Gilmer County, West Virginia    Biography of Guy B. YOUNG

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 93

Guy B. YOUNG has found in his native county ample
opportunity for successful achievement in the work of his
profession, is one of the able and representative members
of the bar of Gilmer County, and is engaged in active
practice at Glenville, the county seat. He was born on a
farm near Troy, this county, September 26, 1874, and is a
son of Capt. A. B. and Elizabeth (Hanger) Young, the
former of whom was born April 2, 1832, in what is now
Harrison County, West Virginia, and the latter of whom
was born near Staunton, Virginia, in 1840. The parents
received excellent educational advantages, as gauged by the
standards of locality and period, and the father became
a successful teacher in the subscriptions schools of the
day. Capt. A. B. Young went forth as a loyal soldier of
the Confederacy when the Civil war was precipitated on the
nation, and was captain of a company in the command of
Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson. He lived up to the full ten-
sion of the conflict, and in battle was three times wounded.
After the close of the war he settled on a farm near Troy,
Gilmer County, and with the passing years he achieved
substantial success as an agriculturist and stock-grower.
He added to his farm property until he had a valuable
estate of 300 acres, and he remained on the homestead
farm until 1902, when he sold the place and purchased a
farm of 450 acres in Wirt County, where he passed the re-
mainder of his life. He was a stanch democrat, and he
served from 1896 to 1900 as county assessor of Gilmer
County. He was affiliated with the United Confederate
Veterans and his religious faith was that of the Methodist
Protestant Church, his first wife having been a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He was twice married, and be-
came the father of seventeen children. Of the six children
of the first marriage, five are living at the time of this
writing, in 1921: Jacob W. is engaged in the mercantile
business at Newell, Hancock County; Rev. J. Arthur Young
was graduated in a theological seminary in the City of
Louisville, Kentucky, and is a clergyman of the Baptist
Church; Warren D. is a merchant at Palestine, Wirt
County; Guy B., of this sketch, was the next in order of
birth; and George H., who is a mechanic by vocation, re-
sides in the City of Parkersburg, this state.

The childhood and early youth of Guy B. Young were
compassed by the influences and discipline of the home
farm, and after leaving the public schools he entered the
State Normal School at Glenville, in which he continued his
studies until his graduation. In preparation for his chosen
profession he entered the law department of the University
of West Virginia, in which he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1903 and with the degree of Bachelor of
Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar, and in the
same year he initiated the practice of his profession at Glen-
ville, where he has since continued his law business, much
of which is in connection with his service as legal repre
sentative of the South Penn Oil Company. Mr. Young is a
democrat in political allegiance, and he served for a time
as deputy county clerk of Gilmer County. He was formerly
engaged in farm enterprise near Glenville, and is at the
present time owner of royalty interests on several farms
in this county. He is affiliated with the Junior Order
United Ameiican Mechanics, and he and his wife hold
membership in the Baptist Church.

Mr. Young married Miss Love H. Fling, whose education
included a business course and who had held a position as a
skilled stenographer for one year prior to her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Young have four children: Guy Bayard, Jr..
Donald Bell, Maynard Fling and Mary Elizabeth.