Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....E. B. Young August 24 1802 - May 22 1879
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    E. B. YOUNG, SR. - The name of this gentleman is inseparably connected with
the growth and prosperity of the beautiful city of Eufaula. For forty-three
years his hand was ever ready in advancing her interests financially and
socially, and his death was mourned by the entire community as a personal loss.
E. B. Young was the son of James and Christina (Ridabock) Young, and was born
and raised in New York city, as was his father before him. The date of his birth
was the 24th of August, 1802. At the age of seventeen, in company with a
brother, W. H. Young, now living in Columbus, Ga., he began a mercantile
business in Marion, Ga. This was continued until 1836, when the brothers
separated, E. B. locating in Irwinton, the present city of Eufaula. Entering the
mercantile business here, he soon became a leading dealer and continued in the
business until 1861. In 1859 he had organized the private banking house of
Young, Woods & Gardner, of which institution, under various firm names, he was
president until 1876. In that year a stock company was formed and the Eufaula
National bank organized, with Mr. Young as its president. This office he
continued to hold till his death, which occurred May 22, 1879. Mr. Young was a
public-spirited man and was foremost in every movement that looked toward the
advancement of Eufaula. When the Southwestern railroad was being agitated he
canvassed the county personally and secured over $300,000 in subscriptions and
stock. The establishment of the Union Female college was also a work that called
forth his most earnest efforts. In a communication to the Columbus Enquirer-Sun,
by a friend, touching his character, is the following: "The nobility of his
manhood was painted in form and feature. Of faultless physique, his very
appearance inspired admiration. Of well-balanced mind, his judgment was rarely
in error. He possessed remarkable equanimity of disposition, and to his sanguine
temperament and punctilious habits, as well as to the admirable control which he
had over his passions and impulses, may be attributed in great measure his long
life and uninterrupted good health."

   Mr. Young was married in Marion, Ga., on the 11th day of June, 1832, to Ann
Fendall Beall, and to the marriage were born nine children: J. W., deceased; H.
A., enlisted in Confederate States army and was a member of Kirby Smith's staff;
he was killed in a railroad accident in 1863; Anna, wife of S. H. Dent,
president of the Eufaula National bank; Mary, deceased wife of Dr. H. M. Weedon,
Eufaula; Ada, wife of J. H. G. Martin, broker, Eufaula; E. B., Jr.; Helen, wife
of George H. Dent, druggist, Eufaula; and Carrie, wife of N. W. Roberts,
secretary and treasurer of cotton mill, Eufaula, Ala. The mother of these
children died in 1876. "She was the model wife, the perfect mother, the unique
neighbor and the devoted unwavering Christian, and contributed much to the
success of her husband."

   E. B. Young, Jr., only living son of the above, was born in Eufaula on the
14th day of August, 1849. He was educated at the university of Georgia, but such
was his taste for business that he left that institution without graduating,
being a member of the junior class. Returning to Eufaula, he entered the banking
house of his father as a runner, and has since that time occupied every position
but that of president, being at present cashier and vice-president. Mr. Young
bears nobly the mantle of the father. He has been treasurer of the city for
fourteen years and is always ready to advance her interests. He and family are
members of the Methodist church, of which organization he is a steward. Mr.
Young was married in Eufaula on the 12th of October, 1871, to Mamie, daughter of
J. B. and Flora Jennings. Mrs. Young's family refugeed here from Missouri during
the war. The family afterward moved to New Orleans, La., where the father died,
thence back to Eufaula. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Young, six children have
been born, namely: Annie, Maybelle, E. B., Jr., W. H., Flora and Ada.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 477-478

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