J. Morley Wyard came to Carrington in the early 1880s and homesteaded on the NE'A of section twenty-four in Wyard township, He proved up his land in 1884. Mr. Wyard took a prominent part in organizing Wyard Township and the school district. He was requested by the County commissioners to set up an organizational meeting which was later held in his home.

Mr. Wyard was one of the leading spirits in organizing the first Congregational Church in Carrington in 1883. He served on the first board of deacons and as the Sunday school superintendent. This church was the first church society in Foster County. J. Morley Wyard was a newspaper man, beginning as a reporter for a Montreal paper. He was the editor of the first newspaper in Carrington, the Carrington News. In 1889 the family moved to Park River where he published a paper for many years until moving to Minneapolis to retire in 1906. Mr. Wyard was prominent in the Republican party and was influential in shaping the policy of that party in Walsh County.

He died in Minneapolis in April 1914, survived by his wife and a daughter.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 108B