Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Young, Fremont 1861 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis


    FREMONT YOUNG was born in Clearfield, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania,

August 14th, 1861, and is the oldest of a family of four children, whose parents

were John C. and Elizabeth (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 his family to Iowa in 1872, he followed agricultural pursuits.

Mr. Young's great grandfather, John A. Young, emigrated from Germany prior to

the Revolutionary War and was one of the men who fought so bravely for the

colonies in that conflict.



    On starting out for himself at the age of nineteen years, Fremont Young

entered the office of the Atlantic Telegraph at Atlantic, Iowa, to learn the

printers trade and served a three year's apprenticeship.



    In 1884 he came to Miller, Hand county, Dakota Territory, and wai employed

on the Miller Press until 1888, when he went to Huron, Beadle county, as a

foreman on the Daily News. After the failure of that paper in the fall of 1888

he came to Faulkton and 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. In 1897 he was appointed to the office of

postmaster at Faulkton, which office he filled for four years. Upon his

resignation, his wife, Eva M. Young, was appointed to fill the vacancy and is

now the popular and successful postmaster in this city after five years service

in that important position.



    On first coming to Dakota in 1884, Mr. Young took up a preemption and built

an 8 by 12 shanty thereon, but sold his relinquishment.



    In 1889 Mr. Young wedded Miss Mary E. Kendall, who was born and reared in

the state of Missouri, and is a daughter of D. F. Kendall, who was a farmer and

an early settler in Faulk county. To them have been born two children, viz:

Pearl J., now fifteen years old, and Madeline B., age twelve.



    In his political views, Mr. Young is a pronounced republican, and is now

editor of the Faulkton Advocate and has always taken quite an influential part

in local politics. He has served as delegate to numerous county conventions of

his party, and was a delegate to the republican state convention in 1892. He was

also elected alderman of Faulkton that year, and held that office five years,

resigning upon being appointed postmaster.



    Socially he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order

of the United Workman.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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