This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: West, Webb Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1286 Message Board Post: The citation for this book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H. Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page 438 and 439 Millwood Township WILLIAM H. WEST, a native of Jersey county, Illinois, was born on the 11th of August, 1854. At the age of two years, he came with his parents to Prescott, Wisconsin, where he remained, with the exception of one year's absence, until twenty-one years of age. In 1875, he took a trip through the Southern States, and after his return, rented a farm for one year, after which he was employed by Dalrymple in opening his immense farm near Fargo. He was then employed on his father's farm for a year, and in the fall on 1877 commenced learning the miller's trade at Hudson Wisconsin. In April, 1879, he came to Melrose Flouring Mill. Mr. West was married on the 23rd of December, 1879, to Miss Emma Webb, a daughter of O.D. and Esther Webb, of Melrose.