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From Biographical review of Henry County, Iowa, containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past .. (1906)
NESTOR A. J. YOUNG.
Nestor A. J. Young, who has lived in Henry county for sixty years, a veteran of the Civil war, is now living retired in Mount Pleasant, having passed the seventy-seventh milestone on life's journey. He is therefore enjoying the rest which should ever come with advanced years, when life's duties at an earlier date have been ably and faithfully performed. He was born in Pennsylvania, October 22, 1828, his parents being Nestor and Abigail (Emerson) Young, both of whom were natives of Nerw Hampshire, where they were reared. The father was a house carpenter by trade and also became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1846, when his son, N. A. J. Young, was seventeen years of age the father came west to Iowa, settling in Heniy county on a farm three and a half miles northeast of Mount Pleasant. The land was then raw and unimproved, but he at once began its development and cultivation and made a good home for his fami there. He engaged in preaching as a local minister of the Methodist church, devoting the week days to the labors of his farm, while on Sunday he took his place in the pulpit, thus continuing in active life until February, 1863, when he was called to his final rest. He was a gallant soldier of the war of 1812 and was always loyal in citizenship. In his political views he was a democrat until a short time prior to his death, when he became a republican. Fraternally he was an Odd Fellow and both he and his wife were life-long members of the Methodist church. The death of Mrs. Young occurred in 1863. After their sons went to the war the parents returned to Cincinnati, where they had a daughter living, and both are buried in Spring Grove cemetery of that city. In their family were fourteen children, tweh'e of whom reached adult age, ten of the number being girls. The eldest child died unnamed in infancy. The others were: Charles F. C, a sailor; Elmira and Jane, twins, both deceased; Jonathan E. C, Mary Ann, Susan
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