Andrew J. York

YORK, FRASIER, KAMERER, WOODS, DAVIS, MILLIKAN, PARKER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/19/2010 at 07:02:50

History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910, James W. Ellis

ANDREW J. YORK.

Andrew J. York was born in Clinton county, Indiana. March 5, 1843, His parents being William and Elizabeth (Frasier) York, both natives of Ohio. The family subsequently removed to Indiana, and in the Hoosier state he was reared and married and resided there until 1873. In that year he removed to Jackson county, Iowa, with his family, which then consisted of a wife and three children. He located on a farm in Farmers Creek township and in 1878 he purchased his present homestead of two hundred acres in South Fork township near Hurstville. Here he has by the employment of scientific methods brought his farm to a high state of cultivation, and he is accounted one of the successful general agriculturists. Mr. York is a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted July 29, 1862, in Company B of the Eighty-Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He served until the close of the Rebellion, being mustered out of service in June 6, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. York was married to Miss Catherine Kamerer, of Carroll county, Indiana, September 29, 1868. To this union eight children were born, all of them growing to manhood and womanhood. They are: Cora, deceased; Wallace, a farmer of Maquoketa; Mary, the wife of J. K. Davis, of Maquoketa; Lucy, deceased; Ida, the wife of Bert Woods, of Farmers Creek township, Jackson county; Minnie, the widow of E. S. Millikan, residing in Chicago, Illinois; Junie, the wife of Herman A. Parker, of Chicago; and Oscar, who still resides under the parental roof.
Mr. York gives loyal adherence to the men and measures of the republican party. He is a champion of education and for many years has served upon the school board, being a member at the present time. He is also connected with the board of trustees, this being his fifth term in office. He still keeps alive old military memories and associations by means of his membership in the A. W. Drips Post, No. 74, G. A. R. Both he and his wife are faithful and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose good works always have their ready support. The esteem in which he is held by his fellowmen has been evinced by the public trust which they have reposed in him. He has reared his children to good citizenship, has husbanded the resources of that part of Jackson county which has fallen to his share, and has always been willing to shoulder his part of the common duty, thus serving his country as well in time of peace as in time of war.

Andrew York
 

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