JOHN
YOUNG, deceased, was born about the year 1776in Franklin County,
Penn. His father, William Young, came to what is now Lawrence County in
1804. John Young, the father of William, had preceded him to Lawrence
County two years. He settled about six miles south of Mercer, and
William died there. William married Mary Elder, by whom he had eight
children: John, David, Elizabeth (married John Sankey, a relative of
the great evangelist, Ira D. Sankey), Margaret (married David
Summerville), James, Mary (married John McCandless), William, Jane
(married James Small). John Young was a minister of the United
Presbyterian Church, and went to Illinois in 1840, where he soon after
died. His widow died in 1864, and had blessed him with five children:
Nancy, married David Manuel; Jane, married Robert Elder, and lives in
Lawrence County; William, died in 1861: James W. and John, the latter a
resident of Lawrence County. James W. was educated in the common
schools, and married Mary McGoun, and had eight children, seven of whom
are living: Maria, married Andrew Fox; Margaret, married Aaron
Hingston; John, Fannie, Robert, Isabella and Sarah. James Young settled
on his present farm in Findley Township in the spring of 1867. He and
his wife belong to the First Presbyterian Church of Mercer. His son,
John, who assists in the management of the farm, was a soldier in the
One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisting in 1864. He
and his father are Democrats, and among the enterprising citizens of
the township.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 973
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