Fremont Young Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 521-522

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FREMONT YOUNG, the genial and obliging postmaster of Faulkton, South 
Dakota, was born in Clearfield, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, August 
14, 1861, and is the oldest in a family of four children, whose parents 
were John C. and Elizabeth A. (Brickley) Young, also natives of 
Pennsylvania, and of German descent. By occupation the father was a 
lumberman in the east, but after the removal of the family to Iowa,in 
1872, he followed agricultural pursuits. Our subject's great-
grandfather, John A. Young, settled in Pennsylvania on his emigration 
from Germany prior to the Revolutionary war, and was one of the men who 
fought so bravely for the freedom of the colonies in that conflict.  

On starting out in life for himself at the age of nineteen years, 
Fremont Young entered the office of "The Atlantic Telegraph," of 
Atlantic, Iowa, to learn the printer's trade, and served a three years' 
apprenticeship. In 1884 he came to Miller, South Dakota, and was 
employed on "The Miller Press" until the spring of 1888, when he went 
to Huron as foreman on the "Daily News." After the failure of that 
paper, in the fall of 1888, he came to Faulkton, where he worked on the 
"Faulkton Record" for one year. At the end of that time he and A. E. 
Evans purchased the "Faulk County Democrat," and changed the name to 
the "Faulk County Republican," which they conducted for four years. 
Until the fall of 1897 Mr. Young was identified with the publication of 
different papers in Faulkton. He was then appointed postmaster at that 
place by President McKinley and is filling that office in a most able 
and commendable manner. In the spring of 1898 he started a fruit and 
confectionery store in connection with the post office and still 
successfully conducts the same. On first coming to this state, in 1884, 
he took up a pre-emption in Hand county, erected thereon a shanty, 8 x 
12 feet, and later sold the relinquishment.  

In 1889, Mr. Young wedded Miss Mary E. Kendall, who was born and reared 
in Missouri, and is a daughter of D. F. Kendall, a farmer and early 
settler of Faulk county, South Dakota. Two children bless this union: 
Pearl J., now five years old; and Madaline B., aged two. In his 
political views, Mr. Young is a pronounced Republican and he has taken 
quite an influential part in local politics. He has served as a 
delegate to numerous county conventions of his party, and was a 
delegate to the state convention in 1892. He was also elected alderman 
of Faulkton that year and held the office five years, resigning the 
same on his appointment as postmaster. Socially he is connected with 
the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.