BIOGRAPHIES

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Portrait Biographical Album
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Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio
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JACOB YOUNG.    Among the successful and intelligent agriculturalists of Clark County, Jacob Young has a high rank, while as a man of thorough integrity and strict honor in business affairs his reputation is not excelled.  His word is considered as good as a bond, and he enjoys the confidence of all who know him.  Among those who enjoy the acquaintance of his amiable wife, she also is highly esteemed, and it affords us pleasure to represent so highly respected a couple in this volume.  Their home is on section 28, Moorefield Township, and comprises one hundred and twenty-six and one-third acres of land, in the accumulation and improvement of which Mr. Young has been ably assisted by his wife.  They also own a lot in the city of Springfield.  The parents of our subject were Jacob H. and Mary Young, whose home was in Carroll County, Md.  There our subject was born Feb. 20, 1821, and lost his father by death when about fifteen months old.  His mother being poor, the child was reared in the family of Samuel Bollinger of the same county, with whom he continued to reside until he had reached man’s estate.  When Jacob Young had just entered his teens, Mr. Bollinger removed to Ohio, of which State our subject has since been a continuous resident.  His education was mostly obtained in the early subscription schools of this county, the temple of learning being a log cabin with slab benches and other primitive furnishings.  With a desire for knowledge, Mr. Young has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded by books and converse with his fellow men, to become well posted regarding the more important topics of general information, and the current events in the world’s history.      The youth of Mr. Young was spent on a farm, and in his twenty-first year he began to learn the business of grist-milling, which he followed some sixteen years.  For over twenty years he was in the employ of Adam Baker, in German Township, working on a farm, in a gristmill, and at times in a sawmill.  In the fall of 1859, he and his family settled at their present place of abode, their first dwelling being a log cabin.  He afterward erected his present residence, and brought his estate to its present condition of improvement and productiveness.  He and his wife have seen the country grow into a prosperous and well developed section, and rejoice in the progress which they have borne a share in securing.      The marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Melissa Hollinger, took place Nov. 4, 1847. The bride was a daughter of Abram and Rosana (McIntire) Hollinger, and was born in Champaign County, Feb. 14, 1827.  Her father was a native of Virginia, and was brought to Ohio when about two years old.  Her mother was a native of Champaign County, in which Grandfather McIntire was an early settler.  The family of our subject and wife comprises the following sons and daughters: Samuel, who now lives in Springfield; Susanna, who is the wife of Samuel Finton, of Springfield Township; John H. and Jacob, who live in Springfield; Albert and Luther, in Lagonda; Martha E., the wife of Harmon Krauss of Springfield; Mary, the wife of George Snyder, of Moorefield Township; Oscar, Edson, Cora, and Elenora, who are yet at home.      Mr. Young has served as School Director, and has frequently been solicited to act in important township offices, but would not accept.  In his political views he is independent, believing that the best men should be elected to office, irrespective of party prejudices.  He and his wife belong to the United Brethren Church, at Bowlusville, and he is at present filling the office of Trustee.  The worthy couple are now enjoying the fruits of industrious and well spent lives, surrounded by children and friends, and manifesting as they ever have done, an interest in all that is elevating and uplifting, and which will advance the material prosperity of the county.  Having had no financial assistance in early life, their success is more creditable, and all who know them rejoice in the prosperity which has attended their labors. Source:  Portrait Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio, Published Chicago: Chapman Bros. - 1890 - Page 649

LUTHER F. YOUNG, Police Judge of Springfield, has already won an enviable reputation among his professional brethren as a lawyer of pronounced ability, whose legal attainments amply qualify him for the high position he has attained thus early in his career at the bar.  He is an honor to this his native city, where he was born Nov. 16, 1856.  Lewis Young, his father, was born in Middletown, Frederick County, Md., a son of Daniel Young, who was a native of the same town, while his father, Conrad Young, was of German birth. He came to America in the last century, and located in Middletown, Md., and the farm that he then purchased is still in the family, owned and occupied by his grandson, Jacob Young.  He passed his remaining years in the home that he established there.  The grandfather of our subject was reared to agricultural pursuits on the homestead where he was born.  In 1840 he visited Ohio, making the entire journey both ways on horseback.  In 1851 he revisited this State, and bought a large farm of three hundred and twenty acres in Springfield Township, of which two hundred acres were cleared.  He continued his residence on his Maryland farm until 1864, when he came to Clark County, and bought a home adjoining the farm that he had previously purchased, and there his death occurred Dec. 4, 1886, at the venerable age of ninety-one years.  The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Bowlus.  She was born in Middletown, Md., and died there in 1858.  She was the mother of thirteen children, ten of whom were reared to maturity.  The father of our subject was bred to agricultural pursuits, and continued to live in his native town until 1852, when he came to Springfield and settled on the farm that his father had purchased here the year before.  He was actively engaged in its management until 1867, when he returned to Maryland and bought a farm in the town of his birth, and made his home there until death ended his mortal career Sept. 7, 1882.  The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Elizabeth Arnold, and she was born near Burkittsville, Frederick County, Md., her father, Peter Arnold, being a native of the same county, and, it is thought, of English descent.  Mrs. Young is still living on the home farm in Maryland.  With the exception of our subject, her children, Calvin, Albert, Alice and Mary live with her.      The son, of whom we write, was the second child of the family.  As soon as large enough he assisted in the farm work when not attending the district school, where he gleaned his early education.  When but a boy in his teens, he went to work in a machine shop, and desirous to obtain more learning, he carefully saved his earnings, and eventually had enough money to pay his way through college and became a student at Wittenberg, where he devoted himself assiduously to his studies, attaining good rank in his classes, and was graduated in 1882.  His ambition pointed to the bar, and he at once entered upon the study of law with J. K. Mower, and in 1885 was admitted to practice in the courts of this State.  He opened at once in this city, and entered upon his professional career, in which he has met with such gratifying success.  In 1887 he was selected to fill the position of Police Judge, as it was seen that he had qualities that peculiarly fitted him for the place, and so well did he administer the affairs of the office, that he was reelected to the same position in 1889, and the fact that he ran ahead of the ticket shows his great popularity.  He presides with dignity and tact over the proceedings of the court, and his decisions are marked with even justice, with a thorough knowledge of the law as applied to the class of criminals that are tried under his jurisdiction, and he is inflexible in the discharge of his official duties, and it is conceded by all parties is incorruptible.  He is a man of social prominence, and is a valued member of Clark Lodge, No. 101, A. F. & A. M.; of Springfield Chapter, No. 48, R. A. M., and of Springfield Council, No. 17, R. & S. M.      Judge Young was united in marriage with Miss Annie Baker in 1885, and thus secured the sympathy and encouragement of a true wife.  Mrs. Young was born in Frederick County, Md., and is a daughter of Jacob and Rachel Baker. Source:  Portrait Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio, Published Chicago: Chapman Bros. - 1890 - Page 484

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