JOHN C. YOUNG
John C. Young is one of the early settlers of Grant township, where he located in the spring of 1874. He is a native of Pennsylvania and was born October 6, 1838. He was married May 14, 1860, to Elizabeth A. Brinckley, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1842. They are the parents of four children---Fremont, now of Dakota; Pyra A., Etta May and James W. In 1872 he left Pennsylvania and came to Jasper county, Iowa, locating near Prairie City, where he was employed as a laborer. As before stated, he came to this county in 1874, and purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land. He commenced a poor man, but by judicious management has accumulated a good property, and is now in the enjoyment of a competence honestly gained, and a home fairly won.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 688-689.
