Senator Daniel H. Young

YOUNG, ROBB, MCINNIS, CROSIER

Posted By: Danita Young Smith
Date: 3/22/2007 at 10:02:12

Manchester Pres
Manchester, Iowa
July 30, 1936

Former Senator D. H. Young Dies

Dan H. Young, who at one time represented Delaware County in the general assembly, died at the state hospital in Independence on Monday, July 27, 1936, at the age of 79 years. Mr. Young entered the hospital several months ago after a long period of decline. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon from the Platt funeral home, the Rev. James McInnis officiating and burial was made in Oakland cemetery.

A son of the late Samuel R. and Sarah E. Young, Mr. Young was born in this city Jan. 9, 1857, although his early life was passed on his father's farm in Milo township. After taking a course in civil engineering at the state university at Iowa City he formed a partnership with his brother, Wirt W. Young, and engaged in bridge building and road construction. His handiwork still exists in a part of the roadway of the Illinois Central branch leading to Cedar Rapids, in the Manchester standpipe and in the sturdy bridge over the Maquoketa at the foot of West Main street. Prior to that, however, he built a bridge across the river at the foot of Franklin street, later superseded by the present concrete structure.

Upon retiring from the legislature, where he served both as representative and senator, Mr. Young engaged in the publication of the Delaware County News, conducting that paper for several years. His marriage to Miss Laura Belle Robb of Withamsville, O., took place Dec. 29, 1878, and he is survived by his widow and two children -- Samuel Ross Young of Cincinnati, O., and Mrs. Bert C. Crosier of this place. A grandson, Daniel H. Young, of Cincinnati, also survives him. Mr. Young had been a member of the Masonic order, and in earlier life was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the I.O.O.F., and the M. W. A.

It would be difficult for the younger generation to recognize in the faltering step and weakened frame of this pioneer citizen the active, vigorous man who in middle life played so prominent a part in the activities of this city and county. For years Mr. Young was the dominant political figure of this part of Iowa, with a large following of loyal friends who counted it a privilege to serve under him. For years, too, he became know over Iowa as a bridge contractor whose work was invariably of the best. He was by nature kindly, generous, and companionable, and his old friends, few of whom lamentably, survive him, mourn his death and will long hold him in memory.

Oakland Cemetery
 

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