Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Youngs, Edwin J. 1850 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

EDWIN J. YOUNGS, Superintendent of the Castree-Mallory Manufacturing Company,
and also a stockholder and director of the same, was born in Fulton, Oswego
County, N. Y., September 3, 1850. He is the son of Henry and the grandson of
Hyatt Youngs, both New Yorkers, and the grandfather was of Welsh descent and a
soldier in the War of 1812. The father learned the miller's trade which he
carried on at Fulton, N. Y., for forty years, and was also foreman of mills for
some time at Genesee. He was for many years in the State Militia in New York. He
is inclined to Republican principles, but is independent in his vote, and in his
religious views is a Universalist.

  The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Phoebe Youmans and was born
in Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y. Her father, Abraham Youmans, was a farmer of
English descent. She died in Fulton, February 22, 1884, at the age of fifty-five
years. Of her thirteen children ten grew to maturity and nine are still living.
One son, Abraham, served during the late war and was for seven years in the
regular army.

  He of whom we write had good school advantages in Fulton, N. Y. until he
reached the age; of ten years, when he entered a planing mill, and at the age of
fifteen had mastered the business, so that he had charge of the establishment.
He then was apprenticed to a machinist, and he has developed a natural genius in
that line, and at the age of eighteen was an acomplished workman. He is now one
of the finest machinists in Michigan and can devise or make anything in iron,
and is constantly making improvements upon the machinery in his establishment.

  In 1868 the young man. started out as a journeyman, traveling through New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi and Louisiana,
and made his experience very valuable by way of gaining new ideas. He was at one
time Superintendent of the works of the Eams Vacuum Brake Company at Watertown,
N. Y., where he married in 1876 Miss Rozelle E. Auranger, a native of Oswego
County, N. Y. He was also Superintendent of the machine shop in Fulton. In 1880
he came to Linden, Genesee County, Mich., where he built carriage shops for J.
Broch & Sons, and superintended their works while there. In 1883 he came to
Flint and engaged in business for himself as a machinist and engine broker,
after which he was solicited to become a partner with Messrs. Castree & Mallory
and bought a one-third interest in their works, of which he is now
superintendent. In 1887 this business firm was incorporated as the
Castree-Mallory Company, and Mr. Youngs became a director and the
superintendent. They occupy over twenty thousand square feet of space, situated
on six floors, and the machinery is run by a hundred horse power steam engine.
The output of the factory included land rollers, bob sleds, cultivators,
harrows, plows, and general farming implements.

  This talented machinist has invented and patented various machines, including
the Starr Fence machine, the Starr bob sleigh, the Flexible Land Roller, the
Starr lever cultivator and various other machines and devices. He is constantly
improving the machinery of this company, and its extraordinary success is in a
large measure, due to his practical genius and untiring energy. This company
carries on the third largest manufactory of agricultural implements in Michigan,
and they take a just pride in their success. Mr. Youngs is a true-blue
Republican and a member of the orders of Masonry and the Knights of the
Maccabees. One child has cheered his home, to whom has been given the name of
Martin P.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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