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Born 1834
From Young's history of Lafayette County, Missouri (1910)
FRED A. YOUNG.
A man who is deserving of the success he has achieved and the honor he has won is Fred A. Young, a farmer of Lexington township, Lafayette county, who, through a long life of toil and endeavor, of victory and defeat, has performed well his every duty as he has seen and understood it. He has lived to see this locality develop from primitive conditions, from the picturesque old stage-coach and Santa Fe trail to the present, with its modern conveniences of every sort, and it is interesting to hear him tell of the early days and the gradual growth of the county in which he has played well his part in every relation of life. He was born in the vicinity where he now Hves on April 22, 1834, and nearly all of his life has been spent here. He is the son of May. A. G. and Elizabeth Young, the father a native of Tennessee and the mother a native of Virginia, the former of English and the latter of Irish descent. Major Young came to Missouri in the fall of 1830, locating in Cooper county, then lived a short time in Johnson county, and in 1833 located in Lafayette county and became extensively identified with farming interests and was well known among the pioneers.
Fred A. Young of this review grew to maturity on the home farm and he has made farming his life work. When the Civil war came on he sympathized with the South, and enlisted in Rufner's Battery, Clark's brigade, Price's army, and served through the war in a manner that stamped him as a valiant soldier. After the war he returned home and took charge of the farm, and in June, 1866, he married Sally Carter, daughter of N. J. and Carrie Carter, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of Tennessee. They were early settlers in Lafayette county, Missouri.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Young, namely: Thomas Carter is a lawyer at Farmington, Missouri. He was first graduated from the academy at Lexington, then from Lee's College, in Virginia. He is a very successful attorney and a man of much natural ability. Leila is living at home; Elizabeth married Oscar Bowman and lives in Kansas City; they have one child, Frederick Benjamin.
Mr. Young has an excellent farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres, and is carrying on general farming in a manner that stamps him as fully abreast of the times. A large part of his income is derived from his coal mine, which is a very valuable one, opened in 1892. He supplies all his neighbors with coal and sells to a large and increasing number of customers. It is an excellent grade and is a twenty-four-inch vein.
Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Presbyterian church, and politically he 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.
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