BIOGRAPHIES

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HISTORY of CITY OF TOLEDO and LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
Illustrated
Clark Waggoner, Editor
Publ. New York & Toledo:
Munsell & Company, Publishers
1888
 

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Charles L. Young

CHARLES L. YOUNG was born in Albany, New York, Nov. 23, 1838.  He is the son of Eli and Eleanor (Thomas) Young.  The father was of Dutch ancestry and was born at Caughnawaga, Montgomery County, New York.  The mother is of Welsh descent, and was born in Albany.  The family remained in that City until the outbreak of the late Rebellion, when they removed to Buffalo, the father then retiring from active business life, and dying there in 1876, aged 70 years.  The son's education was obtained at different Institutions in his native State, and chiefly at the Albany Academy and Professor Charles H. Anthony's Classical Institute, in the same City, where he was graduated.  Early in life, it became his purpose to adopt the legal profession, from which his mind was turned by the War of the Rebellion, and in which he was so injured as to forbid the pursuit of sedentary life.  In April, 1861, he guarded recruits as a Zouave cadet.  In May, 1861, assisted by the Hon. J. K. Porter, LL. D., he took an active part in recruiting men for General Sickles's Excelsior Brigade, subsequently so distinguished for its service.  He was commissioned First Lieutenant June 13, 1861, and assigned to First Regiment, Excelsior Brigade.  He became an officer of General Sickle's Staff, and through McClellan's Peninsular Campaign served on the Staff of General Joe Hooker.  After the battle of Williamsburgh he was promoted to a Captancy, dating from May 6, 1862.  He was recommended as Major by Generals Hooker and Nelson Taylor, July 28, 1862, following the Peninsular Campaign.  General Hooker, in recommending him for promotion, wrote: "Captain Young, late of my Staff, has been in all the engagements with his command, and has been distinguished for good conduct and gallantry.  He is an excellent officer, and in all respects deserving of your favorable consideration.  He is a young officer, but with his present experience is qualified to fill a Majority in any Regiment."  In Pope's Virginia campaign (1862) he commanded his Regiment, which participated in the memorable battles of Bristoe Station, Groveton, Bull Run and Chantilly; and he was probably the youngest officer in command of a Regiment.  After this campaign General Sickles announced the subject of this sketch an Assistant Inspector General in the Third Army Corps.  During the battle of Chancellorsville (May 3, 1863), and when engaged in executing an order from the Corps Commander (General Sickles), he was struck near the jugular vein by a fragment of a shell, severing the external carotid artery, and at the time was supposed to be fatally wounded.  On May 2d, at Chancellorsville, after the line of the Eleventh Corps broke, and the Second Division of the Third Army Corps, under Major General Berry, pressed forward in the line of battle, General Sickles ordered Major Young to remain with General Berry and report the situation.  Upon General Berry's suggestion, this young officer passed along the entire line of battle, directing that breastworks be thrown up.  So, when on the third morning of May, General Stonewall Jackson threw his exultant and almost irresistible legions against Hooker's old Division, he found an artificial was, together with a living one, more than a match for his splendid generalship.  It was here that General Berry lost his life.  After conveying this intelligence to General Sickles, and while riding back over the field with an order to General Whipple, commander of Third Division, Third Army Corps, Assistant Inspector General Young was wounded.  The story of how the young soldier, with the assistance of an orderly, found an ambulance, and in turn reached a steam transport, and finally, the hospital at Washington, where he recovered, is something remarkable.  In response to a general order for all officers to return to the field.  He was again disabled in the spring of 1864 in the Wilderness campaign, but did not leave the field.  He was with his command in all the battles in which it engaged, including Grant's campaign of the Wilderness Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and other historic engagements).  He served on the Staffs of Generals Hooker, Sickles, Wm. R. Brewster and others, as Aide-de-Camp; as Provost Marshal, as Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Inspector-General; was in the Inspector-General's Department of General Hancock's Second Army Corps.  At Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, in response to a call for volunteers by General J. H. Hobart Ward, Assistant Inspector General Young, and Assistant Adjutant General Ayres of General Mott's staff, galloped upon the breastworks at the "bloody angle."  These were the only volunteers, and only General Ward and Young returned, Ayres fell, riddled with bullets.  He (Young) was commissioned and brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel after close of war, "for gallant and meritorious services during the war of the Rebellion."  On Jan. 14, 1878, he was appointed Quartermaster General and Commissary General of Subsistence on Governor R. M. Bishop's Staff, with rank of Brigadier-General with consent of the Senate of Ohio, and accompanied the Governor on his official visit to the Dominion Exposition of Canada.  He located in the business at Buffalo, in 1866, remaining there until coming to Toledo in 1869, as representative of the large Lumber firm of Sears, Holland & Co., established in 1835.  He became the manager of the firm at Toledo.  In 1873, upon the death of F. B. Sears, the Toledo branch was reorganized as Nelson Holland & Co., General Young being the resident partner and manager.  In 1884 this firm was burned out, when its business was transferred to Young & Miller (C. L. Young and Geo. A. Miller), which firm has been, and still is, active and successful in the extension and management of the trade,  Politically, General Young has always been a Democrat, and since his residence in Toledo has been repeatedly urged to accept public positions.  In 1883, he was candidate for Mayor of Toledo, not being elected, though running against great odds and coming within 87 votes of success in a total vote of about 10,000.  The only public office held by him was that of Park Commissioner, of which Board he is President.  During the serious Railway strikes of 1877, General Young was active in support of law and order, and co-operated effectively toward the organized steps taken for the protection of the public peace.  Jan. 9, 1880, he received from his comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ohio National Guard and other fellow-citizens, a General officer's sword, belt and sash, of superior material and workmanship, with appropriate inscription.  Upon the death of General Hooker, the family presented General Young with the sash worn by that officer throughout the War, as a memento to him as a former Staff officer of "Fighting Joe.  He was an active member of Forsyth Post No. 15, and is now of Toledo Post, No. 107, Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic; of the Staff of Commander-in-Chief Earnshaw, in 1879; was a member of the National Council of Administration in 1880; was elected Senior Vice Commander in-Chief of the National Encampment in 1881; and was subsequently a Financial and Property Trustee of Forsyth Post.  He is also a member of the following military organizations:  The Third Army Corps Union; the Second Corps Club; the Society of the Army of the Potomac; the Society of the Army of West Virginia; a Charter Companion of the West Virginia; a Charter Companion of the Ohio Commander of the Loyal Legion; Vice President of Toledo Soldiers' Memorial Association; a Director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association; an Honorary Member of the Ohio State National Guard Officers' Association; and an Honorary member of the Continental Guards, of New Orleans.  He is a member of De Molay Masonic Lodge 498, of Buffalo, New York.  General Young was married January, 1871, to Miss Cora M. Day, of Boston, a daughter of Albert Day, M. D.  Her ancestors were among the more prominent families of New England.  Her grandfather, General Jotham Moulton, of York, commanded the Eastern Division of the Revolutionary Army at Bunker Hill; his grandfather (Colonel Jeremiah Moulton) commanding at the reduction of Noridgework, Maine, in 1724, and participating in the siege of Louisburg, in 1744.  Her father is an eminent Physician, and represented Boston in the State Legislature.  During the War, Mrs. Young helped to establish the first "Contraband" (Colored) School opened in Boston, which gratuitous work was continued until her health became impaired.  Since coming to Toledo she has been actively identified with various works of Christian charity and benevolence - including Forsyth Post Auxiliary Society and Woman's Relief Corps No. 1; the Toledo Home for Friendless Women (Old Ladies' Home), and the Adams Street Mission.  Is now National Senior Vice-President of the Woman's Relief corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.  Three children have been born to General and Mrs. Young - Emma (deceased), Nelson Holland and Eleanor Martha.  General Young formerly was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but is now connected with the Central Congregational Church, Toledo, Rev. H. M. Bacon, D. D., Pastor.  His paternal ancestors were among the earliest attendants on the Reformed Dutch Church of New York; while his mother's family were identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was one of the founders of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, Toledo, and has been actively connected with various movements having in view the growth and prosperity of Toledo; as also whatever promised the promotion of sound morals and good order among his fellowmen. Source:  Story of City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers - 1888 - Page 774

Saml. M. Young

SAMUEL M. YOUNG, Lawyer and Capitalist, was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Dec. 29, 1806.  He was a son of Samuel Young, a leading architect and builder, a member of the State Legislature and a citizen highly esteemed.  The son's educational advantages were such as that section then furnished, including Academies.  His course of studies completed, he turned his attention to the law, which he read with John M. Pomeroy, of Burlington, Vermont.  This completed, he turned his attention to the matter of a location for his life work; and in May, 1835, came to Lucas County, settling at Maumee, where he opened an office and began, in a very small way, the practice of his profession.  It so happened that his advent here was made during the memorable boundary controversy, known as the "Toledo War."  His location at Maumee, outside the disputed territory, relieved him of personal participation in that contest; but upon the organization of Lucas County, the same year, he was appointed as its first Auditor, which position he held for two years.  In 1838, Morrison R. Waite (now the Chief Justice of the United States), then a young man and a graduate of Yale college, came to Maumee from Lyme, Connecticut, for the practice of the law; and at once entered the office of Mr. Young, where he pursued the year's study requisite under the laws of Ohio.  This preparation completed, he was admitted to the Bar.  The subsequently well-known firm of Young & Waite was then organized and continued in practice there until the removal of the County-seat from Maumee to Toledo, in1852.  In 1850, an office had been opened at Toledo, in charge of Mr. Waite, who then removed to that City.  Mr. Young retired from the practice in 1856.  Meantime, having turned his attention to banking, in 1855, with others, he purchased the Bank of Toledo, a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, with which he was actively as well as financially identified until it was reorganized, under the National Banking law in 1865, as the Toledo National Banking law in 1865, as the Toledo National Bank.  Of this he was chosen President, in which position, without interruption, he has continued to this time (1887).  Toledo has been Mr. Young's place of residence since his removal there in 1860, he having then purchased a fine residence on Madison Street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth.  In 1862, he became associated with Abner L. Backus, in the firm of Young & Backus, who built the large Elevators, on Water Street, near Adams, designed more especially for Canal Grain traffic.  That firm, after a continuance of 18 years, was succeeded by that of A. L. Backus & Sons.  In the practice of hte law, Mr. Young early attained a prominent position, the firm, almost from the first, having been recognized as at the head of the Bar of Northwestern Ohio.  This attainment was largely due to Mr. Young's sound judgment, thorough education and painstaking are in the study and preparation of cases.  At an early date, he became interested in the toll-bridge crossing the River, connecting Maumee and Perrysburg, which, from repeated severe damage from floods, in time fell wholly into his hands, costing in all some $36,000.  In 1877 it was purchased by Lucas and Wood Counties jointly, and made free.  In 1852-53 Mr. Young became identified, as Stockholder and Director, with the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, then in progress of construction, and continued such relation until that Road was merged into the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.  He was the largest Stockholder and a Director in the Columbus and Toledo Railroad, and continued in such relation until the Road was consolidated with the Columbus and Hocking Valley Road, and the organization of the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad.  In 1866, he bought a large portion of the stock of the Toledo Gas Light and Coke Company; was active in its reorganization and the extension of its business, having been its President to this time.  He was one of the projectors and organizers of the Toledo Hotel Company, in 1870, which in 1872 completed and still owns the Boody House, Northwest corner of Madison and St. Clair Streets.  He has served as President of that corporation since August, 1870.  The erection of that house, which was opened in 1872, has been a matter of great value to Toledo.  Mr. Young's political views and affiliations were formed during the Adams and Jackson Administrations, he becoming identified with the Whig party, then led by Clay and Webster with which organization he continued to act until it was merged into the Republican party, of which he has since been a member.  For the past fifty years he has uniformly declined public position, having at no time held office, save that of County Auditor, for services in which from Sept. 14, 1835, to June 9, 1837 (21 months), he was paid the sum of $361.63.  Throughout the War of the Rebellion, he was in sympathy and actively on the side of loyalty, contributing his share to the support of that cause.  In religious views and sympathies he has long been identified with the Protestant Episcopal Church, and its several ecclesiastical and charitable institutions; while he has at all times supported whatever cause he deemed calculated to promote the moral well-being of his fellowmen.  He is eminently a self-made man, so far as human destiny depends on self-reliance and independent effort.  His success in life has been due chiefly to these qualities applied in methodical and persistent work, attended by an economical course of living.  He was married in 1841 with Miss Angeline L. Upton, step-daughter of Dr. Horatio Conant of Maumee.  They have four children - Horatio S. and Frank I., constituting the firm of Young Brothers, Produce and Commission Merchants;  Mrs. Helen E., wife of Frank B. Swayne; and Morrison Waite, all of Toledo. Source:  Story of City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers - 1888 - Page 499