The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1061 

AUSTIN E. TYRRELL.

Although the business training and experience of Austin E. Tyrrell previous to
his arrival in Yakima county was totally unlike fruit growing, his activities
being directed along clerical lines, he has nevertheless met with substantial
success in the development of orchards in the Selah valley, where he now makes
his home. He was born in Waseca county, Minnesota, January 27, 1871, a son of
Edward and Mary Tyrrell, who in 1868 became residents of that state, removing to
the upper Mississippi valley from Maine. The fattier purchased a homestead from
the government, securing a tract of land upon which not a furrow had been
turned nor an improvement made, but with characteristic energy he began its
cultivation and transformed the wild tract into productive fields, which he
continued to cultivate until his death. His widow survives and now lives with
her children.

Austin E. Tyrrell acquired a public school education and afterward pursued a
business course in Mankato, Minnesota. He then secured employment in railroad
offices, where he continued until 1900, when he went to Montana and spent three
years with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.	He was afterward located in
Washington, D. C., where for five years he occupied a responsible position in
the treasury department of the United States. Attracted, however, by the stories
which reached him concerning the opportunities of the Yakima valley for fruit
culture, he came to this section of the state in 1910 and purchased ten acres of
land on Selah Heights. This tract he has since planted to pears and apples and
now has splendid bearing orchards. He has also spent three years in the interval
in California as a member of the state board of control but is now again upon
the farm, which he is carefully, wisely and successfully managing, having today
one of the fine orchard properties of this section of the state.

On the 20th of May, 1900, Mr. Tyrrell was united in marriage to Miss Rena
Anderson, a native of Minnesota and a daughter of T. Anderson, of Albert Lea,
Minnesota. Politically Mr. Tyrrell maintains an independent course, voting for
men and measures rather than party, nor is he identified with fraternal
interests, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention solely upon
business affairs, and in all that he does he is actuated by a laudable ambition.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.