History of Story County, Iowa Vol 2 by William O. Payne, 1911

removed to Kelley and for seventeen years worked for the Lockwood Grain Company in connection with the operation of the elevator at this paint. His wife died in Kelley in 1898, at the age of fifty-six years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sutter have been born three children : Effie, now the wife of R. C. Lowman, of Kelley; Irene and Edith, at home.

While Mr. Sutter has at times been absent from the county, he has practically regarded Story county as his place of residence since 1875. Whatever success he has achieved is due entirely to his own efforts. He has worked his way steadily upward and his industry and energy have been the salient features in winning him a substantial place in business circles.

The strength of the American nation lies in its self-made men--those who through unremitting toil, indomitable courage and temperate habits have attained the heights to which they aspired and in so doing have ever retained the respect and esteem of their fellowmen. Of such as these is William M. Young. He was born in Polk county, Iowa, on the 19th of January, 1862, being the son of Benjamin and Rachael (Woods) Young, both natives of Darke county, Ohio, where they were reared and married. Benjamin Young came to Iowa in 1858, buying one-half section of land in Polk county, near Ankeny, on which he lived until 1864 or 1865, when he returned to Ohio, spending two years in Darke county. At the end of that time he came to Iowa again, settling in jasper county on Wolf creek, five miles south of Collins. He bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he lived for a number of years, and on selling this he purchased a small farm near Mingo, continuing to make his home there until the death of his wife, when he removed to Mitchellville to reside with his daughter, with whom he is still living at the venerable age of eighty-three years.

The early years of William Young's life were unusually void of those joys and pleasures we consider to be the rightful heritage of every child. He was reared to manhood on the jasper county farm and upon him devolved much of the farm work, his schooling being confined to the brief sessions of the district school, which he attended at such times as his services were not required at home. At the age of fourteen years he laid aside his textbooks and became self-supporting, hiring out as a farm hand, for which service he received ten dollars per month. His first work was the binding of grain behind an old Buckeye reaper on a farm where the town of Collins now stands. His earnings, up to the age of nineteen years, were given to his father, after that, however, he began working for himself, continuing as a farm hand for four more years and then renting the place where he had been employed. Always thrifty, by careful management and indefatigable energy he was able in 1881 to buy his first