YOUNG, Francis D., Vermilion then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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FRANCIS D. YOUNG, M. D., RAYNE.-- Dr. Francis D. Young was born in Vermilion
parish, Louisiana, March 1, 1835.  He is the son of Notley and Frazelie (De
Villiere) Young.  His father was a native of Washington, D. C.  He was engaged
in farming in Maryland until 1811, when he removed to Louisiana, and located
in St. Landry, then Vermilion parish, where he became an extensive sugar
planter.  In 1851 he removed to Springfield, Kentucky, where he died about the
close of the war.  The mother of our subject was a native of Louisiana of
French extraction, her ancestors having been of the French nobility, who fled
from their native country.  She died when Francis D. was a child.

The subject of this sketch is the fifth of a family of seven children.  He
received his literary education at St. Joseph College, Perry County, Ohio. 
Soon after leaving college he commenced the study of medicine with Dr.
Montgomery, of Springfield, Kentucky.  In 1854-55 he was a student at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.  In 1855-56 he attended the
medical department of the University of Louisiana, from which he graduated in
the latter year.  He practised [sic] his profession in Lafayette for one year,
when he removed to Abbeville, Vermilion parish, and practised until 1887, at
which time he came to this place.  Dr. Young is a representative man of his
profession, and his ability as a physician is attested in the large practice
which he has at this place.  The Doctor was married in 1858 to Miss Jemima
Campbell native of Vermilion parish, Louisiana.  Mrs. Young died December 25,
1860, having become the mother of a son--Notley C.--who is engaged in the drug
business at Abbeville.  October, 1862, Dr. Young married Miss Mary M. Guegon,
of Vermilion parish.  To this union have been born ten children, six sons and
four daughters.  Mrs. Young died in 1886.  The Doctor and family are
Catholics.  Dr. Young has an exceptional family, three sons physicians, and a
son-in-law,  Drs. F. F. Young,  B. I. Young,  W. G. Young and  C. I. Edwards,
all of whom have made bright marks in their profession.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 275. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.

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