Carroll W Young

YOUNG GALLUP QUINLAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 22:01:04

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Carroll W Young
By Carroll Young

Carroll Wilson Young, son of Arthur and Martha (Gallup) Young, was born June 21, 1907, at the farm home five miles north of Ashton, Spink County, South Dakota.

Arthur Young was born at Oak Bay, New Brunswick, Canada in 1875. He had an older sister, Amy and a younger brother, Harry. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. S C Young. S C Young was of the second generation of the Young family who had migrated form England and established a boat building yard near the Bay of Fundy. He met his wife when she moved to New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Her maiden name was Wilson. As a young man, Arthur Young left the area and attended business college in New Hampshire, USA. He worked in that area for a time and came to Ashton, Spink County, South Dakota in 1898. His mother’s first cousin, J K Wilson, lived in Ashton.

Martha Gallup was born on Claremont Street near Dodge Center, Minnesota, in 1866 and moved with her parents to Spink County, South Dakota in 1884 where her father had homesteaded a quarter section of land and also taken a tree claim. Six children accompanied their parents, and the family acquired several quarters of land. Lumber for their large New England style home which still stands at ‘Gallup’ was hauled from Watertown, a distance of seventy miles. (A good account of the Gallup family can be found in the book, Prairie Echoes, Spink County in the Making written by Dana D Marlow of Redfield, South Dakota, in about 1960.

Arthur Young and Martha Gallup were married in 1904 and acquired and made their home on the Gallup homestead and farmed additional land. Two children were born to this union. Noyes was born in 1905 and Carroll in 1907. They attended the country school and graduated from Ashton High School.

In 1927 Carroll Young, married Hazel Quinlan of Ashton, South Dakota, daughter of William L and Sadie (Shoop) Quinlan. Hazel’s birth date was February 12, 1909. She was also a graduate of Ashton High School and received her teacher’s certificate from Northern State College in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She taught for a short time in rural schools in Spink County.

Carroll rented some land near the home place and their first crop of heat [wheat] was harvested in 1928. They farmed in the Gallup, South Dakota area until 1941, years which included the drouth [drouth], dust storms, and grasshopper invasion year of the 1930’s.
Gallup, South Dakota at that time consisted of a grain elevator, coal sales and stock yards for loading out livestock. The Milwaukee Railroad was built from Mitchell to Aberdeen in the 1880s and the right of way went through the Gallup homestead quarter. A farmer’s elevator was built in about 1914 and the station was named Gallup. There no business of any kind there at the present time.

Two children were born to Carroll and Hazel Young. Max was born in 1928 and Betty in 1931.

In 1941 they moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where Carrroll had accepted a position as a Meat Inspector with the U S Department of Agriculture. They purchased a home in 1942 which is located at 3406 Transit Avenue in Morningside.

Carroll worked as meat inspector for over thirty years and retired in 1972. He also became interested in the BAI Sioux City Credit Union and served on the Board of Directors for thirty seven-years. He was Treasurer Manager for many years, operating it from the basement office in the home for about ten years. He retired from the credit union board in 1982.

The family joined Grace United Methodist Church soon after coming to Sioux City and they were involved in Sunday School and the Boy Scout Troop there. Carroll belonged to several Masonic organizations and Hazel to the Eastern Star.

Hazel died April 4, 1975, and was buried in the family plot at Ashton, South Dakota. Max still makes his home with his father and daughter, Betty, now Mrs. E Lindy Carlberg, lives in Wheeling, Illinois.

There are five grandchildren form the Carlberg union: Ruth Anne, Mery Lou, John, David and Paul. Twin daughters born to Ruth Anne and John Kyle were baptized on Christmas Day, 1983, in Wheeling, Illinois. Their names are Rebecca Ruth and Katherine Anne. John was married in January, 1983 and he and his wife, Brenda live in the Wheeling area.