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Source: Vol. II  pg.134  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        SAM T. YOUNG was a Kentucky banker before he located at Miami. In this
city he has been in the real estate business, and his distinctive achievement
in that field is the development of the Northern Suburb of Miami, Buena Vista.
	Mr. Young was born in Barren County, Kentucky. His first work of a
public nature was that of a clerkship for twelve months with the banking firm
of H. Y. Davis & Company, of Cane City, Kentucky. From there he went to
college, and after getting his education, entered the banking business at
Glasgow, Kentucky. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of
Glasgow, served it as director and assistant cashier; organized and became a
director of the Glasgow Trust Company; and also organized the Third National
Bank and was its president. He was also president of the Glasgow Water Company
and president of the Glasgow Telephone Company.
	On coming to Miami in 1911, Mr. Young engaged in the real estate 
business. His offices are in his own building at 740 Northeast First Avenue. 
While he has covered a wide scope in real estate and development, he was a 
pioneer in opening up the district known as Buena Vista, which in its present 
form stands as a conspicuous monument to his enterprise and foresight. Soon 
after he came to Miami he started to clear the land on the site, and kept 
consistently at this promotion until Buena Vista, which at first was a suburban 
community to the north of Miami, has developed not only as an important 
homebuilding proposition, but as a growing and prosperous business section in 
itself. Business lots in Buena Vista have steadily advanced from $20 per front 
foot to $700 per front foot. The completion of the great Moore Furniture Store 
early in 1922 crowned a series of commercial enterprises that established Buena 
Vista permanently as the leading section of Miami’s territory outside of the 
downtown section proper. Mr. Young developed a number of individual properties, 
put up several buildings himself, and carried the location of business 
enterprises and he still owns some of the most valuable property in that 
section. He was president of the Buena Vista Commercial Club. “Ask Sam” is his
favorite advertising phrase, and by it he is well known in the realty business.
	Mr. Young is secretary and treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of 
Baker’s Haulover District. This was organized under a special act of the
Legislature for the purpose of making an intake from Biscayne Bay to the
Atlantic Ocean in the northwestern section of Dade County. The cost of this
improvement is approximately $250,000.
	Mr. Young is identified with the First Baptist Church of Miami, and 
takes a great interest in the Sunday school and Baptist Young People’s Union 
work. He was the first president of the City B. Y. P. U. and is at present 
president of the Stenssey B. Y. P. U.
	Mr. Young had the misfortune to lose his wife in the early part of
1919. He has one son, HORACE C. YOUNG, now a student of law in George W
Washington University at Washington, District of Columbia.


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