Wishek, McIntosh County, North Dakota

Biography, Henry Elmer Timm submitted by Granddaughter Donnel Shaw,
taken from the booklet "Spirt of Wishek Golden Jubiliee 1898-1948" and
obituary.

Henry Elmer Timm has been a resident of Wishek for the past forty-one years
and a statement of his connections and associations with business and civic
affairs in Wishek and in McIntosh County during those years indicates that
he has been one of the substantial men in the community, being a type of
man who is never lacking in some usefull connection and relationship with
his community.

Mr. Timm was born in Franklin County, Iowa, October 22, 1885, the son of
Albert C. and Mary Nicklas Timm. His father was a native of Wisconsin and
his mother a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Timm was educated in the public
schools of Ackley, Iowa, graduating from high school in 1905 and from two
years attended Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He came to Wishek as
principal of its schools for the year 1907-1908. In 1908 he became
bookkeeper for the firm of Herr Brothers and Company, later homesteaded
near Green Lake McIntosh County, and in 1911 entered the employ of the
First State Bank of Wishek.