Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Young, John H. 1848 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

JOHN H. YOUNG, Cotton Broker, native of Lauderdale County, was born March 22,
1848. His father, Wm. B. Young, came from Tennessee, and is now a farmer in this
county.

  John H. Young spent the first twenty-one years of his life upon his father's
farm, receiving in the meantime, a good common-school education. In the latter
part of 1868, as a member of the firm of Rice & Young, he embarked in mercantile
business at Florence. Mr. Rice retired from the firm in a short time, and was
succeeded by a brother of Mr. Young. At the end of about three years, they gave
up mercantile business, and Mr. Young engaged at once as a cotton merchant. He
is at present a member of the firm of Embry, Son & Young, manufacturers of
cotton yarns. Their mills are located seven miles north of Florence, upon the
waters of Cypress Creek, and have a capacity of about 2,500 spindles.

  Mr. Young was a member of the Board of Directors of the State Normal College
from 1884 up to June, 1887, at which time the school, having been by an act of
the Legislature delocalized, he retired.

  He was married at Florence, in 1870, to Miss Ella Holt, who died in 1881,
leaving five children, one of whom has since died. His second marriage occurred
in June, 1885, at Florence, Ala., with Miss De La Tre Bradley, daughter of the
late Dr. Jerry Bradley. To this union two children have been born.

  Mr. Young is purely a self-made man; without the advantages of pecuniary
inheritance, he has succeeded in the accumulation of wealth, and in establishing
a most enviable name and reputation as a citizen.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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