Delbert E. Earsley

Delbert E. Earsley was educated in the public schools of Utica, after which he started in the elevator business there, as an employe of the Seefield Elevator Co. Later he was connected with the Marfield Elevator Co., of Winona, and still later with the Western Elevator Co. In 1912 Mr. Earsley came to Elgin and purchased the elevator of the Western Elevator Co., engaging in business for himself. He has gained an extensive patronage and is now numbered among the leading business men of the village. Handles, buys and sells all kinds of grain, coal, feed, salt and farm machinery, and aside from his own immediate concerns, is interested in all projects that are for the betterment of the community in which he had made his home. He has done good service as a member of the village council. His fraternal affiliations are with Elgin Lodge, No. 115, A. F. & A. M., the Modern Woodmen of America, both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Earsley was married March 26, 1896, to Ethie Ellsworth, of Utica, and of this union two children have been born: Etta M., November 27, 1898, and Harold E., March 26, 1908. Etta M. was graduated from the state School of Faribault for the Deaf, in the class of 1916, and is now a student at the Calludet College at Washington, D. C. Harold E. is attending public school in Elgin. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church and are prominent in the higher social circles of Elgin.

From the book, "History of Wabasha County, Minnesota"