Bio of YERXA, Dwight Keyes (b.1881), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 570-573
DWIGHT KEYES YERXA
Dwight Keyes Yerxa, who in September, 1923, will enter upon the duties of
general manager of the new plant of the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company now under
construction at Buffalo, New York, was born in Minneapolis, October 24, 1881,
and is a son of M. W. and Louise E. (Keyes) Yerxa. The father, a native of
Fredericton, New Brunswick, was born March 26, 1846, while the mother's birth
occurred in Hillsboro, Ohio. They came to Minneapolis in 1878 and Mr. Yerxa was
the first state inspector of grain in Minnesota. He was a charter member
of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce and a pioneer in the grain trade. In
Masonry he held high rank, becoming a Knight Templar, and his club affiliations
were with the Minneapolis and the Lafayette Clubs. He passed away in March,
1907, and is survived by his widow and three children.
Dwight K. Yerxa was educated in the Merriam Park public school of St. Paul, with
a final two years in the graded schools of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Central
high school of Minneapolis. He afterward entered the University of Minnesota,
where he remained a student for three and a half years, pursuing a course in
civil engineering.
Mr. Yerxa left college in February, 1904, and spent about a year thereafter in
Cuba and the Isle of Pines. He became actively connected with the grain
busi­ness as a clerk and bookkeeper in the employ of the Morse Grain Company
and; later he entered the service of the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company as a
traveling salesman, his territory covering Minnesota. Six months later he was
given charge of the sales of the state of Wisconsin and subsequently his
jurisdiction was extended to cover Wisconsin, upper Michigan, Minnesota and
North Dakota. In August, 1910, he was made manager of the Pittsburgh branch" at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, continuing with the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company
until August, 1914, when he resigned to become one of the officers and
incorporators of the firm of Yerxa, Andrews & Thurston, Incorporated. This
company began operations in September, 1914, and the business was maintained
successfully until March, 1922, when it was sold out. Mr. Yerxa then again
became identified with the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company as eastern sales
manager and, as above stated, will assume the duties of general manager of the
new plant at Buffalo, New York, in September, 1923.
Mr. Yerxa was connected with the military service of the country during the
World war and was in the officers' training school at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, in
October, 1918, receiving his discharge on the 3d of December of that year,
following the signing of the armistice.
On the 22d of November, 1910, Mr. Yerxa was married to Miss Lelia G. Winston, a
daughter of Fendall G. Winston of Minneapolis and they now have three children:
Dwight Keyes, Jr., Fendall W. and Lelia Louise. Mr. Yerxa is a member of the
Masonic fraternity and of the Psi Upsilon, a national college fraternity. He has
membership in the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette Clubs and had gained many
warm friends through his social qualities, which have their root in a genial
manner and unfeigned cordiality. Mr. Yerxa has hardly yet reached the prime of
life but already occupies a commanding position in milling circles of the
northwest, his present attainments pointing to still larger successes in the
future.