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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen & Van Wert
Counties, Ohio
Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co.
1896
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MICHAEL J. YOAKIM
Source: A Portrait and biographical record of Allen &
Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896
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Amos Young |
AMOS YOUNG
Source: A Portrait and biographical record of Allen &
Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896
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ADAM YOUNGPETER,
an enterprising farmer, now of Marion township, Allen county,
Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, and was born in
Seneca county July 11, 1847, of sterling old German parentage.
Hubert Youngpeter, father of our subject was
born in Belgium, one of the oldest monarchies of Europe, and
there married Anna M. Peter. To this union were
born in the old country four children— an infant, deceased;
Michael (first); John, who died in our Civil war, and
Nicholas, who was killed by a falling tree after coming
to America. In 1847 Hubert, with his small family,
sought a home in the republic of the United States, and after
his arrival here there were born to him and wife the following
children: Annie, Adam, Susan, Thomas,
Michael (second), and Margaret— all of whom lived
to reach maturity, but of whom three are only living— Adam,
Thomas and Margaret. Mr.
Youngpeter first settled in Seneca county, Ohio, where he
bought a small farm of twelve acres, on which he lived until
September, 1861, when he came to Allen county and settled on an
eighty-acre tract in the woods at Landeck, and was one of the
first of the Landeck settlers to clear up a farm. He
became prosperous and reared his family to respectability, dying
at the advanced age of seventy-two years. Mr.
Youngpeter was an ardent Catholic, was very liberal in his
aid to the church, and was one of the foremost in contributing
to the erection of the Catholic house of worship at Landeck,
and, indeed, was one of its founders. In politics he was a
democrat, but was loyal to his
adopted country, and yielded to its defense, as will have been
seen, his son John, who died in hospital after three
months of brave and faithful military service.
Adam Youngpeter was born eleven days
after the arrival of his parents in Seneca county, Ohio.
His educational advantages were limited, but he succeeded in
gleaning a fair stock of information in the frontier school of
his native township. He was early inured to the hard work
incident to the clearing up of a forest farm, and at the age of
fifteen years came with his parents to Marion township, Allen
county, where there was but little cessation of this class of
labor until he had reached his majority, if then.
July 3, 1871, Mr. Youngpeter was joined
in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Louisa Frend,
daughter of MICHAEL and Beatrice (Lutz)
FREND—parents of two children, Charles and Louisa.
Mr. Frend is a pioneer of Spencer township, Allen
county, Ohio, coming from Elsass, now a province of Germany.
He owns 160 acres of land in Spencer township, and, owning such
a farm, in so favorable a locality, is necessarily wealthy.
He and family are devout members of the Catholic church at
Landeck. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Youngpeter
settled upon and went to housekeeping on the old Youngpeter
estate, and here have been born their nine children— John,
who died at the age of sixteen years, Hubert, Edward,
Annie C., Emma, and others, who died in infancy.
This homestead he had purchased, being now the sole owner, and
has placed it in a fine state of cultivation, and so improved
that it compares most favorably with any other in the township.
In addition, Mr. Youngpeter is now in partnership
with Peter Wagner in operating a threshing
machine. In politics Mr. Youngpeter is a
democrat; in religion he and family are Catholics, and few stand
higher in the respect of the community, than he.
Source: A Portrait and biographical record of Allen &
Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896
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