YOUNG, Edward Ames -1931

YOUNG, ANKENY, BURKE, BURGESSER, HANCOCK

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 8/1/2002 at 23:22:01

The Clinton Herald Friday November 13, 1931 p. 5 Edward A. Young, son of the late William J. and Esther Young, pioneer residents of Clinton, passed away Thursday evening at the home of his brother, C.H. Young, 327 Seventh avenue, south, long the family residence. Private funeral services are to be held at the house at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The body will be laid to rest in the Young family mausoleum in Springdale Cemetery. Mr. Young succumbed to an illness which had its inception in Chicago in March, 1930. In June of that year he was brought to the home of his brother here and had been recuperating. A relapse, suffered Tuesday of this week, however, was so severe that it failed to respond to medical attention. A native of Clinton, Mr. Young had been active in Clinton business interests throughout the years of his majority. At the time of his demise, he was president of the Clinton National bank, vice president of the Clinton Savings bank, treasurer of the Clinton Street Railway Co., vice president of W.J. Young & Co., founded by his father in the summer of 1858 and which became one of Clinton's largest and most prominent lumber industries. He also had various other business connections and interests. Possessed of a pleasing, affable disposition, a keen consciousness of fair-dealing in business and of kindliness in public contacts, he surrounded himself with a wide circle of sincere friends, who today expressed profound sorrow over his passing. One of his delights was found in travel and as a result he had visited practically every country in the known world. He found some of his greatest happiness in discussing his trips with friends who were likewise interested in world travel. His love for association with his fellow men was reflected in his club and fraternal connections, which included membership in the Wapsipinicon club, the Clinton Country club and the Clinton lodge, 199, B.P.O. Elks, in Clinton and the Chicago club in Chicago. Left to mourn his passing are his wife, nee Molly Ankeny; his daughter, Mrs. Jerome C. Burke, now of Kansas City, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Esther Young Burgesser of Chicago and Mrs. Mary Y. Hancock of Clinton; and two brothers, William J. Young, Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., and C.H. Young of Clinton. W.J. Young passed away in 1896 and Mrs. W.J. Young, in 1925. A sister, Miss Jane Young, died in 1905. Pallbearers for the funeral tomorrow will be selected from banking and other business institutions with which the deceased was connected. The family today requested that flowers be omitted.