James Henry Young

As printed in 1909

JAMES HENRY YOUNG.

James Henry Young, ex-president of The Washington County Savings Bank, was born May 9, 1841, in Fleming county, Kentucky. His father, James Harvey Young, and his mother, Margaret Morrison (Henry) Young, were also natives of the state of Kentucky. They came with their family of six children to Washington county, Iowa, in 1849 'there the father died in 1851, the mother surviving until 1884. James Harvey Young was a man of considerable ability with such common school education as the times afforded, and with moderate means in a financial way. He brought with him from Kentucky a number of land warrants, which he laid with good judgment on land in Washington county, among others the north half of section 22, Franklin township, one hundred and sixty acres of which remained in the family and was owned and improved by the subject of this sketch until the year 1878. James Harvey Young was an elder in the Associate Reformed (now United Presbyterian) church, both the father and mother and all the children who lived to maturity being members of the same church.

James Henry Young was eight years of age when he came to this county, and here he continued to reside for fifty-three years until 1902, when with his wife he removed to Pasadena, California, which is their present home. He was educated in the public schools in Washington, supplemented by a partial course in Washington College, where he attained the junior year. His early life was spent on a farm adjoining Washington on the northwest, a part of which he laid off in lots and sold and is now known as M. M. Young's first and second additions and J. H. Young's addition to the city of Washington.

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil war, when he left college and enlisted as a private in Company C, Nineteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war, being mustered out of the service July 10, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama. He was finally paid off and discharged August 1, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa, and returned to his home on the farm in Washington county.

On the 2 1 St of November, 1867, Mr. Young was united in marriage with Lizzie N. Laughead, a native of Indiana and only daughter of the Rev. I. N. Laughead. He remained on the farm for a few years and then engaged in the coal, wood and grain business, in which he continued until the year 1876, when he organized the Washington County Savings Bank, in which he acted as cashier and president until his removal in 1902 to California.

As printed in History of Washington County, Iowa from the first white settlements to 1908. Also biographical sketches of some prominent citizens of the county (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.