History researcher based in Muscatine and Iowa City

Thomas R. Baker, J.D., M.A. (History) is a retired University administrator with a penchant for the history of Iowa, where his family has lived for eight generations. Since the publication of his 2016 book, The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War, he has focused his research on Missouri and Iowa prior to 1875.

Project 1 — Nativity Data

Southern Iowa versus Northern Missouri, 1860

Click here for a Summary of the Methodology Used to Produce the Data

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