Crawford County, Pennsylvania


Published Sources
on local and family history

Chronological Listing
     ABBREVIATION
1848 Map C. E. Weaver, "Map of Crawford County, Pennsylvania" (New York, 1848; rpt. CCo. Hist. Soc., 1982; rpt. CCG 18[1995]:108-9)
1850 Memoirs Alfred Huidekoper, "Incidents in the Early History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania" [dated at Meadville 1 Aug. 1846], Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4 (Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird, 1850), pp. 113-163 [no index]
1865 Map F. W. Beers, "Map of Crawford Co., Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1865)
1871 Directory Jno. M. Arters, comp., Directory of Crawford County, Pa. for 1871-1872, Comprising a List of All Residents, Together with Historical Sketches of the County, ... (Corry, Pa.: By the comp., 1871) [no index]
1874 Gazetteer Hamilton Child, comp., Gazetteer and Business Directory of Crawford County, Pa., for 1874 (Syracuse, N.Y.: By the comp., 1874) [no index]
1876 Atlas Combination Atlas Map of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts, Ensign & Evert, 1876; rpt. n.p., n.pub. [Crawford Co. Hist. Soc.], n.d. [1987], landowner index added) [no (complete) index; see Biography for index to subjects of biographical sketches].
1879 Directory A Complete Directory of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1879-80 (Meadville: Crawford Journal, 1879; rpt. Apollo, Pa.: Closson Press, 1998 [with every name index]), [index to biographies; see Biography for index to subjects of biographical sketches).
1885 History History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Warner, Beers, & Co., 1885; rpt. Evansville, Ill.: Unigraphic, Inc., 1975 [index added]; rpt. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1990 [without index]; see Biography for index to biographical sketches, Part V.)
1888 Tribune-Rep. Centennial Edition of the Daily Tribune-Republican of Saturday Morning, May 12th, 1888 (Meadville: Tribune Publ. Co., 1888; rpt. Meadville: Crawford Co. Hist. Soc., 1983) [index to biographies]
Pioneer Sketches M.P. Sargent, Pioneer Sketches: Scenes and Incidents of Former Days (Erie: Herald Pub. Co., 1891; rpt. Evansville, Ill.: Unigraphic, 1976 [index added]; rpt. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1993)
1899 History Samuel P. Bates, Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County Pennsylvania (n.p. [Boston]: W. A. Ferguson & Co., 1899; rpt. Cochranton Heritage Soc., 1986 [every name index added]; rpt. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1993 [without index?]; see Biography for index to subjects of biographical sketches.)
  Joshua Douglass, "Crawford County," The Twentieth Century Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania, 2 vols. (Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr., Bro. & Co., 1903), pp. 240-57.
1912 Mdvl. Illustrated D. P. Robbins, comp., Historical and Industrial Review of Meadville, Pa. (Meadville: Tribune Publishing Co., 1912) [partial index;; see Biography for index to subjects of (brief) biographical sketches]
Jordan's Western Pa. John W. Jordan, Ed., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, 3 vols. (New York: Lewis Hist. Publ. Co., 1915) [index to biographies].  Note:  This source covers all of western Pennsylvania.
Higby's Townville Mary Ann Bigwell Higby, The First Hundred Years of Townville and Vicinity (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., 1924; rpt. Titusville, 1976) [no index; see Biography for index to families.
Reynolds, In French ... John Earle Reynolds, In French Creek Valley (Meadville: CCo. Hist. Soc., 1938; rpt. Meadville: Crawford Co. Hist. Soc., 1981) [index]
  Mary Chapin Weaver White, Annals of Lyons Hollow (Indiana, Pa., 1962; rpt. Titusville, 1976) [surname index]
CCG Crawford County Genealogy, 1977 - present [every-name index in each volume; see also Topical Index]
CCo. Cem. Crawford County Pa. Cemetery Inscriptions (Decorah, Iowa: CCo. Genealogical and Hist. Societies, 1982-1989), 4 vols. [indexes]
Ilisevich, Pioneers Robert D. Ilisevich, ed., Pioneers of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1788-1800 (Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 1985) [index]
  Frederick F. Seely [decd.] & Jonathan E. Helmreich, Place Names of Crawford County (Meadville: Crawford Co. Historical Soc., 2nd ed. 1996) [no index, but arranged alphabetically]