From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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ZELL YOUNG 
	Zell Young came to Spokane Falls ten years before the territory was 
admitted to the union, it being 1879. He now conducts successfully a dairy 
but a short distance from the thriving town of Springdale, Stevens county.
   Pocahontas county, Iowa, is the place of his nativity, being born March 
26, 1865. His parents, Jerry and Lydia (Thomas) Young, were natives of Ohio.
As active and enterprising western pioneers they became, as it were one of 
the "First low wash of waves,where soon shall roll a human sea,"
   They visited nearly every state west of Ohio, arriving in Washington in 
1879 and locating in Spokane county. Following a two years' residence there
they removed to Cheney, where they remained two years, and thence, in 1884,
to Stevens county, where they now live. The father is seventy-five and the 
mother seventy-one. They are the parents of eight children: Alvah J.; Eva J.,
wife of James B. Litton, Springdale; F.L.,in Portland,Oregon; Henry, at 
Baker City, Oregon; Nellie M.,wife of J.S. Wright; Nettie and Jacob, twins,
deceased; and Zell, the subject of this sketch. In this family of children 
there were three pairs of twins.
   The educational advantages of our subject were found in the public schools
of Iowa, Kansas and Washington, the latter in the town of Cheney, Spokane 
county, where he attended the academy. His first employment, at the age of 
sixteen, was that of driving team, and he then followed other lines of 
business, going once to Montana where he worked in a butcher shop. He also 
rode the range for awhile as a cowboy. In 1894 he returned to Washington, 
and during the following four years worked on a ranch, subsequently mining 
and prospecting two years. He then purchased eighty acres of land, near 
Springdale, and rented eighty acres more, hayland, and in 1902 he began the 
business of dairying in which he is now engaged. He owns fifteen head of 
cattle and other stock.
   Mr.Young was married to Alice M. Marshall, widow of Oliver Marshall, in 
1901. She is a native of Indiana.
   Mr.Young is an intelligent and industrious reader, manifests a keen 
interest in the live issues of the day, and believes that socialism would 
more satisfactorily solve political and economic problems than either the 
Republican or Democratic parties. In 1902 he was the nominee of his party for
county commissioner. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, and M.W.A., While 
Mrs.Young ia a member of the R.N.A.
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