Goodspeed Publishing

Goodspeed Publishing was a publishing company in Chicago, Illinois, that published many works on local American history and biography in the 1880s. The publications were primarily divided into sections for each county they studied.

The Goodspeed publications are viewed as a significant resource for American historians and genealogists because they contain economic data and personal biographies of many prominent American citizens. They provide an important snapshot of the lives and the economic situation of that era.

Selected publications

• History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present, (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing, 1886)
• 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 Northeast Arkansas. 1889.
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas. 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
• History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, State of Indiana, (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers & Co. Publishers, 1884))
• Memorial and Genealogical Record of Texas, (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers & Co. Publishers, 1894)
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers & Co. Publishers, 1891)
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton counties, Nebraska, (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1890)
• History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana, (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1885)
• History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties, Indiana, (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1885)
• Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, Historical and Biographical, (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886)
• The History of Southeast Missouri, (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing, 1886)

External links

• GeneaLinks: Goodspeed's Histories
• Tennessee Records Repository: Goodspeed's Tennessee, published in 1886/7