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JOHN YOST was born in the town of Columbus, Dec. 19, 1861. He worked several winters logging and cutting ties and a short time in car shops in Stillwater, Minn. Aside from that he has lived almost continuously on the farm taken up by his father in 1856, and which he now owns jointly with his brother Joseph. He also owns considerable other land in the towns of Columbus and Forest Lake. He was married Jan. 5, 1898, to Jennie Landgrabe. Children: Lester and Myrtle A.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

YOST YOST was born at Nottwyl, Switzerland, Nov. 19, 1829. Learned the trade of a nailmaker and came to the United States Nov. 10, 1853, landing in New York on that date. Learned and worked at blacksmithing in New York and moved to the town of Columbus, Anoka Co., in 1857, settling on the farm where he now lives in 1857. All of his children were born here. He enlisted in Co. E, Hatch’s Battalion, in August, 1864. Served on the frontier in Dakota and Minnsota for two years. He has been influential in town affairs, and has held every office in the gift of the town, town clerk, justice of the peace, etc., for many years. He was a candidate for county commissioner two or three times, but was defeated on acount of his party being in the minority. He received a majority in his district, but as the county then elected at large, he was defeated. He received in Columbus and Centreville 118 votes to his opponent’s four the first time he ran. Mr. Yost was married July 9, 1855, to Agatha Gassman. Children: Mary (Mrs. Edward Ryoux), Josephine (Mrs. W. H. Jastrom, St. Croix Falls, Wis.), Joseph (Brainerd, Minn.), John, Agatha (Mrs. James Smith, Gordon, Wis.), Anna (Mr. Daniel Monroe, Mountain Iron, Minn.), Rose (Mrs. Frank Youngquist, Gordon, Wis.). (See portrait, page 162.)

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905