Joe H. Young

YOUNG, ANDERSON

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/18/2014 at 12:36:16

EX-RIVER PILOT, LECLAIRE NATIVE, TAKEN BY DEATH

Word of the death of Joe H. Young, 78, native of LeClaire, Iowa, and captain on a Mississippi river steamboat for 50 years, who died at his home in San Diego, Calif., was received here Monday.

Capt. Young began his career on the Mississippi river at the age 10, and was a steamboat captain from the time he was 21 until he retired in 1935.

He had resided in San Diego for the last six years. Surviving are his wife, Mabel E. Young; two children, Edith Young Anderson and Donald Young, and four grandchildren.

Funeral services and burial were held in San Diego.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader, Davenport, Ia., 18 May 1942, p.15.