Cyrus Hayes Earsley

...who were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New York State, came west to Minnesota about 1861, and purchased 160 acres of land in Utica Township, which was wild and heavily timbered. By long and untiring effort, interrupted only by a period of service in the Civil War, Cyrus H. Earsley cut and grubbed out the timber and developed the land, also erecting a residence and outbuildings. There he followed general agriculture until 1890, when he retired to the Village of Utica, where he and his wife are still living, he being occupied in driving one of the rural mail routes out of that village. They were the parents of six children: Wallace, now deceased; Delbert E., of Elgin; Flora, residing at home with her parents; Frank, a farmer of Fremont, Minn.; Anna, deceased; Edward, now living in Winona; and James, residing in North Dakota. From the book "History of Wabasha County, Minnesota".