Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....York, M. R. 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

M. R. YORK, a farmer of Yolo County, and at present one of the Supervisors, is
the son of Meredith and Martha (Browning) York. His mother was born in Kentucky
in 1805, and died in 1887. His father, born in Tennessee in 1800, was a farmer
and a minister of the Christian Church, and died in 1851. Mr. York, our subject,
was born in Clay County, Tennessee, in 1839, and came to Woodland in 1859, where
he received most of his schooling. At the present time, 1890, he is a County
Supervisor from the fifth district, being elected January 1, 1889. The same year
he erected a beautiful residence upon his farm, which comprises 820 acres of
well improved land, and whereon the principal product is wheat

  Mr. York, November 3, 1867, married Susan Maxwell, a native of Cooper County,
Missouri, and the names of their children are: Mattie, Rhoda, William N. and
Ella. Another child, Maud, died March 29,1884.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.



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