York

York, Flora Etta Killian Mrs. – Obituary

Flora Etta York, 65, 2584 Cedar Street, died Friday afternoon in St. Elizabeth hospital. Mrs. York, the daughter of Daniel O. and Genora Killian was born in Scopes, Missouri, September 21, 1898. She was married to Herbert A. York at Clarkston, Missouri, April 17, 1915. The family lived in Missouri until 1946 when they moved to Vale. They then moved to Unity where she lived for three years and to Bates where Mr. York was employed by the government. They moved to Baker in the fall of 1962. Mrs. York was a member of the Baptist church. She is survived … Read more

York, Mabel Spearman Mrs. – Obituary

Mabel York Was Native of Utah Recitation of the Rosary for Mabel M. York 61, of 2325 Baker St. longtime resident of Baker and Sumpter was at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening May 29, at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. Rev. Charles T. Grant, Chaplain at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home officiated. Graveside services will be held to day, Thursday, May 30, at 3:00 p.m. at the family plot in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mrs. York died Sunday at the St. Elizabeth Nursing Home after an extended illness. She was born June 23, 1912, in Randolph, Utah, the daughter of Charles and … Read more

Biography of L. A. York

The present popular editor and proprietor of the Owyhee Avalanche, at Silver City, Mr. L. A. York, is a native of Lewiston, Maine, born March 13, 1866. His parents were Jerome W. and Martha (Read) York, both natives of that city, and his father of Scotch ancestry. The first representatives of the family in America settled in Maine very early in its history. On the maternal side this ancestry is English, traceable back to Sir John Read, an English nobleman born in the year 1600. Mr. York’s father died in North Dakota, in 1894, at the age of sixty-five years; … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George W. York

York, George W.; investment banker; born, 1869; graduated from Hiram College in 1892; he’ has been associated with the bond business since 1893; has had a long experience in the purchase and sale of bonds; has traveled extensively in connection with his work; for some years he was mgr. of the Bond Dept. of the Otis Co., and in 1911 became a general partner in the firm.

Business Men of Northern Maine

Winn Maine - Main Street looking East

The Northern Maine, its Points of Interest and its Representative Business Men manuscript provides historical sketches of the nine towns featured within it’s embrace, as well as biographical sketches of the businesses and the men and women who owned and ran those businesses found within the towns of Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn, and Kingman.