H. R. YOUNG

YOUNG

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 15:30:36

H. R. YOUNG has been a resident of Adams county for twenty years, and is well known here. Briefly given, his biography is as follows:

H. R. Young was born in Connecticut, August 28, 1847. His father, Josiah Young, was born in Connecticut, the descendant of an old New England family. Grandfather Young was a fifer in the war of 1812. The maiden name of Mr. Young's mother was Mary Ann Corbin. She was a native of Massachusetts, as was also her father, Royal Corbin. Her grandfather Corbin was of French descent and was a Revolutionary soldier. Josiah Young and his family left Connecticut in 1855 and came west to Iowa, settling near DeWitt, in Clinton county. He and his wife, the former sixty-eight and the latter sixty-six years old, are now residents of Prescott, this State. They reared a family of six children, three sons and three daughters. Of these the subject of our sketch was the second- born. He was a lad of seven years when his father came to Iowa, and here on a farm he was reared, receiving his education in the public schools.

In 1870 Mr. Young settled on wild land, for some time spending his summers at work on his farm and his winters in the eastern part of the State. In this way he improved 120 acres, on which he made his home until recently. In 1891 he located on his present farm, 160 acres in section 36, Carl township, which he purchased of W. A. Bonar. He has this year erected an attractive cottage home, and is now comfortably situated to enjoy life. The old farm, located in section 28, he still owns and has it rented. On each place is a good orchard.

Mr. Young was married in March, 1876, to Miss Sarah C. Leonard, who was born, reared and educated in Ogle county, Illinois, and was before her marriage a popular and efficient teacher. Her father, Hiram Leonard, was born in Ohio, of Scotch ancestry, and her mother, nee Sarah Randall, was a native of Delaware county, Ohio. Her father was among the early settlers of Ogle county, Illinois ,having settled there in 1835. Hiram Leonard died at the home of his son, Flagg Center, on the morning of February 14, 1888, of kidney trouble, aged seventy-eight years. Deceased came to Ogle county in February, 1835, locating a large claim at Washington Grove, a few years later moving to another farm in Flagg township. Six of his thirteen children, John, Ransom, Sarah George, Allen and Edward, survive him. He leaves as legacy to his children the record of a well-spent life and large property. Mrs. Leonard died at the same place. In their family of thirteen children, only six, five sons and Mrs. Young, reached adult age. Mr. and Mrs. Young have five children: Sadie A., Josie A., Mabel A., Grover A. and William Harrison.

Politically Mr. Young is a Democrat. He is a man of the strictest integrity, is frank and cordial with all, and occupies a place among the worthy and respected citizens of Carl township.