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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883
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Clinton
Twp. -
CLARK YAGER.
The Yagers are of German descent. The first
we learn of them is in Pennsylvania. It was here
that George Yager was born, in 1796.
He married Margaret Craig and moved to
Knox County, Ohio. Here, in 1822, Clark
Yager was born. From Knox they moved to Butler
County, where Clark grew to manhood and learned
the milling trade. In 1841 he went to Piqua and
worked in A mill; from there he went to Indiana, next to
Michigan, then back to Piqua, from there to Dayton, from
Dayton to Wapakoneta in 1859; in 1860 to New Hampshire,
Auglaize Co. In 1862 he came to Sidney and run the
Walker Mills, which he bought in 1879.
These mills were among the first in the county.
They have three run of buhrs, with two turbine wheels.
In 1844 Mr. Yager was married to Miss
Ellen Thomas. From this marriage there have
been born five children, viz., Mary, Charles,
George, Edward, and Maggie.
Source: History of Shelby
County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. -
1883 - Page 386 |
Dinsmore Twp. -
ADAM YOUNG, son of Philip and
Nancy Young, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, Apr.
1, 1820. He came to Shelby County with his father,
and located in Franklin Township in 1830, where he grew
to manhood on a farm. He has made farming his
principal vocation, and now owns a farm of eighty acres
in section 26, Dinsmore Township, on which he has
resided since 1854. Mar. 11, 1841, he married
Miss Mary Noland, daughter of Wesley and Martha
Noland. Miss Noland was born in Adams
County, Ohio, Apr. 25, 1822, and came to Shelby County
with her parents in 1839. By this union he reared
a family of seven children, viz., Philip W., Keziah
A., John R., William R. H., Eliza, Druzilla C., and
Martha O. Keziah A. is now dead.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 244 |
Franklin
Twp. -
ADAM YOUNG, deceased, was born in
Berkeley County, Virginia, Dec. 25, 1798. He was a
son of Charles Young, who entered the
revolutionary army at the age of sixteen years, and
served six years and six months in defence of his
country.
Adam Young, subject of this sketch, came to Ohio
when a lad of but sixteen summers, in 1814, and located
in Pickaway County, where he made his home with his
brother Philip Young for two years. In 1818
he married Miss Sarah Crum, daughter of
Anthony and Elizabeth Crum. Mr. and Mrs.
Young for two years. In 1818 he married
Miss Sarah Crum, daughter of Anthony and
Elizabeth Crum. Mr. and Mrs. Young
settled in Pickaway County, Ohio, and remained there
until the fall of 1832, when they came to Shelby County,
and settled in section 35, north of boundary line in
Franklin Township. In 1838 they sold their farm,
and purchased and moved on a farm in Dinsmore Township,
where they passed the remainder of their days.
They reared a family of seven children, viz.,
William, Philip, Eliza A., Martha J., Amos, Diana,
and Jason, all of whom are now living except
Philip. Mrs. Sarah Young died in March, 1865.
Mr. Adam Young died in March, 1871.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 324 |
Van Buren
Twp. -
CHARLES YOUNG was born in Germany,
and came to this county in 1851. He married
Elizabeth Fitzjohn in 1868, and has a family of ten
children.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 254 |
Franklin Twp.
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PHILIP YOUNG,
deceased, an old and
esteemed citizen of Franklin Township, was born near
Martinsbnrg, Virginia, where he passed his minority.
He married Nancy McLain, of Martinsburg,
Va. He came to Ohio with his family some time
prior to the war of 1812, and located in Pickaway
County, where he followed farming in connection with his
trade; which was that of a shoemaker, for a number of
years. His wife died about 1826, leaving him with
a family of eleven children, viz., Mary, Jacob,
Philip, Elizbabeth, Nancy,
Catharine, Adam, Susannah, George,
William, and Stephen M., six of whom are
yet living, viz., Philip, Nancy,
Catharine, Adam, George, and
Stephen M. His second marriage was with
Miss Keziah Curtis, of Pickaway, by
whom he had eleven children, six of whom are still
living, viz., Peter, Ann, Silas D., Melissa J.,
Angeline, and Esther. In about 1830 he
moved to Shelby County with his family, and settled on a
part of section 36, Franklin Township. He died in
1851. His wife, now Mrs. Bierley, is
still living at the advanced age of seventy-four years,
and is residing on the old home farm in section 36,
Franklin Township. Mr. Young served in the
war of 1812. His father, Charles Young,
served under the command of Gen. Washington
in the war of the Revolution.
Source: History
of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA:
R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 324 |
Franklin Twp. -
PHILIP W. YOUNG, Postmaster at
Anna and Dealer in General Hardware, etc. etc.
Mr. Young, a son of Adam and Mary Young,
was born in Mercer County, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1842. In
the beginning of the year 1843 he was brought to Shelby
County by his parents, who located in Dinsmore Township,
where his minority was spent on the farm with his
parents. He received a common school education.
On the 13th day of September, 1861, he enlisted in
Company B, 20th O. V. I., served three years, and was
discharged from the service Sept. 27, 1864, at the
expiration of his term of enlistment. On the 22d
day of July, 1864, while engaged in the battle of
Atlanta, a musket ball entered his right chest,
penetrating the lung, and passing out through the
shoulder blade. After returning from the army he
attended school two years. In the fall of 1865 he
began teaching school, which he followed during the
winter season four years. In March, 1869, he came
to Anna, where he formed a partnership with Lewis
Kah, the firm name being Lewis Kah
& Co., dealers in general merchandise. In the fall of
1872 he withdrew from the firm, and he, in company with
J. D. Elliott, formed a partnership, erected a
building 20 by 40 feet, two stories high, in which they
engaged in dealing in general hardware, under the firm
name of Elliott & Young, who have since conducted
the business with success. Oct. 30, 1869, Mr.
Young married Miss Elizabeth,
daughter of Wesley and Mary Ann Cole, by whom he
has two children, Mary E. and Adonis C.
In the fall of 1872 he was appointed postmaster at Anna.
In April, 1881, he was elected a justice of the peace of
Franklin Township. He has filled the office of
mayor of Anna since the fall of 1878.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 328 |
Franklin Twp. -
SILAS D. YOUNG was born in
Franklin Township, Shelby County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1837.
He is a son of Philip and Keziah Young, who were
early settlers of Shelby County. On the 19th day
of March, 1856, he married Miss Mary J., daughter
of Eli and Margaret Munch. Miss Munch
was born in Dinsmore Township, Shelby County, Ohio, Oct.
4, 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Young settled on his
father’s home farm in Franklin Township, and remained
one year. Mar. 1, 1857, they moved on the farm
near Anna, in Franklin Township, on which they
have since resided. They reared a family of four
children, daughters. Aug. 18, 1861, he enlisted in
Company B, 20th O. V. I., served three years, and was
discharged Sept. 21, 1864, and returned home. He
was engaged in the battles of Champion Hills, May 16,
1862, battle of Atlanta, and several others. While
engaged at Champion Hills, May 16, 1862, he was wounded
by a buckshot passing through his nose.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 327 |
Turtle
Creek Twp. -
STEVEN M. YOUNG
was born in Pickaway County,
Ohio, Apr. 27, 1825. He is a son of Philip and Nancy Young, who came to Shelby County
in 1831, and settled in Franklin Township, where Stephen
M. passed his minority days on the farm with his father.
Dec. 2, 1847, he married Miss Mary A., daughter
of Lewis and Margaret Woodruff, who was born in
Cincinnati Sept. 28, 1824, and came to Shelby County
with her parents Oct. 25, 1836, who settled in
Washington Township two miles south of Hardin.
Mr. and Mrs. Young settled on his father’s farm.
They lived on several different farms in Shelby County
until 1862, when he moved to a farm of forty acres, on
which they have since resided. He now owns a farm
of sixty-four acres. Aug. 18, 1861, he enlisted in
Company B, 20th O. V. I., served until Mar. 16, 1862,
when he was discharged from the service on account of
disability. He filled the office of trustee of
Turtle Creek Township six years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 303 |
Orange Twp. -
THOMAS YOUNG was born in Maryland
in 1766. From there he went to Virginia, where, in
about 1793, he married Mary Parker. The
Youngs are of German descent, the Parkers of
Irish extraction. Shortly after their marriage
they moved to Kentucky, then to Hamilton County, Ohio,
then to Montgomery County, where they lived a few years,
then came to what is now Shelby County about 1808, and
located on section 16, Orange Township, and took a lease
on said school section. The land on which he
settled had been previously settled on by Abram
Cannon in 1806. It was here that Isaac
Young was born Mar. 17, 1810, he being the first
white child born within the present limits of Orange
Township. In 1832 he married Wilmuth
Lucas. They have raised a family of five
children, whose names and date of birth are as follows:
Wallace, born 1833; Lydia, born 1840;
Elizabeth, born 1842; Minerva, born 1844; and
Naaman, born 1849. Mr. Young
is now the oldest settler in the township, and perhaps
in the county, who was born here; he having lived in the
same township, and within one mile of the same place,
for seventy-two years. He cast his first vote for
President for Andrew Jackson, and has
voted at every presidential election since that time;
but after the first election he voted the Whig ticket
until 1856, since which time he has been an unswerving
Republican. Mr. Young has been a
member of the United Brethren Church for over forty
years. He has retired from active life, having
accumulated a competence for the remainder of his life.
He has always had the confidence and esteem of his
neighbors; always doing as he would wish to be done by;
never having had a lawsuit in his life. Mr.
Young says he has bought corn at 8¹/₃ cents per
bushel, and had six months’ time to pay for it.
They sold wheat at 25 cents per bushel and hauled it to
Piqua. To give the history of his commencement in
life, his hardships and privations, would be but to
repeat the old story, so often told. I will close
by giving the manner they used to catch fish before they
were able to buy twine to make seines. They would
make what was called a brush drag or kind of seine made
of brush, and woven together and supported by
grape-vines. A sufficient number of the neighbors
would get together to handle one of these drags; they
would sweep the river from one side to the other, and
sometimes would catch barrels at one haul.
Naaman Young, son of Isaac
Young, was born in Shelby County in 1849, and
married Margaret J. Borton in 1879. They
have two children, viz., Stanley D. and Mary
D.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 191 |
Franklin
Twp. -
WILLIAM YOUNG, Farmer; P. O.,
Anna, Ohio.
Mr. Young, son of Adam and Sarah Young,
was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1819, and
came with his parents to Shelby County in the fall of
1832, and located in Franklin Township. In 1838 he
connected himself with the M. E. church, in which he has
since been an earnest worker, and a few years later he
was licensed as a local minister of the church.
Mar. 25, 1841, he married Miss Louisa Kingrey a
native of Ohio, born near London, Madison County, Mar.
16, 1822.
Mr. and Mrs. Young settled on a farm in Dinsmore
Township, and remained two years. In 1843 they
moved to Salem Township, and remained six years.
In 1843 they moved to Salem Township, and remained six
years. In 1849 he purchased and moved on the farm
where he now resides in section 36, north of boundary
line Franklin Township. Mrs. Young died
June 9, 1858. They reared six children, James
C., Thomas C., Adam B., Rufina, Cynthia J.,
and Sarah E. James C., Thomas C., and
Sarah E. are now deceased. James C.
Young died at Bowling Green, Kentucky, Nov. 27,
1862, while serving in the late war. Mr. Young's
second wife was Mrs. Loretta A. Williams, née
Rairden, by whom he has six children, five sons
and one daughter.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 325 |
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