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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 512-513]

    E. EVERETT JAY, agent for the American Express Company, Cherokee,
    Iowa, was born in Bremer County, Iowa, near Waverly, June 11, 1857.
    He is the youngest of a family of five children of WILLIAM M. and
    JANE M. (RICH) JAY; the parents were natives of England and emi-
    grated to the United States soon after their marriage; they first
    stopped in the State of New York, and removed thence to Illinois,
    settling for a time in Saint Charles; they returned from this place
    to New York, and afterward his father took a trip to California,
    mining for several years; then they came to Iowa and settled in
    Bremer County, where the father died in March, 1881; he was born
    July 16, 1815; the mother died in December, 1888; she was born
    March 13, 1816.  E. EVERETT JAY, the subject of this brief bio-
    graphy, passed his boyhood in Bremer County, where he received a
    good common-school education.  After leaving the Waverly High School
    he entered a book and jewelry store as clerk, and served in that
    capacity for five years.  He then clerked in the post-office under
    ED KNOTT, Esq., as postmaster, and L. M. SHOLES, express agent and
    assistant postmaster; the express office was kept in the same build-
    ing; this service extended over a period of four and a half years,
    after which he entered the employ of the American Express Company,
    running on the Milwaukee & Illinois Central Railroad as messenger,
    rendering faithful service for a period of three years and a half.
    October 18, 1888, Mr. JAY was transferred to Cherokee, where he took
    charge of the American Express business, in which he has made him-
    self popular and has given entire satisfaction to the public as well
    as to his employers.  He was united in marriage June 6, 1881, to Miss
    MAGGIE CONNELL, of Waverly, Iowa; she was born in Charles City, Iowa,
    and is a daughter of C. connell, Esq., a prominent citizen of Waverly.
    This union has been blessed by the birth of one child, ANNA EVELYN.
    By his long term of service and the careful manner in which he has
    cared for the business of the company, he has rendered himself in
    every way worthy of the position which he holds.

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