City -- Center Point -- Christian City -- Dothan -- Fairfax -- Greenville -- Hazel Grove -- Homer -- Irish Grove -- Kalamazoo -- Langdon -- Linden -- London -- Milton -- Nishnebotna -- Phelps City -- Rock Port -- Scott City -- Sonora -- South Blanchard -- Tarkio -- Union City -- Watson -- Westboro -- Yorktown
Biographicals

Addington, Ambrose Lee Anderson, Henry Argo, Albert Bailey, Alexander Baker, B.G. Baker, Wilber Barkley, John T. Barnhart, William Jackson Bayha, Gustavus Beal, G. Beck, Aquilla Beck, N.W. Beck, Ulysses Behrendsen, Andrew Benedict, William Bertram, William Bird, John V. Bischof, George L. Bixby, George Black, Thompson Blake, C.E. Blevins, Christopher Boesenberg, Herman Botkin, James Botkin, John Bower, William A. Buckham, R.S. Buckham, Richard Buckham, William Bunn, E.R. Busher, John E. Calhoon, Alexander Calvert, William Campbell, Archibald Campbell, James A. Campbell, Robert Campton, William Carmean, Daniel Carpenter, Charles Henry Casey, Albert Casler, Clinton Caudle, H.H. Chamberlain, G.W.E. Chance, Alexander Christian, Anthony Christian, J.C.H. Christian, Louis C. Christian, Robert Cies, George Clark, H. Clark, Thomas Clayton, Henry Coe, Charles W. Collins, Michael S. Colvin, D.A. Cooper, G. Cooper, Harmon Coppage, Alfred Coulter, D.M. Cowick, S.R. Cox, Granville Craig, Andrew Crosly, James O. Culbertson, J.C. Cullin, Thomas Cunnington, William Curfman, Amon Curry, Isaac Curry, William Danforth, Simeon Cummings Daniel, William A. Davenport, Elisha Davis, John Davis, John W. DeArmond, Jacob DeArmond, William Denny, J.J. Deuser, Charles Deuser, George Dixon, Elisha Dopf, John Dickinson; picture Dragoo, Christopher Dragoo, James M. Dragoo, Lawson Drake, George Drake, Joseph Dunham, A.B. Dunham, A.J. Dunlap, James M. Edwards, George Eickholt, William Eilers, John Ellis, Andrew Emmert, Thomas Fellows, Edward Fellows, John Ferguson, John Fike, Thomas Fleming, John Fosket, George H. Foster, Francis Fox, Andrew Fraisher, William Frampton, David Francis, Samuel Franklin, Shade Frede, Joseph B. Jr Freet, James R. Freihofer, George Fullerton, William Garst, Benjamin F. Garst, Frederick Garst, Peter Germann, Daniel Gibson, J.B. Gibson, John S. Gillett, Myron A. Gilson, Joel Golden, James Good, Andrew Good, John Good, Marion McDonald Gorman, Reuben P. Graves, John Gray, J.L. Gray, James Gray, Lemuel Grebe, Martin Greenley, Fred Greer, Madison Grieve, John Hackett, Saul Hicks Hackler, Hiram Hall, George W. Hall, Justus Hall, Sylvester Hamilton, Oliver Hammond, Jesse M. Hanna, John Harmon, George Harrington, William Hatten, Mathew Haught, David Hawkins, George Hawley, Henry W. Haynes, Abraham H. Hays, Nathaniel Hendrick, Daniel Hickey, Henry Hill, A. Hill, Henry Hill, Peter Hindenach, George Hodges, Calaway Holbrook, Francis Holly, David Pinckney Hopkins, Joseph Hopkins, N.O. Hopkins, Nelson O. Jr Horn, Joel Ayers Howell, Charles Howell, James Howendobler, E.E. Hudgens, William Hughes, Jacob Hughes, Stokely Hull, P.H. Hunter, George Hunter, James Hunter, James Hunter, Robert Hunter, Robert T. Hunter, William Hurley, James Hurst, Charles B. Hurst, H.P. Hurst, James Inghram, Uriah Jewell, Samuel P. Johnson, Ezra Johnson, James Johnston, George Jones, Isaac Barton Jones, John D. Kaiser, Anthony Kelly, Daniel Kime, M. King, William Klaus, George Klinkhart, Charles Knepper, Samuel Kness, John David Kruse, Christian Kyle, Joseph M. Laramore, John Lee, Charles Lee, Eliza Lee, Frank Lee, Martin L. Lemon, Henry Liess, Adam Lininger, Amos Littell, George W.C. Littler, George W. Livingston, Valentine Lotspeich, Lyman Z. Luja, Charles Lutz, Lorentz Lynn, Robert Manson, Allen Mapes, John W. Markley, John Marquis, G.W. Martin, Thomas McAdams, W.M. McCall, Dougal McCalley, William McCartney, James McCaskey, James McColl, D.A. McCollister, John McDaniel, Adolphus McDonnell, Duncan McIntyre, Hugh McKay, Daniel McKay, W.J. McKee, George McMillan, W.J. McTlravey,Thomas Merritt, A.R. Merritt, N.B. Miles, Lewis Miller, C.H. Millier, A.J. Million, Edward Jackson Millsaps, Callaway Mooney, Luke Moore, H.P. Morgan, Daniel B. Morgan, William Henry Morrow, W.D. Moses, Harry Muinch, G.F. Munsell, L.S. Myers, Gould Neal, Albert Needels, Elijah Noblitt, A.S. Noblitt, J.S. Ohl, Sol Oldfield, George Oliver, Thomas Oswald, Henry Patten, Don Payne, Thomas J. Peck, E.E. Penny, Abraham Perry, Aaron Petry, Nicholas Phillips, Isaac Pinnell, George Pinnell, H.J. Poindexter, James Porter, Ambrose Powell, E.F. Prather, James Prather, Silas Prettyman, Samuel Proud, Samuel W. Proud, Timothy H. Proudfit, Andrew Purdum, Jeremiah Purdum, John Quinn, Harvey Quinn, Thomas N. Rahman, James Rainey, Samuel Rankin, D.C. Rankin, David Rankin, Ed Rankin, J.E. Rankin, James Rankin, John Rankin, William Rapp, Charles Reed, George Reitter, Charles Renner, Charles Richards, John Richardson, Watson R. Ridgeway, S.L. Roberson, H.O. Roberts, Henry Robertson, J.R. Robertson, L.M. Rouse, Schuyler Rundle, N.C. Rupe, Bradford Sanborn, Isaac Sawyer, William Scammon, Enoch Scammon, James Scarlett, James Schneider, C. Schoenecke, J.F. Schooler, Ezra Schooler, W.D. Sedwick, Benjamin Seymour, John Seymour, Leander Shackleton, Stephen Shaum, Christian Shaver, Andrew Shepperson, John Shoecraft, James Sliger, James Sliger, Jesse Sly, John Smith, A. Smith, Abner Smith, Edward C. Smith, George Smith, John Snyder, Daniel South, Stephen Spurlock, John Stafford, Richard Steck, George Steck, Michel Steel, B.W. Steffey, Hiram Stevenson, Joshua W. Stevenson, R.M. Stoner, John Strickler, Warren Sutter, William Tardivel, Claudius Taylor, Charles Taylor, Mary Taylor, Reuben Moore Teed, J.W. Thompson, Francis Thompson, Philip A. Thompson, Solomon Timerman, Adam S. Traub, Albert Traub, Frederick Traub, George Trimble, Robert Trout, Jacob Tyson, Joseph Uhlig, Charles Uttivits, N. Van Gundy, Alexander Van Gundy, John Van Gundy, William Van Leuven, William Van Pelt, Cyrus Vanlandingham, N.B. Volkmann, Charles Wade, James Wagor, P.R. Wait, Solomon Waits, Reason Wakefield, Benjamin Walker, Bruce Walter Peter, Sr Walter, Philip Wannschaff, Alfred Warner, Adelbert Washburn, James C. Watts, Lott Watts, Robert Weisenberger, Joseph Wells, John Wheeler, Wesley White, Edward White, Lewis White, Richard Whitmire, David Wilkinson, A.B. Wilkinson, George Williams, David Williams, James H. Williams, Richard Wilson, Lewis E. Wisherd, Edward Woerber, John Wood, Isaac Wood, W.S. Woolsey, John Wright, T.J. Wright, William H. Wyatt, Archibald York, Archibald Young, Joe Hayes Zuck, Elbert Zuck, J.S. Zuck, Washington