JOSIAH YOUNG

YOUNG

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 19:44:18

JOSIAH YOUNG, a farmer residing on section 14, Prescott township, was born July 20, 1823, in Connecticut, and began life for himself at the age of eighteen. For fifteen years he worked in a cotton-mill, at $1.25 per day, and saved up $1,000. He then married, in March, 1847, Miss Mary A. Corbin, who was born in Massachusetts in 1825, and whose paternal ancestors were French and maternal, English. She was the seventh child in a family of eleven. Her father was a stone-mason. Both her parents died about 1864, and were buried at Oxford, Massachusetts. Mr. Young's three older children were born in Connecticut, and the others in Clinton county, Iowa, whither he had emigrated in 1855, and where he resided nineteen years. In May, 1874, Mr. Young moved to Adams county, purchasing [land and] proceeding to establish a comfortable home; and in this he has succeeded well, without the assistance of any one. He is good representative farmer and a useful citizen. He has served as school director and for a year [as] supervisor.