Welcome to the Putnam County Historical Society and Genealogical Society.

Volunteers

We can use volunteers to help do many things at the museum including cutting and pasting newspaper articles into albums! Any help would be appreciated. Stop in or call (660) 947-2955.

History of PC historical society and museum

Click to learn more about the Putnam County Historical Society and Museum. Membership Form is attached.

History of the PC Historical Society and Museum (pdf)

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Genealogy Lookups

Are you working on your family tree? Call us at (660) 947-2955 or email at pchs@nemr.net to see if we can help you.

Putnam County Genealogical Society

Learn more about the history of the PC Genealogical Society

PC Genealogical Society History (pdf)

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1888 History Bios. These are scans of the 1888 History Book

Click on a file to download.

biographicalindex (pdf)

pages1036-1047 (pdf)

pages1048-1057 (pdf)

pages1058-1067 (pdf)

pages1068-1077 (pdf)

pages1078-1087 (pdf)

pages1088-1097 (pdf)

pages1098-1107 (pdf)

pages1108-1117 (pdf)

pages1118-1127 (pdf)

pages1128-1135 (pdf)

PC Newspaper Collection

The Putnam County Public Library now has a Digital Version of the Entire PC Newspaper Collection. This is thanks to a generous donation in memory of Barbara Wickless PhD, by her family.

Newspaper Collection