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EDWIN W. McCANN

     lately dealer in hardware and implements, at Waitsburg, is a native of
Dodge county, Wisconsin, born in 1847. When he was quite young, his family moved
to a different part of the state, to Omro, and here Mr. McCann resided until
fourteen years old.  In 1862, he moved to Filmore county, Minnesota, where he
completed his public school education. He then engaged in farming. In 1869, he
moved to Chippewa county, took a homestead, and engaged in farming there. In
1878, he entered the employ of L. K. Stone as a wheat-buyer and elevator man and
tins was his occupation until April, 1887, when he sold out his holdings and
came to Waitsburg, Washington.
    Shortly after his arrival here, he formed a partnership with Mr. Macomber,
for the purpose of starting a hardware and implement store and to that business
his energies have been given ever since until quite recently, but he lately sold
out. He is an excellent business man, being possessed of the shrewdness,
foresight and unerring judgment characteristic of the truly successful in
commercial life. He is also a public-spirited man, ever ready to do what lies in
his power for the social and material amelioration of the neighborhood in which
he lives. In 1889, he was elected a school director, and has served as such
ever since except for a period of two years. In 1897, he was elected to the
mayoralty of Waitsburg. His re-election followed in 1898, and in 1899 he
declined renomination.
    In politics Mr. McCann was a Democrat until 1896, when his gold standard
principles compelled him to support McKinley, and he has since belonged to the
Republican party. In fraternal affiliations he is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias
and a Workman. He was married at Montevideo, Minnesota, in 1879, to Mary G.
Anderson, a native of Minnesota, and to their union have been born two children,
Elma L. and Josephine.


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