Mercer County - The 19th Century & Before, on CD - Retrospect Pub.

PENNSYLVANIA RETROSPECTIVE CD-ROM SERIES: MERCER COUNTY - THE 19th CENTURY AND BEFORE. 2001 by Retrospect Publishing. This CD-Rom, developed for Windows 95 through XP, will allow you to conduct full text searches, view the images of the original pages, create your own bookmarks and print pages. The books contained in this viewer are: (1) HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY, PA (Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers; 1888) and (2) MERCER COUNTY DIRECTORY FOR 1898 (R.L. Polk & Co., Publishers, 1898). Search for well over 25,000 Mercer County residents from the 1700s to the late 1800s within seconds. You will be able to find a list of men who served in both the War of 1812 and the Civil War from Mercer County, or locate the address of a county resident, or the number of acres of land they farmed in 1898 in the county directory. The 1888 Mercer County History not only includes extensive chapters on county, township and city histories but also a condensed history of the formation and development of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania along with wonderful biographies of residents that often mention from what county or country they came. Whether you are searching for Mercer County taxables for the years 1800 to 1802 or searching for officers of secret societies in 1898 you are bound to learn more about the people and places that comprised Mercer County. ISBN 1-929356-07-2, (1869 pages including a Mercer County map)