WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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Biography transcribed & donated to Wabasha County, MN Bios by
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		    "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY MINNESOTA"
                               COMPILED BY
                         FRANKLYN CURTISS-WEDGE
                                AND OTHERS

                                ILLUSTRATED

                               WINONA, MINN.
                          H. C. COOPER, JR., & CO.
                                   1920



Boss, David (page 645), who is traveling the road to fortune along agricultural lines in the township of 
 Gillford, was born in this township August 6, 1883, son of Andrew and Jeanette (Nesbit) Boss. His parents, 
 natives of Scotland, were among the Wabasha County pioneers of 1863. He was reared on the home farm 
 and in his boyhood attended district school No. 88, continuing his studies up to the age of 17. In 1901 he was 
 graduated from the Minnesota Agricultural College, and in 1908 he bought the home farm, on which he has 
 always resided, and is now operating it as a general farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Boss breeds pure blooded 
 Hereford cattle, having now a herd of about 50, and raises about the same number of pure blood Poland- 
 China hogs annually, together with a good grade of Shropshire sheep. He has greatly improved the buildings 
 on his farm and has built a tile silo and other necessary structures. He has also provided himself with a first 
 class operating equipment. His business interests are not entirely confined to his farm, he is a stockholder in 
 the Farmer's Shipping Association of Zumbro Falls, the Farmers' Elevator Co. of the same place, of which 
 he is an officer; the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Zumbro Falls, the Zumbro Falls Farmers' 
 Telephone Co., and the Terminal Packing Co. of Newport, Minn. A Democrat in politics, he has served as 
 town clerk for the past three years and is a member of the school board of his district. He has a wide 
 acquaintance throughout this part of the county and is universally respected.