Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Young, Aaron 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Aaron Young, a farmer of Mt. Pleasant Township, resident on section 12, was 
born Aug. 1, 1830, in Benton, Columbia Co., Pa., and is the son of Abraham and 
Ann (Peterman) Young. The former was a native of New Jersey, and the latter 
was born in Pennsylvnia, where their marriage took place and where they 
located and reared their family. The father died in the Keystone State, and 
the mother has never left the place, where all her life has been spent. Their 
seven children were named Thomas W., John K., Amanda, Mercy A,, Aaron, Sarah 
and Abraham P. All attained to adult age. When he was of age Mr. Young came 
West. He left his native State in the spring of 1852, and located at Dixon, 
Lee Co., Ill., where he remained until his removal from there to Whiteside 
County, an event which occurred in the spring of 1859. He then engaged in 
farming, and about 1863 he purchased 120 acres of land on section 12, where he 
established his homestead, and has since maintained his residence there. He 
has added 53 acres by subsequent purchase, constituting an estate of 173 
acres, on which he has erected fine farm buildings. Mr. Young was educated 
primarily in the common schools of his native county, and also passed nearly 
two years in study at Rock River Seminary, after coming to Lee County. He 
taught several terms of school while living at Dixon, and he also worked as a 
carpenter during his residence there. He was united in marriage, in Sterling, 
Ill., April 1, 1858, to Rhoda E. Gardner, and their family of six children are 
named Lester C., Helen A., Mary E., Dora A., Clara M. and Marcia L. Mrs. Young 
was born April 4, 1834, in Luzerne Co., Pa., and is the daughter of Asahel and 
Rebecca (Colvin) Gardner, the former a native of Rhode Island, the latter of 
Pennsylvania. They had four children,—Almira, Adaline, Esther and Rhoda. Mrs. 
Young attended the district schools of her native county until she was 15 
years of age, and after that she was a student about two years at Madison 
Academy in Luzerne County. After completing her education she engaged in 
teaching, with successful results, and was occupied in that vocation until her 
marriage. She came to Whiteside County in 1857. Mr. Young affiliates with the 
Democratic party, and has acted in several official positions in his township. 
His portrait and that of his estimable wife appear on previous pages. The 
photographs from which they were copied were taken in 1885.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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