Lake-Porter County IN Archives Biographies.....Young, George W. 1852 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

GEORGE W. YOUNG.

    George W. Young, a prominent farmer on section 32, Ross township, has lived
in Lake county most of his life. He is almost a native son of the county since
he was born very close to the line between this and Porter county. Outside of
eleven years spent in business in Chicago, he has devoted most of his active
years to farming, with such success that he is numbered among the representative
men of that class in this section of Lake county. He is a man of ability in
whatever enterprise he undertakes, and has more than once been influential in
community affairs, having a public-spirited desire to further the material and
social welfare of the county which has so long been his home.

He was born just across the line in Porter county, Indiana, February 25, 1852, a
son of D. L. and Lovina (Guernsey) Young, the former a native of Pennsylvania
and the latter of Canada, whence she came to Lake county in young womanhood. His
father came to Lake county about 1850, and died here in his sixty-second year.
He followed the occupations of farming, carrying the mail and keeping hotel in
Hobart. He was a well known old citizen, both of Lake and Porter counties,
owning land in both counties. He carried the mail between Lake station and Crown
Point. He was a life-long Republican. His ancestors were German. His first wife
died at the age of thirty, having been the mother of two daughters and four
sons, of whom four died young. George W., the only living son, has a sister,
Emma L., wife of Henry Cunningham. Mr. D. L. Young, by his second marriage, had
three children, and the two living are D. L. and Malida, the latter the wife of
Charles Miller.

    Mr. Young was reared and educated in Lake and Porter counties, and for
several years after taking up active work remained at home assisting his father
on the farm. In 1876, after his marriage, he went to Chicago, where for eleven
years he was engaged in the ice business, being located on Twelfth street near
Union. He sold out in 1887 and returned to Lake county, where he has since
followed farming. He has a well-improved farm of two hundred and fifty acres,
and he raises general products, stock, and does dairying, making it all a very
profitable enterprise.

    Mr. Young has been a life-long Republican and cast his vote for Hayes, and
at one time held the office of supervisor of the township. He is a member, at
Hobart, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, NO. 333, and the Independent
Order of Foresters, No. 141, at Hobart.

    He married, in 1876, Miss Susan S. Cunningham, who died October 3, 1890,
having been the mother of six children: Carrie L.; George ck.; Delbert E.; Harry
L.; Louie L.; and Joseph W., deceased. The three eldest were born in Chicago,
and the others in Lake county. Mr. Young was married in Lake county, Indiana, in
1892, to Mrs. O. M. Young, and one son was born, Isaac Lane, aged eleven, in the
fourth grade. Mrs. Young is a native of Ohio, born in 1855 and was reared in
Ohio, and Indiana and educated in the latter state.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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