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Bibliography

Biographies, Family Histories, and Names

  • Bailey, Sturges W., Mrs. Index to Memorial and Biographical Records and Illustrated Compendium of Biography: Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, 1979.

  • Erber, Audrey. Norwegian Family Histories, 1585-1850: A Peek at the Lives of the Ancestors of Our Families Who Settled in Columbia County, Dane County, and Green County, Wisconsin, in the 19th Century. Oak Park, Ill: Audrey Erber, 2004.

Cemeteries

Census Records and Indexes

Church Records

  • German Methodist Church Records, 1868 Through 1912 for Marriages and Baptisms for the Townships of Westfield, Freedom, City of Baraboo, Sauk County [and] Township of Caledonia, Columbia County. Wis: s.n, 1990s.

Court Records

Deaths and Obituaries

Directories

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History

  • Butterfield, Consul Willshire. The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin Containing an Account of Its Settlement ... Its War Record, Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States. Chicago: Western Historical Co, 1880.

  • Columbia County Historical Society (Wis.). Columbia County History Book. Dallas: Taylor Pub. Co, 1982.

  • Curtiss, Ina. Early Days at the Fox-Wisconsin Portage. Portage, Wisconsin: Columbia County Historical Society, 1981.

  • Jones, James Edwin. A History of Columbia County, Wisconsin: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1914.

  • Leicht, Don M. compiler. Humorous Events of a Century Ago in the Dells Area: Wisconsin Dells, Mauston, New Lisbon, Baraboo, Reedsburg, Portage. Madison, Wisconsin: D.M. Leicht, 19??

  • Turner, Andrew J. The Family Trees of Columbia County, Wisconsin. Portage: Press of the Wisconsin State Register, 1904.

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