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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Madison County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
Chester E. Bryan, Supervising Editor
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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J. J. YERIAN Source: History of Madison County, Ohio
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Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1915 - Page 584 |
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SEYMOUR P. YOUNG
was born in Dec. 11, 1864, in Pleasant township, Madison
county, Ohio, and is of German descent. He is the son
of Frederick and Lucinda (Kaufelt) Young, to whom
nine children were born, seven of whom are still living.
Seymour P. Young is the youngest child and only son.
His father, Frederick Young, was born in 1812, in
Germany, immigrating to America when a young man and
locating in Pickaway county, Ohio, where he bought land and
farmed, later removing to Madison county, Ohio. He
continued to cultivate the soil until his death, which
occurred on Apr. 23, 1866. His mother, Lucinda (Kaufelt)
Young, was born in 1825, in Ohio, and died on Mar. 28,
1889.
The only son of thrifty German parents, Seymour P.
Young possessed but little knowledge of his parents, his
father having died when he was but two years of age and he
was bereft of a mother when a young man twenty-five years of
age. Reared to farm life and obtaining his education
at the old Douglas district school of Pleasant township,
Seymour P. Young, at the early age of twenty-one years,
began farming for himself. He purchased the old home
place, on which he made extensive improvements. This
property he cultivated most successfully and also engaged in
the raising of stock becoming very prosperous. In 1912
Mr. Seymour removed to Mt. Sterling, Ohio, where he
owns a fine home on East Main Street. He is a
stockholder in the First National bank and is the owner of
one hundred and forty-two acres of well-improved land.
At the age of twenty-one years, on Dec. 31, 1885,
Seymour P. Young took for his life partner Sereatha
Bricker, who was born on Jan. 9, 1864, in Madison
county, Ohio, and who was the daughter of James and Lydia
(Stone) Bricker, both parents being natives of Ohio.
To this marriage of Seymour P. Young and Sereatha Bricker,
two children were born: Frederick, a graduate of the
Mt. Sterling schools, who took a commercial course at
Athens, Ohio, and is now with the Mt. Sterling Building and
Loan Company; and Myrtle L. who is a graduate of the
Mt. Sterling schools and resides with the family.
Politically, a Democrat, a member of the Christian
Church and living up to the precepts of the Knights of
Pythias, of which he is a member, Seymour P. Young,
destitute of a father's care when only a child, yet with his
indomitable will and ability, has paved the way to success
and prospered, carefully educated his children and now in
the prime of manhood he can rest secure with his wife and
family, enjoying the just reward of labors well done.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio
- Illustrated -
Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1915 - Page 844 |
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