Biographical Sketch of John D. Young, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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John D. Young, prosecuting attorney of Texas County, was born near
Houston, Texas County, MO., January 7, 1854, his parents being William
M. and Sarah J. (Fourt) Young, both natives of Missouri, he of Boone
County and she of either Pulaski or Crawford County.  The father died
January 4, 1884, at the age of fifty-three years, but the mother is
still living, and is residing on the old homestead.  He was a farmer
by occupation, and also was engaged in the milling business.  During
the late war he served six months in the State Militia, but previous
to this, in 1848, he went to California, and worked in the mines until
1851, when he returned to Texas County, MO.  There were born to his
marriage nine children, six now living: John D., Margaret C., wife of
Jonathan Jones, a farmer of Texas County; Lynch J., Sarah, wife of 
John Hambleton, farmer of Texas County; Cordelia, Cora A., also mar-
ried, and Charles R., now attending school at Mountain Grove.  John D.
Young received his education in the home schools and at Salem Academy,
where he taught school four years.  In 1879 he was elected collector
of Texas County, and served two years.  In the fall of 1881 he attend-
ed law school at Columbia, and graduated from the same in April, 1884.
One year later he commenced the practice of law, and in November, 1888,
he was elected prosecuting attorney of Texas County.  July 28, 1887,
he married Miss Cordelia A. Lynch, who was born in 1867, and who is 
the daughter of John T. Lynch.  She is a member of the Christian Church
and he is a Republican in politics.

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