Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Young, Jacob Brown 1855 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JACOB BROWN YOUNG, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, was born December 17,
1855. His father died and left him, at the age of eight years, in the care of
his mother, who afterward married William V. Ferguson. In the year 1864, he came
with the family of James Crawford to Greene County, Ind., settling in Beech
Creek Township, which has ever since been his home, and where he is well known
and himself and family universally respected. Mr. Young received a good
education in the schools of this county, but not being satisfied with the
benefits derived from the common schools, he embarked in school teaching, and in
this way, and by other hard work, accumulated sufficient means to enter the
State University at Bloomington. He remained at this institution four years, and
besides being a hard student was one of the leading spirits of the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity. In August, 1878, he became associated with James Crawford in the
general merchandise business at Newark, which continued a few years, when A. J.
Shields purchased Mr. Crawford's interest. The firm now carries a well-assorted
stock of goods valued at about $4,500, and are doing the leading business of the
town. March 17, 1880, Miss Kate Kelsey, of Owen County, this State, became Mrs.
Jacob Brown Young, and the union has been blessed with one daughter—Grace
Edwards. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Young is
one of the county's self-made men, beginning life's battle a poor boy and by
upright dealings acquiring a competence. He is a Democrat, and member of the
subordinate lodge of Odd Fellowship, in which fraternity he has filled nearly
every office two times, once representing his lodge in the Grand Lodge of the State.

Additional Comments:
Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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