Wanda quoting only from my memory which usually gets me in a lot of trouble, the Goodspeed company went through every county in the US and collected information about prominent , or important,or well known people in that area. They usually were handsomely embellished to the point you usually only can believe about half of what it says. Yet it is a very good source of records for people of that time. By reading the book , I found out who my great great Grandparents were ( names) and where they were born where other wise I might never have found this information out. Seems I had a great great Aunt that had married a Judge and it was talking about him in the Goodspeed book and his wife and her parents were mentioned as well. Hope that helps. Betty