Walker C. Young, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Walker C. Young is one of the popular citizens and valued public officials in the picturesque
old capital city of Baton Rouge, where he is clerk of the court and also ex officio recorder of
the parish of East Baton Rouge.

On a plantation near Port Hudson, in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.  Walker C. Young was
born January 5, 1871.  In this parish also was born his father, the late Robert T. Young, who
became one of the extensive planters and successful merchants in the Port Hudson district of the
parish, and who remained on his fine plantation estate until the time of his death.  He was one
of the honored and influential citizens of his native parish, was a stalwart advocate of the
principles of the democratic party and was a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention
of 1879.  His first wife was Eliza Newport, who died in East Baton Rouge Parish, having two
daughters, one, Mary, who married Dr. T. L. Mills, and the other, Susan, who married Mr. G. C.
Mills, the two sisters having married brothers.  The husbands and wives are both deceased.  His
second wife, whose maiden name was Eunice Lilly, passed her entire life in East Baton Rouge
Parish.  Of the children the elder was Sallie, who died at Denver, Colorado, at the age of forty
years, she having been the wife of Albert S. Pettit, who is at a hardware merchant in East Baton
Rouge Parish; Walker C., of this review, is the younger of the two children.

In well ordered private schools in his native parish Walker C. Young acquired his earlier
education, and was Supplemented by his attending Southwestern University at Clarksville,
Tennessee and Denver University, in the City of Denver. Colorado.  He was nineteen years of age
when he completed his university studies, and thereafter he remained on the old home plantation,
in the general supervision of which he continued to be associated, and also was identified with
a local mercantile business, until he was elected clerk of the court and ex-officio recorder of
East Baton Rouge Parish, his election having occurred in 1916 and he having assumed office in
June of that year.  The high popular estimate placed upon him arid his administration in this
dual office was significantly shown in 1920, when he was reelected, without opposition, and also
in the election of 1924, when he was again without opposing candidate and received the full vote
of his native parish.  He has his official headquarters in the courthouse at Baton Rouge, and in
this city has au attractive home at 201 Drehr Avenue, though his legal residence is still
maintained on the old home plantation of 800 acres near Port Hudson, a property which he owns
and in the maintenance of which he takes much pride and interest.  He is influential in the
local councils and general activities of the democratic party, and he and his wife are active
members of the Presbyterian Church.  In the time honored Masonic fraternity, with which his
father likewise was identified, his affiliations are with Zachary Lodge, A. F. and A. M.;
Zachary Chapter, R. A. M., both of which are established in the Village of Zachary; Plains
Commandery No. 11, Knights Templars, at Baton Rouge; and Jerusalem Temple of the Mystic Shrine,
in the City of New Orleans.  He is affiliated also with Capital Lodge No. 29, Knights of
Pythias, and Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490. B. P. 0. E.  Mr. Young takes loyal interest in all that
concerns the civic and material welfare of his native parish and home city, and is actively
identified with the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce.  In the World war period he served as a
member of the draft board of East Baton Rouge Parish and was active in the advancing of all
local patriotic movements.

In June, 1893, at Baton Rouge, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Olive M. Young,
of distant family kinship, she likewise having been born and reared in East Baton Rouge Parish,
a daughter of Joseph T. and Lydia (Ronaldson) Young, the latter of whom is deceased and the
former of whom is living retired in the Village of Zachary.  Joseph T. Young has served as clerk
of the court of East Baton Rouge Parish, and two terms as sheriff of this parish.  Mrs. Walker
C. Young received good educational advantages, including those of Fay's Institute at Baton
Rouge, and she is a popular figure in the representative social circles of her native parish.
Mr. and Mrs. Young have no children.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 63, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American
Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.