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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

O. M. YOUNG.
    O. M. Young, president of O. M. Young & Company, engaged in the abstract
insurance and real estate loan business in Stuttgart, and also a member of the
law firm of Young & Elms, is actuated in all that he does by a spirit of
laudable ambition that has enabled him to forge steadily to the front in both
business and professional connections. A native of Missouri, he was born in
Shelby county. May 5, 1890, and is a son of Robert P. and Fannie (Highland)
Young. The father, a native of Shelby county, Missouri, is a son of S. and Joan
(Forsythe) Young, the former a native of Kentucky, whence he removed to
Missouri. S. Young was called to fill the office of county judge in Shelby
county and made an excellent record on the bench. He afterward removed to
Arkansas in company with his family, save his son, Robert P. Young. He settled
at Stuttgart, taking up his abode here many years ago, so that through an
extended period the Young family has been represented in this part of the state,
becoming actively identified with its development and progress. Judge Young was
a Civil war veteran, aiding in the defense of the Confederacy, while in times of
peace his labors were a potent force in connection with the public life and
material welfare of the community. The mother of O. M. Young was a daughter of
John and Jane (Crawford) Highland, and her father, a native of Scotland, settled
near Bowling Green, Kentucky, following his emigration to the new world. Robert
P. and Fannie (Highland) Young, parents of 0. M. Young, resided for many years
in Shelby county, Missouri, there continuing to make their home until 1898, when
they removed to Stuttgart, Arkansas. They had a family of two sons, the younger
being James E., who is engaged in the hardware business in Stuttgart, where he
succeeded his father, who had been the founder of the store and had successfully
carried on the business for a number of years.

    O. M. Young was a lad of but eight years when the family home was
established in Stuttgart, so that he pursued much of his early education in the
public schools of this city, passing through consecutive grades to the high
school. After he attended the Arkansas Military Academy and subsequently became
a law student in the University of Arkansas. Having qualified for law practice,
he opened an office in Little Rock but afterward removed to Stuttgart, where he
has continued as an active and resourceful member of the Arkansas county bar. In
1912 he organized an abstract company but later disposed of his interest in that
business and formed a new company, which was incorporated under the name of O.
M. Young & Company, of which Mr. Young is the president, with M. K. Boutwell as
vice president and J. W. Boutwell as secretary. This company is now conducting a
large and growing abstract and real estate loan business and Mr. Young is
largely directing the affairs of the company, making it one of the profitable
business concerns of the city. He also continues in the practice of law and has
been connected with much important litigation.

    In 1911 Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss Zula Patrick of Little
Rock, a daughter of Z. W. and Lena (Slemmons) Patrick. Mr. Young and his wife
are members of the Christian church and their interest always centers in those
channels through which flow the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest
number. He is identified with several fraternal organizations, being a Knights
Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Mystic Shriner, a member of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Modern
Woodmen of America. During the World war he was chairman of the Red Cross for
Arkansas county and a director of the Liberty Loan drives. He stands at all
times for those interests which feature most largely in connection with public
progress and welfare and while at all times upholding the legal and moral status
of the community, he is, through his abstract and real estate loan business,
also promoting the material progress of this section of the state.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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