Bio of Felton, A. Y. Wabasha Co., MN
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Felton, A. Y., manager and sole owner of the creamery at the west end of
the business center is one of the latest business enterprises of the wide
awake town of Plainview. He started this venture with four teams and two
inside factory hands in the spring of 1881, for the making of creamery
butter; and in the fall of the same year added his additional interest as
dealer in dairy butter and eggs. By careful management and liberal
dealings in trade he has been able to increase his number of teams to six,
which are employed in the daily hauling of cream from the neighboring
farmers. From five to six hundred inches is the average daily collection,
and even as high as seven hundred was the return of one single day. For
the greater part of the butter here made a ready market is found at
reasonably good prices in St. Paul, Minneapolis and the Northwest, the
eastern markets receiving the balance. Mr. Felton originally came from
Vermont, in 1861, and immediately on his arrival in Plainview clerked for
Ozias Willcox, and continued in his employ until 1866. He subsequently
succeeded Crowley & Co. in the drug business, which he retained until
1874. He was elected in the fall of 1867 county treasurer, in which
capacity he faithfully served his fellow men until 1871. To the school
board he was elected and returned a member until 1878, and among other
posts of honor and business schemes he officiated as president of the
telegraph company then operating a line between Plainview and Minneiska.
The creamery success has been marked and acknowledged, not alone in this
his native clime, but on the other side of the great deep. At the state
fair, held at Rochester, besides other premiums, Mr. F. was awarded
England's silver cup, contributed by Higgins & Co, of Liverpool, for the
best creamery butter salted with their salt. In addition to the four acres
of land which he purchased from S. W. Dac and on which he subsequently
erected his homestead, and still later his factory in close proximity to
his house, farms at Highland, Minnesota, Redwood county and Kingsbury
county, Dakota, are his. For fifteen years in succession he served as
trustee of the Congregational church, and now stands, as he is reputed to
have always stood in the community, with the best; a man esteemed for
industry, honor and respectability.