Huerfano County CO Archives Biographies.....Young, Robert 1862 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

ROBERT YOUNG.
     Robert Young, who is filling the office of county commissioner of Huerfano
county and is also successfully conducting a garage and automobile agency in
Walsenburg, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 12th of February, 1862, a
son of William and Margaret (Kerns) Young. The father was a mine manager, long
connected with mining interests in his native country, hut both he and his wife
have now passed away. Their family numbered five sons and eight daughters, of
whom Robert Young was the ninth in order of birth.

     In the public schools of his native country Robert Young pursued his
education, but his opportunities in that direction were quite limited as he
began work in the mines before reaching the age of ten years, or in September,
1871. He continued to work in the mines of Scotland until coming to the new
world in 1879. Attracted by the broader business opportunities which he believed
he might secure on this side of the Atlantic, he crossed the ocean and took up
his abode in Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years, and during that
period was also engaged in mining. He next located in Iowa and subsequently in
Illinois, while from that state he removed to Ohio.

    Mr. Young afterward returned to Scotland and in the land of hills and
heather was married on the 30th of December, 1885, to Miss Jennie Scott. With
his bride he immediately returned to the United States and made his way to
McDonald, Pennsylvania, where he resided for three months. He then went to
Carroll county, Ohio, where he remained from 1886 until 1897, when he removed to
Colorado, making his way to Maitland, Huerfano county. There he assisted in
opening a mine, of which he became superintendent, and continued in active
connection with the operation of the mine in an official capacity until 1912. He
has been engaged in the automobile business since 1916, when he opened his
garage in Walsenburg, and his sons are now associated with him in the business.
They are agents for the Dodge Brothers car in Huerfano county. They maintain a
complete service station and are meeting with success in their undertaking. They
purchased the garage which they occupy and through the intervening period their
business has steadily increased.

     To Mr. and Mrs. Young were born the following named: Annie S., who passed
away at the age of sixteen years; Margaret K.; William, who is in business with
his father; Thomas S., who is with the Signal Corps in France, having responded
to the country's call to make the world safe for democracy; Jennie S., who
passed away at the age of ten years; Mary B.; Isabel S., who is attending school
in Boulder; Robert, Jr., who is also with his father in business; David S.;
Elizabeth; Gertrude; and Eleanor. Eight of the children were born in Leesville,
Carroll county, Ohio, and four were born in Huerfano county. There are also four
grandchildren.

     In politics Mr. Young maintains an independent course and regards the
capability of the candidate rather than his party affiliation. He was elected on
the progressive ticket in 1914 to the office of county commissioner, which
position he is still filling. He is much interested in political questions and
conditions and gives his aid and influence on the side of advancement and
improvement, looking to the welfare of the majority rather than to the
aggrandizement of self. Mr. Young is a Presbyterian in religious faith and
fraternally is a third degree Mason. He also belongs to the Commercial Club and
he is deeply interested in everything that has to do with the material,
intellectual, social and moral progress of his community. He is now a member of
the coal conservation committee and is active in the cause of defense work,
heartily cooperating in every plan of the country to advance the interests of
the nation and the cause of the allies in their struggle to prevent the world
from being subjected to the tyrannical rule of militarism.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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