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Welcome to Putnam
County Missouri Genealogy Research
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Putnam County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Putnam
County Data
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Brief
History:
Putnam County is a
county located in North Central Missouri.
Its county seat is Unionville. The county
was organized
February 28, 1845 and named for
Israel Putnam, a hero in the French
and Indian War and a general in the
American
Revolutionary War.
Putnam County was established
February 28, 1845 from parts of Adair and
Sullivan counties. The following year a
portion
of Putnam was removed to form of
Dodge County. Both Putnam and Dodge
extended nearly nine miles further north
until
an 1851 ruling by the Supreme Court
on a border dispute with Iowa assigned the
contested land to Iowa. Both counties were
left with less than the statutory
minimum area for a county as set by the
state legislature, so Dodge County was
dissolved and
its area added to Putnam.
In its early years, the county seat
changed frequently, often with contentious
debate. Putnamville, Bryant Station (both
no
longer in existence), and
Hartford all served until a central
location called Harmony, later renamed
Unionville, was chosen.
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