Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Young, Robert Ogle 1814 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 June 3, 2011, 5:37 pm Source: See below Author: Interstate Publishing Co. ROBERT OGLE YOUNG, M. D., is the oldest physician now living in Clinton County, Indiana, and was born on his father's farm near Somerville, in Butler County, Ohio, May 12, 1814. He is the fifth son and the sixth of ten children of Robert and Jane (Ogle) Young, natives of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His grandparents on his father's side were Andrew and Sarah (Parks) Young; on his mother's side, Ogle and Fulton, who was a near relative of Robert Fulton, who is said to be the inventor of steam. All his grandparents were native-born Americans, two of Irish, one of Scotch, and one English descent. His father was a tailor by trade. He emigrated to Ohio in 1801 and entered and settled on the farm on which the Doctor was born. He built a Buckeye cabin himself and kept bach, having the Indians for his neighbors, and by his own labor made a beginning. In 1803 the Ogle family emigrated also to Ohio and settled within four miles of him. He and Miss Jane Ogle were married the next year and originated the family of which the Doctor is a member. He continued on the farm with his parents until he was twenty-seven years old. Having received a fail from a wagon which disabled one of his arms so much that it led him to choose some other calling, he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Mendenhall, of Somerville, Ohio, and took his first course of lectures in the winter of 1843-'4, in the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. The next spring he removed to Clinton County and commenced the practice of medicine in Warren Township. In October of the same year, he returned to Cincinnati and took a second course of lectures and graduated in March, 1845. He then returned to his former location and continued in the practice for twenty-five years. His health failing he took his nephew, M. V. Young, M. D., with him, gave him his location and retired from practice. His success as a physician was most gratifying to himself, endearing the community in which he lived to him, and financially it resulted so favorably that with economy he and his family need never suffer want He was married March 21, 1848, to Miss Margaret N. Robison, daughter of Andrew Robison. They had five children, two sons and three daughters—Robert, Louisa, Mary, Hulda and Milton. Robert married Miss Sarah E. Taylor; Louisa, A. H. Coapestick, and Mary, Elias Campbell. Hulda and Milton died in infancy. Robert and Mr. Coapestick are farmers and E. Campbell is engaged in mercantile business. They are all settled near their father. Margaret N., the mother of the above children, died March 17, 1863. The Doctor was married a second time November 1,1864, to Miss Susanna Compton, daughter of Arthur Compton, with whom he is now living on one of his farms which he still superintends and makes grain and stock-raising a success. His farm land is well underdrained with tile. He has managed bees so successfully for thirty-eight years that he has never been without them or their product. Fruit growing has been a specialty for home use. His sugar maple has been preserved and worked so that his family always has a supply of the syrup. In general he has labored to make the gifts of the Almighty a blessing to himself and to those with whom he lives. For benevolent purposes he has been a free giver, not only to the church but to the poor also. He united with the Presbyterian church at Somerville, Butler County, Ohio, at the age of twenty-three years, and when he removed to Clinton County he connected by letter with the Lexington Presbyterian church, of Carroll County, Indiana. Some twenty years ago he was elected ruling elder in that church in which capacity he serves at present. In early life, at the age of twenty-one, he connected himself with the temperance cause uniting himself to the Washingtonian Society, as it was then called, and has since rigidly adhered to his pledge. In politics he was a Democrat in early life, but when the Republican party was organized he identified himself with and still works with it. His early privileges for an education were quite limited. His first schooling was in a log cabin with oiled paper for glass and slab benches to sit on with clapboard door and mud chimney, the fire place six feet wide. The people of Ohio at that time were in poor circumstances financially, and his father had a large family to provide for and could not more than spare the labor of his children while the district school lasted. The Doctor, when he moved to Indiana, found the people in like circumstances as he early experienced in Ohio. Log cabins, mud roads, privations of many of the comforts of life, many shaking with ague chills, but a kind people, with whom he cast in his lot, and has lived to see them now wealthy and prosperous, with good houses, good health, good schools, and all that is needful to make them prosperous and happy. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, INDIANA, TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ITS CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS, EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO. 1886. 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