OBIT: Frederick Elijah YOUNKIN, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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FREDERICK ELIJAH YOUNKIN

Attorney Dies In Connellsville

  Funeral services for Attorney Fred E. Younkin, who died in the Connellsville 
State Hospital Sunday evening, Jan. 24, 1943, were held Wednesday in the 
Mitchell Funeral Chapel, Connellsville, at 2:30 p.m.  Dr. W. Rufus Hofelt, 
pastor of the First Methodist Church officiated.  Interment in the Hill Grove 
Cemetery.
  Frederick Elijah Younkin was a Somerset Countian, born in Upper Turkeyfoot 
Township, October 28, 1874, the son of the late Michael and Anna Marie 
McClintock Younkin, a member of the old Pennsylvania family founded in America 
by Johann Herman Junkin, a native of Holland.  His great-grandfather was 
Frederick F. Younkin, all residents of Western Pennsylvania.  His father was a 
stage driver in early life and later a farmer.  His mother was born in the same 
township in 1834 and died in 1904.
  He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Maud Elizabeth Scott of Lower 
Turkeyfoot Township, the daughter of the late Noah and Margaret Ferguson Scott.  
One sister survives, Mrs. J. O. Henry, Connellsville.
  Mr. Younkin received his early education in the public schools of Upper 
Turkeyfoot Township and later attended normal school at New Lexington, and West 
Virginia Conference Seminary, now West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, 
W.Va.  He was graduated in 1899 from Northern Indiana, and received a degree of 
bachelor of arts from Valparaiso College.  Later he served as principal in the 
Third Ward school at Connellsville while studying law in the office of Sterling, 
Highbee, Dumbauld and Brown.  Following his admission to the bar he opened his 
own office.  He had a steadily growing practice.  He was a Republican in 
politics.
  Mr. Younkin was a member of the Fayette County Bar Association, the 
Pennsylvania State Bar Association and the Commerical Law League of America.  He 
had been active in various Masonic orders and was a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows.

Meyersdale Republican, January 28, 1943