BIO: John W. YOUNG, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 691 & 692.
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  JOHN W. YOUNG, who satisfactorily combines general farming and coal operating 
on a tract of seventy-one acres of exceedingly valuable land, which he owns in 
Ferguson Township, Clearfield County, Pa., has given his property the pleasant 
name of Clover Root farm and as such it is known all over the county.  He was 
born in Center County, Pa., March 24, 1848, and is a son of Albert and Mary 
(Wagoner) Young.
  Albert Young came to Clearfield County with his wife and six of their 
children, two having previously died in Center County.  Three of the family 
survive, namely:  John W., Mrs. Mary Kester, and Mrs. Sophia McMurray, all of 
whom live in Clearfield County.  Albert Young bought fifty acres of land in 
Ferguson Township, the same now being owned by his son, which was entirely 
unimproved.  He cleared the land and cultivated it according to the old and 
systematic methods of the Dutch, among whom he had learned farming.  The land 
responded to his care and it is now considered some of the most productive soil 
in the township, Mr. Young producing 100 bushels of corn to the acre and other 
crops with corresponding yields.
  John W. Young attended the country schools in boyhood but as soon as he was 
old enough to profitably handle a farm implement, there was work for him to do.  
He carries on general farming, occasionally doing a little trucking and giving 
some attention to raising stock.  For the past twelve years he has been 
operating a coal bank which is on the old homestead farm, and has the third 
opening on the 32-inch vein of coal, taking out some ten thousand bushels of 
coal annually.  Mr. Young and his son do the most of the mining themselves and 
also do the delivering.  They own some fifty acres of this rich coal land.  
Twenty acres of the farm is covered with second growth timber.
  Mr. Young married Miss Mary McCracken, a daughter of Green McCracken, who, 
with his wife Elizabeth, were old residents of Ferguson Township.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Young have been the parents of thirteen children:  Elizabeth, Lydia, George, 
Minta, Albert, Mollie, Sadie, William, Erla, Dove, Leslie, Ruth and Imo.  
Elizabeth was married to Charles Strong; had one child, is now deceased.  Lydia 
married Walter Maurer; they have three children.  George is married to Bertha 
Witherite; they have seven children.  Minta married John Lang; have seven 
children.  Albert married Alice Williams; have four children.  Mollie married 
Clark Witherite; they have four children.  Sadie married Clark Woods and they 
have five children.  William married Lucy Williams, and they have two children.  
Dove has been recently married to Warren Currey.  Erla, Leslie, Ruth and Imo 
still reside at home.  Mr. Young and family attend the Baptist church at 
Kerrmoor, of which they are members.  In politics he is a Democrat.