BIO: Robert G. YOUNG, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 289-290.
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  ROBERT G. YOUNG, a well known lumber merchant of Beaver county, is located at
  New Galilee and deals in all kinds of building materials, sashes, doors,
  blinds, mantels, inside finishings, shingles, agricultural implements, barbed
  and galvanized wire fencing, and also does considerable business as a
  slate-roofer. He is one of the substantial business men of that section and
  is everywhere respected as a citizen of worth and influence. He is a son of
  Robert and Jane (McAnlis) Young, and was born April 4, 1845, in Big Beaver
  township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
  
  Peter Young, his grandfather, was born in Ireland, where he was educated and
  spent the early part of his life. He came to America, located east of
  Pittsburg, Pa., and entered the employ of Captain Crawford, a hero of the
  Revolutionary War. He subsequently went to Saw Mill Run, and in the year 1800
  removed to Beaver county, where he purchased from Mr. Wylie, the original
  patentee, a farm of 100 acres of wild land. He built log sheds and a log
  house, and at that time there were but three white families in the district.
  Indians were very numerous, and many interesting stories are related in
  connection with adventures and encounters with them. Mr. Young remained on
  the farm the remainder of his life and successfully confronted the many
  difficulties and hardships to which the early pioneers were subjected. He
  reared the following children: John, a farmer; William; Algeo; Nancy
  (Wright); Elizabeth; Rebecca; James, a practicing physician of Westmoreland
  county; and Robert, father of the subject hereof.
  
  Robert Young was born in Beaver county, Pa., in 1803, and was reared on the
  old homestead farm, receiving such an education as circumstances would
  permit. He learned farming and assisted his father until the latter's death,
  when he succeeded to the home property. This he greatly improved by erecting
  new buildings, clearing the land and raising an orchard. He was an
  Abolitionist, and then a Republican, in politics. He was a consistent member
  of the Presbyterian church, and for twenty years served as elder. He died in
  1862, at the age of fifty-nine years. His union with Jane McAnlis resulted in
  the following issue: James M., who died at the age of fifteen years; Margaret;
  Susan (Patterson); W. J., a farmer; Robert G., the subject of this
  biographical record; Hamilton A., a farmer; and Lizzie.
  
  Robert G. Young obtained his elementary education in the schools of Beaver
  county and received an excellent business training in the Iron City Business
  College, of Pittsburg, in 1867. He learned the trade of a carpenter after
  spending some time as a bookkeeper in New Castle, Pa. He plied his trade in
  the states of Iowa and Missouri, until 1870, when he returned to Beaver
  county and became a
  
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  contractor. In 1882, he started in business as a lumber dealer, being the
  first in the locality to take up that line of trade. His yard is located near
  the Ft. Wayne tracks at New Galilee, and there he carries all kinds of sawed
  lumber, in addition to the articles enumerated above. He is also an exporter
  in walnut logs, selling to various foreign markets. He owns a fine home, and
  a small farm in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania.
  
  In 1876, Robert G. Young formed a matrimonial alliance with Lucy Wallace, who
  was born in Lawrence county, and is a daughter of John and Margaret Wallace.
  Seven children were born to them, as follows: Clarence, who is in partnership
  with his father, and is a graduate of the Beaver Falls high school; Maggie;
  Rutherford J.; William Harvey; Mary E.; James G.; and Kenneth W. Personally,
  Mr. Young is a genial man, of public spirit, and is very popular locally. He
  is an earnest church worker, having built the Presbyterian church, and has
  been an elder since 1894. He is very liberal in his contributions toward its
  support. He is, politically, a Republican.