BIO:  Samuel P. YOUNG, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 436

SAMUEL P. YOUNG, retired farmer, Littlestown, was born January 18, 1818, in 
Union Township, Adams Co., Penn., a grandson of Peter Young, a native of 
Pennsylvania, who settled in Union Township (in the Shorb neighborhood).  Peter 
Young married a Miss Burkhardt, by whom he had four children:  Rachel, John, and 
two others.  The grandparents died on the old homestead, and there their son, 
John Young, also died, aged eighty-four.  John Young, who was also a farmer, 
married a Miss Oyster, who died leaving one child, John Young (also deceased).  
John Young was married on the second occasion to Mrs. Catharine McSherry, a 
daughter of Mr. Little, the founder of Littlestown, this county.  She died on 
the old homestead aged eighty-four years.  To this union were born two children:  
Mrs. Sally Felty (deceased) and Samuel P.  Our subject was educated in this 
township, and for a time engaged in farming, but for the last two years has 
lived in Littlestown.  He has been twice married, first to Margaret, daughter of 
Judge George Will, and who died the mother of nine children:  William A., Eliza 
J., Mary C., Margaret, John A., Clara A. (deceased), Sally, Charles S. and 
Laura.  Our subject was married on the second occasion to Miss Cecilia C. Will, 
another daughter of Judge Will.  Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Reformed 
Church.  Politically he is identified with the Republican party.