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Goodspeed Publishing was a publishing company that wrote and published many works on local history and biography in the 1880s.

The works were primarily divided into sections for each county they studied and provide an important snapshot of the lives and the economic situation that existed at that time.

The works are viewed as a significant resource for American genealogists because they contain economic data and personal biographies of many prominent citizens.

Works

The below list is only a few of their works, this is not an exhaustive list

• History of Tennessee. 1886/7
• Industrial Chicago the Manufacturing Interests. 1894
• Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas
• History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford, and Gasconade Counties, Missouri: from the earliest time to the present; 1888.
• History of LaClede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties Missouri. 1889.
• History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton Counties Missouri. 1889.
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas. 1889
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago and St Louis: Goodspeed Brothers, 1890)
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, in 2 vols. 1892
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891)
• A History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana; 1886

External links

• Some of Goodspeed's Histories
• Goodspeed's Tennessee, published in 1886/7