M. R. YORK

M. R. YORK, a farmer of Yolo County, and at present one of the Supervisors, is the son of Meredith and Martha (Browning) York. His mother was born in Kentucky in 1805, and died in 1887. His father, born in Tennessee in 1800, was a farmer and a minister of the Christian Church, and died in 1851. Mr. York, our subject, was born in Clay County, Tennessee, in 1839, and came to Woodland in 1859, where he received most of his schooling. At the present time, 1890, he is a County Supervisor from the fifth district, being elected January 1, 1889. The same year he erected a beautiful residence upon his farm, which comprises 320 acres of well improved land, and whereon the principal product is wheat.

Mr. York, November 3, 1867, married Susan Maxwell, a native of Cooper County, Missouri, and the names of their children are: Mattie, Rhoda, William N. and Ella. Another child, Maud, died March 29, 1884.

Source: Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co. , 1891
Transcribed by: Betty Wilson, August 2004 ©

(Please note: You can view photographs of some of the York family cemetery stones contributed by Cliff Day, presented by the USGenWeb Archives, at this web address: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/yolo/cemeteryphotos/Cottonwood/)