Galena Images on the Illinois Digital Archives

Galena Gazette & Galena Tribune Newspapers on the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection

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1.  FEDERAL, STATE AND TERRITORIAL CENSUSES ON  MICROFILM:

• Jo Daviess County, Illinois: Federal: 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 (all indexed)
• State: 1855, 1865 (indexed)
• Carroll County, Illinois Federal: 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
• Stephenson County, Illinois Federal: 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870
• Grant County, Wisconsin Federal: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
• Lafayette County, Wisconsin Federal: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
• Iowa County, Wisconsin Federal: 1850, 1860, 1880, 1910
• Dubuque County, Iowa Federal: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
• Jackson County, Iowa Federal: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
• Michigan Territory 1830
• Wisconsin Territory 1840

2.  PRINTED INDEXES TO TERRITORIAL AND FEDERAL  CENSUSES

• Illinois: 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850
• Wisconsin: 1836, 1850
• Iowa:  1836, 1850

3. NEWSPAPERS

• GALENA WEEKLIES:
  • Northwestern Gazette & Galena Advertiser    1834 – 1846
  • Weekly Northwestern Gazette    1846 – 1864
  • Galena Weekly Gazette    1864 – 1954
  • Galena Gazette & Advertiser    1955 – 1957
  • Galena Gazette    1958 – present
  • Miners’ Journal    1829 – 1830
  • Galenian    1834 – 1836
  • Galena Industrial Press    1874 – 1889
  • Semi-Weekly Galena Jeffersonian    1845 – 1847
  • Galena Weekly Tribune    1905 – 1906
• GALENA DAILIES:
  • Galena Gazette & Advertiser    1848 – 1864
  • Galena Daily (& Evening) Gazette    1864 – 1953
  • Galena Daily Jeffersonian    1851 – 1853
  • Galena Daily Courier    1856 – 1861
  • Galena Daily Tribune    1905 – 1906
• OTHER JO DAVIESS COUNTY, ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS:
  • Elizabeth Weekly News    1915 – 1938
  • Elizabeth Times    1937 – 1955
  • East Dubuque Register    1894 – 1941
  • Hanover Journal    1896 – 1913
  • Stockton Herald    1888 – 1919
  • Stockton Herald News    1920 – 1940
  • Warren Independent    1857 – 1864
  • Warren Weekly Sentinel    1864 – 1882
  • Warren Sentinel    1882 – 1899
  • Warren Sentinel Leader    1899 – 1949

**NOTE: While the files of the Galena newspapers are virtually intact, those of the other county papers may contain significant gaps.

4. CEMETERY READINGS

A file of tombstone readings (up to approx. 1980) for the principal cemeteries of Jo Daviess County is maintained. The following townships are represented:

DUNLEITH, MENOMINEE, VINEGAR HILL, COUNCIL HILL, SCALES MOUND, APPLE RIVER, WARREN, RAWLINS, WEST GALENA, EAST GALENA, GUILFORD, THOMPSON, RUSH, NORA, RICE, ELIZABETH, WOODBINE, WARD’S GROVE, HANOVER, DERINDA, PLEASANT VALLEY, BERREMAN, STOCKTON

**NOTE: Readings for Carroll and Stephenson Counties, Illinois are also in the collection.

5. JO DAVIESS COUNTY VITAL RECORD INDEXES

• County marriages:  1828 – 1904
• County births:  1878 – 1985
• County deaths:  1877 – 1985
• County probate: scattered

6. CHURCH RECORDS ON MICROFILM

Galena Churches represented:  St. Michael’s Catholic, St. Matthew’s Lutheran, St. John’s Lutheran, Galena Methodist, First Presbyterian

7. GALENA PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

• City Directories:
  • 1847 – 1848
  • 1848 – 1849
  • 1854
  • 1855 – 1856
  • 1858 – 1859
  • 1861 (business)
  • 1868 – 1869
  • 1868 (business)
  • 1873 – 1874
  • 1900
  • 1902 – 1903 (business)
  • 1914
  • 1917 (farm)
  • 1953
• Maps:   Plat maps, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Tax and block books:  1838 – 1876
• Miscellaneous city records: ledgers, financial records, claim books,
• City Council proceedings, license applications, etc.
• Photographs: A limited number in the library collection.
• County tax collector’s books (all townships): 1853 – 1900; 1913 – 1942

8. COUNTY HISTORIES AND PLAT MAPS

• Jo Daviess County Histories: 1878; 1904
• Jo Daviess County Biographical Album:  1889
• Jo Daviess County Plat Maps:  1872; 1893; 1913; 1936; 1942; 1954; 1958; 1963; 1966; 1986; 1990; 1997

9. INDIVIDUAL TOWNSHIP OR COMMUNITY HISTORIES

• Histories of Galena, Apple River, Hanover, Elizabeth, Stockton, Scales Mound, East Dubuque, Early Settlers of Warren, et.al.

10. REGIONAL HISTORY SOURCES…PRIMARY AND SECONDARY (ARRANGED BY SUBJECT)

• U.S. Grant and the Civil War: papers of U.S. Grant; sundry biographies of Grant and other Galena military men; rosters of all Illinois Civil War regiments; regimental histories
• Steamboating: Original steamboat registers; Packet directories, 1848 – 1983; sundry histories and reminiscences
• Lead mining: Smith & McKnight Papers (original Federal mining records of the 1820s and 1830s); geologic maps and reports; histories
• Black Hawk War: Rosters and miscellaneous papers; histories
• Railroads: Books and papers dealing with those lines serving Galena and Jo Daviess County

11. COLLECTION OF THE JO DAVIESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• Collection of primary source materials ranging from diaries to store ledgers; Kathryn Oestreich Collection of Galena city records; Congressman Leo Allen Collection; et.al.

12. FAMILY HISTORIES

• Large collection of family histories and genealogical charts, donated by researchers who have utilized the facility. All deal with families of Galena and Jo Daviess County.

13. JO DAVIESS COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS

• Indexed and on microfilm for the years 1828-1844.