Tipton-Jennings-Jefferson County IN Archives Biographies.....Young, William B. 1829 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WILLIAM B. YOUNG, proprietor of the Champion Planing Mill, and one of the
early settlers of Tipton County, was born in Brown County, Ohio, June 4, 1829.
When Mr. Young was two years old, his father died. He continued to reside in
Brown County until his seventeenth year, when the family, consisting of his
mother, his sister and himself, removed to Jennings County, Ind. There, he
followed farming for two years, and at the end of that time he went to Kent,
Jefferson Co., Ind., and commenced to learn the cabinet trade, during which
time, 1849, his mother died. After he had mastered his trade, about 1850 he
removed to Tipton County, and started in the cabinet business for himself, and
in connection therewith conducted a furniture store. In 1874, he erected the
Champion Planing Mill, which he managed in connection with his other business
until 1881, when he sold out his cabinet and furniture business. Since that
time, he has devoted himself entirely to the management of the planing mill.
Since its erection in 1874, the mill was once entirely destroyed by fire. But,
notwithstanding the crushing loss he sustained, Mr. Young at once rebuilt it, on
an improved plan, with improved machinery, and the business of the mill has so
increased that the annual amount of lumber turned out approximates 125,000 feet.
Mr. Young has been twice married, first, on the 8th of June, 1848, to Miss
Catharine Green, who died January, 1853; secondly, on the 4th of August, 1853,
in Jennings County, Ind., to Miss Mary A. Green. By his first wife, he has two
children-Seneca G. Young and Mrs. Mary I. Long. By his second wife, he has three
children, viz., Ella, Lulu A. and Anna E. He has a nice brick residence on West
Jefferson street. Politically, he is a Republican, is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and also of the Christian Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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