Bio of York, Edward N. (b.1853) Wabasha Co., MN
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York, Edward N. (page 416), for many years a leading citizen of Hammond,
with the development of which village he has had much to do, was born in
Manchester, N. H., November 19, 1853, son of Edward M. and Mary (Sinclair)
York. He was about two years old when he accompanied his parents to
Wabasha County, Minn., this being more than two years before Minnesota
became a state, and for the last 64 years he has lived within four miles
of Hammond, the farm on which his parents settled being four miles to the
northeast of the present village. After attending the district school he
took a commercial course in a business college, but remained on the home
farm until he was 27 years old. Then coming to Hammond, he entered upon a
business career, starting a general store, which he conducted alone for 13
years. At the end of that time William Kruger became his partner, and
besides carrying on the store they started the first creamery in this part
of the county, which they conducted together for seven years and then sold
to the farmers. Mr. Kruger remained in the store business for about four
years longer and then sold his interest in it to Adam A. Funk. In the same
year Andrew Haggerty, a farmer, joined Mr. York, and Mr. Funk increased
the stock and erected the building in which the business is now carried on
under the style of E. N. York & Co. The concern handles a general line of
merchandise, including dry goods, shoes, groceries and men's and ladies'
furnishings. In the fall of 1899 E. N. York was instrumental in organizing
the Hammond State Bank, and served as its cashier and president, being
still a director. His son Walter is now cashier. Mr. York also served as
postmaster of Hammond for 26 years. He was for four years a member of the
county board of commissioners, was treasurer of the town of Zumbro for 13
years, treasurer of Hammond Village nine years, school treasurer for many
years, trustee of the village two years, and also a member of the school
board. During his long and active public career he was never once defeated
for a public office, a strong testimony to the confidence reposed in him
by his fellow citizens, which is justified by his record. Both in his
business and public career he has given the best that was in him to the
matter at hand, never sparing himself when there was work to be done, and
his efforts have had beneficial and permanent results. For all these
things he is respected by his fellow citizens, while his social qualities
have also made him personally popular. Edward N. York was married at Alma,
Wis., in May, 1882, to Amelia Dodsall, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Michael
Dodsall, the parents being natives of Germany. Of this marriage have been
born nine children: Ella E., now the wife of Alfred L. Schuchard, a farmer
of Hyde Park Township; Walter E., cashier of the Hammond State Bank; Earl,
a traveling salesman; Harry, employed in his father's store, who enlisted
in the infantry and served 17 months in France during the recent world
war; Francis, a boy possessing musical talent, which he is cultivating;
Herbert O., who also enlisted for service in the recent war and was
stationed in Tennessee; Raymond, manager of the local telephone company;
Ernest, who is in the confectionary business in Hammond, and Arleigh, who
is residing at home.