Moulton Twp. -
JOHN YOUNG, a son of Thomas Young, of Kentucky, was born December 28th, 1796.  In 1819 the family moved to Harshmanville, Montgomery county, Ohio.  After a brief resident at that point the family moved a second time, and located at Pontiac, in Shelby county, Ohio, where the father purchased a farm on which he resided until his death.
     John Young remained under the parental roof until the commencement of the War of 1812.  Being only sixteen years of age at that time, the recruiting officers declined to accept his application for enlistment as a soldier.  He, however, obtained employment, and served during the war of the capacity of wagon boy and stock driver.  A short time before the surrender of General Hull at Detroit, he accompanied a convoy from Dayton, Ohio, having in charge a drove of cattle and other supplies for the troops stationed at Fort Dearborn.  It was the last consignment that reached the fort.  The convoy returned to Dayton in safety, about the time of Hull's surrender.  When the convoy reached the Kankakee river they passed an encampment of Chippewa Indians who were in a starving condition.  The commandant took pity on them and give them a large ox.  The animal was immediately killed, and the entrails removed and prepared for boiling in a large kettle, by ripping them with a knife and giving them a moderate washing in the flowing stream.
     Mr. Young's elder brother, William, enlisted in 1812, and served during the war.  He died near Kossuth and is buried in that vicinity.
     John Young came to Auglaize county in 1846, and purchased a farm on the Auglaize river in Moulton township on which he resided until his death which occurred Aug. 3d, 1877.  Uncle Johnny Young as he was familiarly called, used to relate an incident that occurred at Sidney at the time he was a resident of Shelby county.  John Bryan, a lad of the town, ran away with a party of Indians who had been carousing around the village for a week or more.  The amount of fun that Bryan had with the Indian boys was such that he decided "to become one of them."  He accordingly left Sidney for Wapakoneta in company with his dusky associates.  An hour or two afterward the father was informed of the escapade of his son.  He immediately took steps to overtake the wayward youth, by applying to John Young, who was at Sidney at that time, offering him five dollars if he would overtake the party and bring back the boy.  Young consented to do so on condition that he should be furnished a horse and two gallons of whiskey to treat the Indians when he should overtake them.  The proposition was accepted, and a few minutes afterward he mounted a swift horse carrying a two gallon jug, filled with "lightning whiskey" in one hand and guiding the horse with the other.  The Indians were overtaken near the present site of Botkin's station, where they cheerfully exchanged the boy for whiskey.  Mr. Young returned in the evening and received the five dollars for the rescue.  The boy grew to manhood and settled at Uniopolis, Auglaize county, and in after years practiced medicine.
     Mr. Young was a highly respected member of the community in which he resided.
     The farm on which he lived for thirty-one years is now in the possession of his son-in-law, Mr. P. M. Reed.
Source: History of Western Ohio & Auglaize County -  by C. W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn & Sons - 1905 - Page 789