Alfred A. Young

As printed in 1910

ALFRED A. YOUNG.

One of the most painstaking farmers and highly respected citizens of Lexington township, Lafayette county, is Alfred A. Young, a man who has devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits in this locality, and while he has been successful in a material way he has also won a name for uprightness and fidelity to duty. He is the representative of one of the excellent pioneer families of this locality. His birth occurred in Paris county, Missouri, on Shave Tater creek, December 12, 1831, and he is the son of Major A. G. and Elizabeth Young, the father a native of Tennessee and the mother of Virginia, the father of English and the mother of Irish descent. They came to Missouri in the fall of 1830, and after spending a short time in Cooper and Johnson counties, located in Lafayette county, where the Major became the owner of a large farm and was an influential man among the early settlers. He was the first Presbyterian to come to Lexington, and he took a great deal of interest in church and school work.

Alfred A. Young moved onto his present place on November 3, 1857, it being a part of the old homestead. He has from time to time added many excellent improvements and now has one of the choice farms of the vicinity, which, although an old place, has been so carefully tilled that the soil has not lost any of its original strength. His farm consists of one hundred and sixteen acres and he carries on general farming in a very successful manner. He has a picturesque old home.

Mr. Young was married on June 25, 1857, to Caroline Battie, a daughter of William and Rohada Battie, natives of Virginia, who came to Missouri in pioneer days and located on a farm, becoming successful farmers in Lafayette county.

Mrs. Young was called to her rest on April 7, 1906. Their family consisted of nine children, namely: Charles B. lives in Oklahoma; Mary married Rev. John E. Whiting, a Methodist minister, and they reside in Santiago, California; Antonette married Alfonso Hawk, and they live in Chicago; Ella is deceased; Carrie married A. L. Maxwell, a banker of Denver, Colorado; Rhoda B., who remained a member of the home circle, died in 1908; Arthur G. is living at home; Susan, the fifth child in order of birth, died in 1882 when seventeen years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Presbyterian church, and politically Mr. Young is a Democrat.

As printed in Young's history of Lafayette County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.