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Books

Local and family history publications featuring Greene County, Pennsylvania. Visit a Greene County library to see these books or take the catalog entries to your local library to request an inter library loan. If books are digitized, links are included.

Selected Bibliography

This guide is intended to increase awareness and access to the broad range of topics covered by Greene County, Pennsylvania publications. Highlighted here are a selection of family and local history topics. This list is by no means complete. We encourage you to visit the Cornerstone Genealogical Society library in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, to explore thousands of titles and additional resources related to these subjects.

African American

Early African American Life in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania by Marlene Bransom and William Allen Davison
Publication Date: 2002

Atlas

Caldwell's Illustrated, Historical, Centennial Atlas of Greene County, Pennsylvania by J. A. Caldwell
Publication Date: 1876

Available to view online.

Business

Failure of the Farmers and Drovers National Bank of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by David Kent Fonner
Publication Date: 1980

Available to view online.

Cemeteries

Cemetery records of Greene County, Pennsylvania by Dorothy T. Hennen
Publication Date: 1975-1980

v. 1. Aleppo Township -- v. 2. Center Township -- v. 3. Cumberland Township -- v. 4. Dunkard Township -- v. 5. Franklin and Morris Townships -- v. 6. Freeport, Jackson, and Springhill Townships -- v. 7. Gilmore and Wayne Townships -- v. 8. Greene, Monongahela Townships -- v. 9. Jefferson Township -- v. 10. Morgan, Washington Townships -- v. 11. Gray, Richhill Townships -- v. 12. Perry, Whiteley Townships -- v. 13. Master index.

City and Telephone Directories

American Agriculturalist Farm Directory of Greene County, Pennsylvania: A Rural Directory and Reference Book Including a Road Map of Greene County
Publication Date: 1916

Available to view online.
White and Yellow Pages – Waynesburg and vicinity | Library of Congress
Publication Date: June 1952 through June 1966

Available to view online.

Civil War

All Quiet on the Border: The Civil War Era in Greene County, Pennsylvania by D. Kent Fonner
ISBN: 9798844033339

Publication Date: 2022
Intimidating the Disaffected: Resisting Rebels, Deserters, and Copperheads in Greene County, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865 by D. Kent Fonner
ISBN: 9798844008184

Publication Date: 2022
M. L. Gordon’s Experience’s in the Civil War by Marquis Lafayette Gordon
Publication Date: 1922

Available to view online.
Memorial Day (1910): G. A. R. Souvenir Program, Waynesburg, Pa.
Publication Date: 1910

Available to view online.
Memorial Day Souvenir Programme (1908): J. F. M'Cullough Post 367, G. A. R.
Publication Date: 1908

Available to view online.
Such Hard and Severe Service: The 85th Pennsylvania in the Civil War by Dan Clendaniel
Publication Date: 2019-2021

2 volumes

County Records

Greene County, Pennsylvania Birth Registers by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2001

Available to view online. (Volume 1: 1893-1903 | Volume 2: 1904-1915)
Greene County, Pennsylvania Death Register by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2001

Available to view online. (Volume 1: 1893-1902 | Volume 2: 1903-1915)
Greene County, Pennsylvania Will Index by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2002

Available to view online. (Volume 1: 1796-1961 | Volume 2: 1962-2002)
Index to Greene County, Pennsylvania Marriage Books 1-20 (1885-1929) by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2008

Available to view online.
Index to Greene County, Pennsylvania Quarter Sessions Docket No. 1 (1797-1803) by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2001

Available to view online.
Inventory of the County Archives of Pennsylvania | Issue 30 - Greene County by Historical Records Survey of Pennsylvania (Works Projects Administration)
Publication Date: 1940

Available to view online.
Occupation and Personal Property Assessment of Females in Greene County, Pennsylvania for the Year 1920 by James Fordyce, compiler
Publication Date: 2008

Available to view online. (Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 )

Land Records

Early Landowners of Pennsylvania. Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Greene County, PA by Sharon Cook MacInnes, Angus MacInnes
ISBN: 9781558564466

Publication Date: 2005

Local Histories

A Village Called Brave: A History of Brave, Pennsylvania by James Michael Hoy
Publication Date: 2009
Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania by John W. Jordan
Publication Date: 1912

Available to view online. (Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 )
History of Greene County, Pa. by Rev. William Hanna
Publication Date: 1882

Available to view online.
History of Greene County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates
Publication Date: 1888

Available to view online.
History of Greene County Pennsylvania by G. Wayne Smith
ISBN: 0930284704

Publication Date: 1996
The Horn Papers: Early Westward Movement on the Monongahela and Upper Ohio, 1765-1795 by William Franklin Horn
Publication Date: 1945

Available to view online. See Horn Papers: Forged Local History | Library of Congress for historical context related to the fabricated history contained in Volumes 1 and 2.
Pioneer History of Greene County, Pennsylvania by L. K. Evans
Publication Date: 1941

Available to view online.
The Post Offices of Greene County by G. Wayne Smith
Publication Date: 2000
The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley by Howard L. Leckey
Publication Date: 1977

A sample set of pages from one of the editions of this book may be viewed online through Google Books.
The Waynesburg Commons and Parks by G. Wayne Smith
ISBN: 9780970689528

Publication Date: 2004
Westward of Ye Laurall Hills, 1750-1850 by Helen E. Vogt
ISBN: 0870122266

Publication Date: 1989

Newspapers

Waynesburg Republican - Centennial Edition
Publication Date: 1896

Available to view online.
Woman's Centennial Paper 1796-1896, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
Publication Date: 1896

Available to view online.

Pictorial Histories

Around Greensboro by Michele Buday-Murray
ISBN: 1467122645

Publication Date: 2015
Cumberland Township and Carmichaels by Shelley McMinn Anderson
ISBN: 1467124575

Publication Date: 2017
Waynesburg by Glenn J. R. T. Toothman III; Candice L. Buchanan
ISBN: 1467122785

Publication Date: 2015
Waynesburg Prosperous and Beautiful by Fred High
ISBN: 0870121561

Publication Date: 1906 (Reprinted 1973)

Available to view online.

Waynesburg & Washington Railroad

Narrow Gauge in Southwestern Pennsylvania: The Waynesburg & Washington Railroad by James D. Weinschenker
Publication Date: 2003
Three Feet on the Panhandle by Larry L. Koehler; Casey Holtzinger (Illustrator); Robert W. Richardson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0912113006

Publication Date: 1983
The Waynesburg and Washington Railroad: Second Number 4 by James D. Weinschenker
Publication Date: 2014

Waynesburg College

Early Coeducational Institution as Matchmaker: A Study of Romantic Attachments at Waynesburg College 1850-1875 | Western Pennsylvania History by Candice Buchanan
Publication Date: 2008

Available to view online.
A Waynesburg College Family: The Legacy of Alfred Brashear & Margaret Kerr (Bell) Miller by Candice Buchanan
ISBN: 1495458067

Publication Date: 2015
The Waynesburg College Story, 1849-1974 by William H. Dusenberry
ISBN: 0873381734

Publication Date: 1975

World War I

History of the 110th Infantry (10th Pa.) of the 28th Division, U. S. A., 1917-1919
Available to view online.
Memorial Services and Dedication of Tablet, Company K, 110th (10th Pa.) Infantry, Waynesburg, Pa., Sunday, May 30, 1920
Publication Date: 1920

Available to view online.
Our Fallen 58: World War I Soldiers of Greene County, Pennsylvania by Candice L. Buchanan; Glenn J. R T. Toothman
ISBN: 1726744299

Publication Date: 2018
The Rain Day Boys: The Greene That Lay Near Grimpettes Woods by Candice Buchanan; Glenn Toothman
ISBN: 1977868428

Publication Date: 2017
The Rain Day Boys: The Greene That Lay Near Grimpettes Woods | Western Pennsylvania History by Candice L. Buchanan and Glenn J. R. T. Toothman III
Publication Date: 2017-2018

Available to view online.
The Twenty-eighth Division, Pennsylvania's Guard in the World War by Edward Martin
Publication Date: 1923-1924

Available to view online. (Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 ).
Volume 2 includes the 110th Infantry, in which many Greene County men were enlisted.
The Waynesburg Republican: Greene County Soldiers' Edition
Publication Date: 1919

Available to view online.

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