San Benito-Santa Clara-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Young, David 1824 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

DAVID YOUNG, a California pioneer of 1849, is a native of Halifax county,
Virginia, born in 1824. He was the son of Jesse Young, a farmer by occupation.
At the time of the Revolution, the last named gentleman was fifteen years
old-and a son of a Revolutionary soldier, a native of Scotland. Jesse was reared
to the trade of a blacksmith, and during the war put in much of his time, though
but a lad, in shoeing horses for the soldiers. After the close of the conflict
he closed his shop and engaged in farming, marrying the mother of our subject.
In 1835 he removed with his family to Barren county, Kentucky, where he died at
an advanced age.

  David grew up in Barren county on the farm, until 1841, when he located in
Piatt county, Missouri, where he lived until he came to California. During 1849,
1850 and 1851 he mined in Placer county, with average success, but in 1852 he
engaged in farming, near San Jose, where he remained until 1868, and then
located on his present place of 172 acres in Fair View, San Benito county, being
one of the original purchasers of the Hollister grant.

  Mr. Young married, in 1853, Miss Sarah Johnson, at San Jose, and they have
three children. They are estimable people and it is to the energy of such
pioneers that Fair View owes its prosperity.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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