BIO: Josiah Carothers YOUNG, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 245.
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  YOUNG, JOSIAH CAROTHERS, son of Daniel H. Young, and Sarah Duncan, 
was born April 17, 1821, at Harrisburg, Pa.  He was educated in the 
common schools of the borough and learned the trade of a carpenter, 
which occupation he followed several years.  He subsequently taught 
school, and at the time of his death was a teacher in the public 
schools of Harrisburg.  For a long period he was engaged in mercantile 
pursuits at Dauphin and Harrisburg.  From 1860 to 1868 he was 
prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Dauphin county, a position he 
filled with great acceptability.  He died at Harrisburg, April 1, 1881, 
aged almost sixty years.  He was a faithful and conscientious public 
officer, an honored and respected citizen, while in the Methodist 
Church, of which body he was an ordained local preacher, highly 
esteemed as a sincere and devout laborer.  Mr. Young married, September 
21, 1843, Catherine Mary Kinter, daughter of George and Elizabeth 
Kinter, who survived him, and their children were William N., John W., 
George C., Charles W., Albert H., Charles C., and William L.