Silas Young

As printed in 1902

SILAS YOUNG.

The farming interests of Knox county are well represented by Silas Young, who owns a valuable and well cultivated place in Monroe township. He was born in Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio, October 19, 1 82 1. His father, Reese C. Young, claimed Pennsylvania as the state of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Washington county in 1799. He subsequently removed to Geauga county, Ohio, where he was married, and in 1838 he took up his above in Knox county, locating on a farm in Monroe township, where he spent the remainder of his days. His political support was given the Democracy, and religiously he was a member of the Methodist Protestant church. For his wife he those Eliza Gates, who was born in the Empire state, and was a member of an old and prominent family, whose history is traced back through many generations to a passenger on the Mayflower. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Young was blessed with fifteen children, nine of whom are now living, namely: Silas, the subject of this review; Elvira, the wife of Martin Robinson, of California; Mary A., the widow of William Downs and a resident of Mount Vernon; Carrie, wife of Stephen Craig, of Knox county; Emma, wife of Robert Coleman, of Mount Vernon; Eva, the widow of Thomas Williams, and she makes her home with her sister, Mrs. Craig; Jane, wife of Elias Leonard, of Missouri; Abigail, widow of Samuel Bartlett and a resident of 'Iount Vernon; and Susan, the wife of John M. Scott, of Knox county.

Silas Young remained under the parental roof until his fifteenth year, when he began the battle of life on his own account, and for the following twelve years he was engaged at various occupations, but his time was principally given to agricultural pursuits. In the fall of 1839 he came to Knox county, Ohio, where he soon entered the employ of Mr. Jacob Davis, and on the 20th of August, 1848, he was united in marriage to his daughter Catherine. Shortly after his marriage our subject rented the farm where his brother-in-law, James W. Davis, now resides, where he made his home for two years, on the expiration of which period he purchased a tract of sixty-six acres on the Wooster road, there making his home until 1870. For the following two years he rented a farm of two hundred and thirty-three acres of the Lefever heirs in Clinton township, and at the end of that period the residence there was burned and Mr. Young then moved to Mount Verncm. After another year had passed by he purchased his present tarmi of one hundred and twenty-three acres in Monroe township, and on this place he has ever since made his home. He has a. fine farm, a mile east of Mount Vernon, and thereon he is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits.

The union of our subject and wife has been blessed with ten children, six of whom survive, — Jacob R., who is engaged in business in Springfield, Illinois; Augusta, the wife of C. A. Lefever, of Clinton township; John Shannon, a resident of Tallula, Illinois; Mary, the wife of Walter S. Steele, who is engaged in the grocery business in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Charles, at home; and Catherine, the wife of Walter Spittle, of Vashington, Indiana. Mr. Young gives his political support to the Democratic party, and his religious views connect him with the Methodist Protestant church.

As printed in The Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio : to which is added an elaborate compendium of national biography (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.