YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914


WILLIAM W. WEST (1900)

William W. West, who farms the north half of section 12, Hazel Run township,
is a "Hawkeye" by birth, having been born in Black Hawk county, Iowa, July
8,1871.  His father, Thomas West, was a native of Ohio, and his mother, Mary
(Davis) West, of New York.  Both died in Iowa.

William West was reared in Black Hawk county, receiving his education in the
Cedar Falls schools.  When twenty-three years of age he went to Butler
county, Iowa, where he worked on a farm until 1900.  That year he came to
Yellow Medicine county and purchased the north half of section 12, Hazel Run
township, from Messrs. Gust. Miller and Henry Lamberton, and he has since
then been engaged in the operation of that farm.  One of the principal items
of interest on the farm is the fine herd of shorthorn cattle.

Mr. West was married in Minnesota Falls in 1909 to Isabelle Collins, who was
born in New York state.  She is a daughter of Michael and Isabelle (Quayle)
Collins, born in Massachusetts and Connecticut, respectively.  There are six
West children, namely: Ralph, Helen, Lela, Mary, Grace and Alice.