PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL
RECORD OF OKLAHOMA

NATHAN D. YORK was, during his active and useful life, interested, among other things, in agriculture, in the prosecution of which he attained a marked degree of success. His farm in Oklahoma, to which he devoted the last years of his life, was located on the southeast quarter of section 26, township 19, range 4 west, Logan county.

Nathan D. YORK was born in North Carolina in 1844, and was a son of James and Sarah (GRAND) YORK, natives of New York State. They were worthy and industrious people, who settled in Champaign county, Ill, in 1851. Surrounded with the usual home influences, Nathan YORK received an excellent training in work about the farm, as well as a good education in the district schools. At the age of twenty he married Sarah LEWIS, a daughter of Nathan and Clarissa (WHITNEY) LEWIS, the former deceased and the latter living in Iowa.

After his marriage Mr. York lived in Illinois for about eight years, moving thence to Dallas county, Iowa, to a farm which he owned and operated. This farm was composed of three hundred and twenty acres of land, upon which coal was located. He sold the place, and after doing so oil was discovered, and it is now owned by the Omaha Gas Company. For a time he continued to reside in Iowa, on his father-in-law’s farm, until a few months before the opening of Oklahoma, when he went to St. Clair county, Mo., and later came to the territory, where he pre-empted the claim on which he afterwards lived. This and the claim of one hundred and sixty acres purchased later by his widow constitute well-improved land, with convenient and well-constructed house and outbuildings, running water and modern appliances for conducting farm work.

To Mr. and Mrs. YORK were born ten children, who are a source of comfort and pride to their widowed mother. Viola is the wife of Mr. NEWMAN; Lewis is living at home; Joseph resides in Missouri; William is a farmer in Oklahoma; Cora is now Mrs. Hendricks, and lives in the territory; Fred works in the home place; Effie is now Mrs. JOHNSON, and lives in Oklahoma; Maud Lucinda and Elsie Virginia are at home.

Portrait and Biographical Record of Oklahoma (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1901), 1083.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Connie Welch  <lostdove@geocities.com>, April 1999.