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HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO
A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches,
Schools, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the
Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Brown County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
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Lewis Twp. -
ALFRED N. YOUNG, dealer in leaf tobacco, Higginsport.
This gentleman is of English extraction, and his grandfather, William
Young, was of English parentage. The maternal
great-grandfather, William Lancaster, was a patriot in the
Continental war, and died in Indiana, in 1843, at the very great age of 104
years. William Young died in Bracken County, Ky., in 1838, and
he in Higginsport, Ohio, in 1845, having been a resident of the State four
years. Robert Young was born in Bracken County, Ky.,
Mar. 28, 1812, reaching his sixteenth year in his native State; he then
entered upon river life, which claimed his attention for over thirty years.
At first, he was cook on a flat-boat, but by proper conduct soon became
pilot for E. Thompson & Sons, boating to New Orleans. By
frugality and industry he was enabled to commence business, in 1842, upon
his own responsibilities, which resulted favorably, and was continued until
1861, he leaving New Orleans, the day Fort Sumter was fired on. He
returned home to Higginsport, Ohio, where he had resided since 1838, and for
the past twenty years has been engaged in the leaf tobacco business.
His first marriage was celebrated June 18, 1840, with Mary, daughter
of Jesse Dugan. Three children were given her, and her
death occurred Jan. 18, 1850. Subsequently, he married her cousin,
Deborah, daughter of Bazil Dugan, to whom three children have
been given, two of whom still live. The gentleman whose name heads
this sketch was born Mar. 4, 1841, in Higginsport, Ohio. He was reared
in his native village, where he received the benefit of the public schools
of the town, improving his education at the Cincinnati Commercial College.
In September, 1861, he entered the military service in Company F, First Ohio
Light Artillery, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville,
Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, serving until Sept. 28, 1864, when he was
discharged at Columbus, Ohio, having risen to the rank of Sergeant of the
battery. He returned home uninjured, and was engaged in boating down
the river until his marriage with Miss Amanda Devore, Dec. 26, 1866.
He then engaged in the leaf tobacco in Cincinnati, Ohio, residing in
Newport, Ky. This received his attention until 1870, when he accepted
the position of United States Census Marshal of Campbell County, Ky., and on
September 24 of the same year, he was commissioned as Consul to Santiago de
Cuba. He entered upon his new duties and remained there until Dec. 5,
1876. During his term of office, and steamer "Virginius" was
captured and brought into the port - Santiago. He, with his family,
returned to Higginsport, Ohio, where they have since resided, and devoted
his time to the leaf tobacco trade, for a while, in partnership with his
father. Mr. Young is yet a young man, and has not only filled
honorable positions, but has honorably discharged his duties. He is
well situated in life, occupying one of the good residences of Higginsport,
Ohio. He and wife have one son - Frank L., born Dec. 22, 1867.
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Union Twp. -
G. F. YOUNG, tobacco dealer, Ripley, is a son of Robert L. and Mary
(Dugan) Young, natives of Kentucky, who settled in Lewis Township, Brown
County, in 1832. Her death occurred in that township in 1852.
Prior to the rebellion, he was largely engaged on the river in freight
transportation between Cincinnati and New Orleans, and ran the largest
freight boat to and from these ports. The vessel was finaly
lost, being crushed by a ship at New Orleans. Since the war, he has
been extensively engaged in the tobacco trade in connection with his son,
Alfred, and they are reputed as the largest dealers in the latter named
city. He retains his residence at Higginsport, where the subject of
this sketch was born in 1844. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the
First Ohio Cavalry, Company F, and did active service until he was wounded
at the battle of Stone River, and was honorably discharged from the service
Apr. 16, 1863. Mr. Young became engaged in the pork and tobacco
trade with Stephenson & Thompson, of this city, with whom he was
associated some years. In 1877, he established himself in the tobacco
trade at his storehouse on Third street, where he has since been actively
and successfully engaged. His shipments of tobacco average 100
hogsheads per annum, and he employs men who are constantly packing and
shipping. Mr. Young was joined in wedlock to Miss Hannah
Stephenson, of Ripley, by Daniel Gaddis, on the 29th day of
March, 1869. To this union two children have been born, one of whom is
living, viz.: Ada. George F. deceased.
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Scott Twp. -
HENRY YOUNG. The venerable subject of the
following sketch was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1802; his
parents emigrated to the Northwest in 1816, and settled on a tract of land
lying on Eagle Creek, in Franklin Township, Brown Co., Ohio. There
Mr. Young was employed in farming for many years, and here, Apr.
12, 1821, he was married to his estimable wife. Mrs. Young, whose
maiden name was Nancy Spires, was six years the senior of her
husband, having been born Dec. 2, 1796. Recently, they commemorated
the sixty-first anniversary of their happy marriage by a birthday festival,
which was joined by three persons, who sere guests at the wedding feast
sixty-one years ago; they were John Spires. Mrs. Sallie Smith
and Mrs. Jane Peddicord, brother and sisters of Mrs. Young.
Fifteen years after his union with Miss Spires, that is to say in
1836, he moved to his present home in Scott Township, having previously
bought of Garland Anderson the mill, then known as the "Anderson
mill," and a farm of seventy acres, attached, for $4,000. Mr. Young
has since added several hundred acres to his original purchase, and is now
one of the largest land owners in the county. When the cholera broke
out in 1849, in New Hope, he left his farm and business, and devoted his
whole attention to caring for and cheering the sick and dying. He and
Martin Gotts and Perry Applegate took a mutual pledge to give
their time, their energy, and, if need be, their lives to the heroic
conquest of the dread scourge. They faithfully kept the pledge, but at
the cast of two lives- Gotts and Applegate, who fell victims
to the enemy. Mr. Young has always been an ardent upholder of
the party whose father was Jefferson. He has been called to
fill offices of trust and profit, both in the township and county; he was
Township Treasurer for many years; was three times elected a Justice of the
Peace; and in 1852 was chosen Sheriff of Brown County. He is a member,
or was, of White Oak Lodge, No. 292, and an earnest working Mason.
Four children were the issue of his matrimonial alliance - Richard,
Matilda, Reynolds, Lucinda and Robert, of whom only the second
child, Matilda, is living.
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Pike Twp. -
JOSEPH YOUNG, farmer, P. O. Sureyville, was born in
Lewis Township, Brown County, Ohio, May 29, 1834, and is a son of Omega
and Nancy Young. Omega was born in North Carolina, emigrated to
Virginia when a boy, remained there awhile and then pressed forward to
Kentucky, and after living in Kentucky for a time, he emigrated to Ohio in
1853, when he settled in Lewis Township, Brown County, four miles north of
Higginsport, where he now resides. Joseph is the second son and
fifth child of the family. He was united in marriage with Mary Ann
Loudon, Feb. 16, 1865. He acquired a common school education, and
has been engaged in teaching in the common schools of Ohio for a number of
years. He owns seventy-four acres of land in Pike Township, where he
resides. Mr. and Mrs. Young are the parents of six children, of
whom five survive - Nancy S., Omega D., Nellie G., Mary B. and
Jessie V. Mr. Young's record is such that his children may point
to it with pride. Himself and wife have been members of the Methodist
Church for a number of years.
Source: The History of Brown County Ohio - Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. -
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Lewis Twp. -
OMEGA YOUNG, farmer, P. O. Georgetown, was born in
Pennsylvania in 1795; he is a son of Fountain and Tabitha Young,
natives of Virginia, of English descent. Our subject came west at an
early day, and received a liberal education in Cincinnati, which, at that
time was but a village. He settled in Lewis Township, Brown County, in
1813, and has since made it his home. He married Mary Cochran
who died soon after their marriage, and in 1824 he married Nancy Stayton,
a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Wise) Stayton, and a niece of Gov.
Wise. By this union fourteen children were born, of whom eleven
survive, viz.: Mary J. (widow of Harvey McKibben,
deceased,) Indiana (wife of R. P. Bennington, of Ripley),
Wiley W., (an attorney of Georgetown), Joseph (a farmer of Pike
Township), William D. (an attorney of Ripley), Lizzie (wife of
William Kantz), Maggie (wife of George H.
Coulther, of Clermont County), Lou M. (wife of Orlesta Church),
and S. Frankie (wife of Dr. A. Harne, of Chicago), James E.
and H. Queen. The deceased are Martha, Thomas C. and
Emma J. Mr. Young is a man of literary tastes, and he has given
all his children a liberal education. He has followed farming all his
life, until within a few years, when he retired from active life. He
resides two miles west of Georgetown, where he owns 105 acres of excellent
farm land. In the early part of his life, he took an active interest
in politics, frequently taking the stump in his party's behalf. He
never sought or held any office other than the minor ones of his township.
He is a Republican in politics, and takes a deep interest in the work of his
party. Mr. Young was for several years a minister of the
New Light Church, but of late years he has not been identified with any
church, but has for many years, and is now, very liberal in his religious
views. He is one of the representative men of the county, and has
always been classed with its better citizens.
Source: The History of Brown County Ohio - Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. -
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Pleasant Twp. -
ROBERT YOUNG, of Robert Young & Co.,
Georgetown, proprietor Georgetown Woolen Mills, was born near Belfast,
Ireland, in November, 1829. He is a son of Robert Young, also a
native of Ireland, and of Scotch descent. He was a farmer and linen
weaver until his death, June 7, 1847. His mother was Isabella
McClellan, also a native of Ireland and of Scotch ancestry. Our
subject grew up in Ireland, and receiving a fair education. He early
learned the linen weaver's trade, and when nineteen years of age came to
America. He first located at Philadelphia, where he learned
ingrain carpet weaving, which trade he followed for a number of years.
In 1857, he came West, locating at Leesburg, Highland Co., Ohio, where he
worked in a factory two and a half years. He went back to Pennsylvania
in October, 1859, where he remained till September, 1861. He then came
to Georgetown, at the solicitation of Warner & Ramey, proprietors of
a woolen mill in the south part of the village. He worked for the firm
ten months. In August, 1862, he elisted in Company C,
Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving as a private till
July, 1865, when he received an honorable discharge; upon his return to
Georgetown, Mr. Young once more became connected with the mill
business, and some years ago became part owner of the mill, a sketch of
which appears in another chapter. Mr. Young is a member of the
Good Templars and the Presbyterian Church. He is a Republican in
politics, and has been a member of the Village Council for eight years,
being again re-elected Apr. 3, 1882. He was married at Philadelphia,
June 6, 1850, to Mary A. Robinson, a native of County Tyrone,
Ireland. They have only one child - William A., in business
with his father. Mrs. Young is a member of the Christian
Church.
Source: The History of Brown County Ohio - Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. -
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Pike Twp. -
V. B. YOUNG, farmer, P. O. Mt. Oreb, was born in Brown
County, Ohio, May 13, 1847. He is a son of Thomas F. and Sarah
Young. His education was acquired in the common schools of Brown
County and the Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio. He was raised a farmer
and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits and teaching and has taught in
the common schools for over fifteen years. He was married July 8, 1870
to Isabella Patten. After his marriage he bought 51 acres of
land where he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Young are the parents
of three children, all living - Ruella, born May 29, 1871; Flora,
born Jan. 30, 1874, and O. A., born Nov. 25, 1880.
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Union Twp. -
W. D. YOUNG, attorney at law and Mayor of Ripley, is a
son of Omega and Nancy (Stayton) Young, and was born Apr. 15, 1836.
He is a grandson of Fountain Young, who was a soldier in the late war with
Great Britain, and was killed at the battle of the Thames, in 1813.
Omega Young was born in Rockingham County, N. C. Mar. 23, 1797. He
moved to Brown County from Floyd County, Ky., in 1807 and located in
Higginsport. He was a shoemaker by trade, but afterward purchased a
farm in Lewis Township, on which he settled and resided until 1853, when he
removed to Pleasant Township, where he and his estimable lady are living in
the full enjoyment of a ripe age. The advantages of education were few
and limited, and having a large family, he devoted his attention largely to
their educational culture and improvement. Of the fourteen children
that were born to him, eleven are living; nine of them were well qualified
school teachers. He was an advocate of grammar and of temperance, and
during his life acquired a thorough knowledge of history and theology.
His distinguished loyalty to the Whig party and opposed sentiments to
slavery were marked features of his well spent life. At the
organization of the Republican party, he united himself with it, and had
since been an earnest advocate of his doctrines and principles. The
subject of this biography was reared and brought up on the old homestead
farm. In 1854, at the age of eighteen, he left the harvest field in
time to prepare himself, and went to the Southwestern Normal Institute at
Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, where he remained in the pursuance of his studies
five weeks. His education prior to this was obtained in the district
schools of his native place. In 1853, he engaged in teaching, which he
followed up to 1860, devoting his spare time to the reading of law. He
entered the law office of Gen. Sellers and R. A. Bower, of
Georgetown, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar at Lebanon, Ohio. In
1860, he began the practice of law in Georgetown, and the same year edited
the publication of the Brown County Republican, the first issue
appearing on July 3. The following fall, he disposed of his interest
to W. H. Sallyards. In 1861, he served three months in Company
I, of the Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, after which he returned to
Georgetown. In the spring of 1862, he removed to Cincinnati and opened
a law office and remained until September, 1863, when he took up his
residence in Ripley. He formed a partnership with Chambers Baird,
with whom he continued until 1873, when the firm dissolved, and the
subsequent fall Mr. Young formed partnership with C. A. Linn,
now of Cincinnati. He remained with Mr. Linn as a partner till
1876, since which date he has been alone. Mr. Young has been
called upon to fill various offices of honor and trust. In 1876, he
was chosen Mayor of Ripley, and Apr. 4, 1882, when elected for the fourth
term. Mayor Young is a gentleman of honor and one of the most
successful practitioners at the Brown County bar. He entered the arena
of life with no resources but his own, and has through diligence and
judicious use and improvement of opportunities, achieved an honorable and
merited success. He has always displayed a prominent interest in all
worthy public enterprises, and especially of an educational character.
In 1856, he assisted in the organization of the National Normal School at
Lebanon, Ohio. He celebrated his marriage in 1863, with Miss
Virginia Johnson daughter of Baker Johnson, and a native of
Camden County, N. J. Six children were the fruits of this union; of
these four are living, viz: Cora, Hattie V., Eugene R. and
Florence L. Willie B. and Clarence are deceased.
Source: The History of Brown County Ohio - Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. -
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Pleasant Twp. -
WILEY W. YOUNG, lawyer, Georgetown, was born in Lewis
Township, this county, May 13, 1834. His father, Omega Young,
was a native of Tazewell County, in Southern West Virginia, were he was born
in 1798. He came to Ohio in 1816, locating at Higginsport, Brown
County. He subsequently learned the shoe-maker's trade at Cincinnati,
and followed that at Higginsport till 1830. He then removed to a farm
in Lewis Township, where he still resides. At one time in his life,
Mr. Young was a minister of the Christian denomination. Mr.
Young's mother, was Nancy Stayton, a native of Lewis Township.
She was the daughter of Jacob Stayton (an Englishman by birth and a
native of New Jersey) and Mary Wise, a cousin of Henry A. Wise,
Governor of Virginia. Our subject was the first son and fourth child
of a family of fourteen children, eleven of whom are living. He was
reared on the farm in Lewis Township, obtaining his early literary education
in the district school, and subsequently attending the High School, at
Felicity, Clermont Co., Ohio. He was a farmer and a school teacher in
early life. In 1856, he commenced the study of law at Georgetown, with
Hanson L. Penn, Esq., remaining with him till his admittance to the
bar, in 1858. He soon after opened an office in Georgetown, and has
been in constant practice since. He was a law partner of Judge D.
W. C. Loudon for ten or twelve years, and in 1879 formed a partnership
with W. S. Whiteman. The firm at once attained and enjoyed a
successful law practice. In 1871, Mr. Young was admitted to
practice in the Federal Courts, and has also practiced some in Kennedy.
His political views have been strongly Republican since the organization of
that party. Mr. Young was married Jan. 14, 1858, to Mary E.
Graves, a native of Kanawha County, W. Va. Six children have been
given them, two living - Elizabeth and Wiley W., Jr. In
1847, Mr. Young accompanied his sister to Felicity, Clermont County,
on a visit. While there he met his great-grandmother, Martha
Chaffant, who was then one hundred and six years of age (and lived
fifteen months longer); his grandmother, Tabitha Chaffant, aged
seventy-eight (and lived to be eighty-eight or eighty-nine years old); his
aunt, aged forty, who with himself and sister, represented four generations.
Mr. Young's grandfather, Fountain Young, was with Gen.
Harrison, and suffered death at the battle of Thames in 1813.
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Lewis Twp. -
WILLIAM YOUNG, retired farmer, Higginsport, is a son of
William Young, Sr., and a grandson of William Lancaster
- the latter serving in the war that freed our country from English tyranny,
as mentioned in the sketch of Alfred N. Young. William,
whose name heads this sketch, was born in Bracken County, Ky., in 1802, and
in March, 1828, came to Ohio, where he has since resided, having married on
January 31, previous. His life has been devoted mostly to teaming and
farming, but time has bent his frame and silvered his hair, and he now lives
retired. His children were twelve in number, seven daughters and five
sons. Five are now living, of whom Daniel has given some time
to the study of law, which he is practicing in Higginsport. Mrs.
Matilda Young was born Jan. 24, 1806, in Pennsylvania, and is
a daughter of Stephen Calvin, who with his family located in Ohio in
1815, and in 1819 in Higginsport. He was one of the first settlers in
the village, and will be mentioned in the history of the town. Mr.
and Mrs. Young have trod the path of married life for over a half
century, and now look back with pleasure on the scenes of their early life.
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