Harrison County, West Virginia          Biography of Laco Loy 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 111
Pg. 364


Laco Loy Young, sheriff of Harrison County, is a brother to the secretary of
state of West Virginia, and both have been men of power in county politics
and local affairs for a great many years.

Sheriff Young was born on a farm in Barbour County, West Virginia, December
7, 1869, son of David Sylvester and Sarah Ann (Pickens) Young.  His father,
a native of Old Virginia, was a child when his parents, William W. and
Hettie (Griffith) Young, moved to Harrison County, West Virginia, where they
lived out their lives.  They were Scotch Presbyterians.  William W. Young
became a farmer, also learned the blacksmith's trade, and was one of the
pioneers of that occupation in Harrison County.  The mother of Sheriff Young
was born in West Virginia, daughter of John and Hannah (Corder) Pickens, who
came from Old Virginia.  She died at the age of fifty-five, leaving four
children: Laco L.; Addie V., deceased; Edna M., wife of A.G. Whitesell, of
Weston; and Houston Goff, who is now in his second term as secretary of
state of West Virginia and is still a resident of Harrison County.  The
father of these children is still living on the old homestead not far from
where the grandfather settled in Harrison County.  David S. Young was a
teamster in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Laco L. Young grew up on the homestead in Harrison County, made good use of
his advantages in the rural schools, and finally attended the Holbrook
Normal University.  When only sixteen he was given his first school to
teach, and for six years he played an effective part in the educational
program of his community.  His chief occupation throughout his career,
however, has been farming, and he is one of the men who have achieved
something more than an ordinary success in agriculture.  From the farm his
interested have taken on a broadening scope and he is interested in the
wholesale meat business at Clarksburg.

Mr. Young for a number of years has been actively interested in the success
of the republican party in Harrison County, but not until 1920 did he come
forward as an active candidate for himself.  In that year he won the
republican nomination for sheriff, and at the November election received the
largest vote given to any man on the county ticket.  Sheriff Young is a
Methodist and a member of the Knight of Pythias.

In 1891 he married Miss Byrdie Stout, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abner S.
Stout, of Harrison County.  To their marriage were born ten children: Their
son Clayton G. Young in now deputy sheriff under his father, is an
ex-service man, and for thirteen months was overseas with the Third Army
Division.  He is an active member of the American Legion Post of Clarksburg.