Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders
Lake County Illinois





Originally published Prairie Farmer Publishing Company, Chicago IL, 1917, 142 pp. This is a reproduction on CD and is searchable.

Farm directories can be a gold mine of information for the genealogist. This one contains:
  • Farmers Directory - This contains the name of farmer, spouse with her maiden name, name of children, how many acres farmed, owns or rents the land and the year farmer moved to the county. Often this is the year the farmer was born.
  • Ads
  • Breeders Directory - in order by type of livestock.
  • Business Directory - for each small town.
  • Articles on farming.

Lake County is in northern Illinois just north of Cook county. The county seat is Waukegan and other towns are Antioch, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bannockburn, Beach Park, Buffalo Grove, Channel Lake, Deerfield, Deer Park, Forest Lake, Fox Lake, Fox Lake Hills, Fox River Grove, Gages Lake, Grandwood Park, Grayslake, Green Oaks, Gurnee, Hainesville, Hawthorn Woods, Highland Park, Highwood, Indian Creek, Ingleside, Island Lake, Kildeer, Lake Barrington, Lake Bluff, Lake Catherine, Lake Forest, Lake Villa, Lake Zurich, Lakemoor, Libertyville, Lincolnshire, Lindenhurst, Long Grove, Long Lake, Mettawa, Mundelein, North Barrington, North Chicago, Old Mill Creek, Park City, Port Barrington, Riverwoods, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Park, Third Lake, Tower Lakes, Venetian Village, Vernon Hills, Volo, Wadsworth, Waucond and Winthrop Harbor.

About the CD: This CD provides the genealogist the opportunity to have access to information from a book that is difficult to locate in the used book market. The CD was made by scanning an original copy of the book. Any defect such as notes in the margin or light text will also appear in the CD version. The CD requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file, the latest Windows version is included with the CD. The Mac & Window readers can also be downloaded from the Adobe website. The information on the CD can either be printed out and read in the traditional manner or viewed with your computer. When viewing on your screen the page size can be increased to make reading easier. This CD is not search-able but has a series of bookmarks making navigation through the file easier. The CD is packaged in a projective sleeve.

CD# = IL91
Price=$10.99

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