Jacob Brown Young

• Residence: Beech Creek Township (west half), Greene, Indiana - 1900
• Residence: Wabash, Tippecanoe, Indiana - 1910
• Residence: Jefferson, Greene, Indiana - 1920
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 14 2017, 5:00:35 UTC

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JACOB BROWN YOUNG  a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, was born December 17, 1855. His father died and left him, at the age of eight years, in the care of his mother, who afterward married William V. Ferguson. In the year 1864, he came with the family of James Crawford to Greene County, Ind., settling in Beech Creek Township, which has ever since been his home, and where he is well known and himself and family universally respected. Mr. Young received a good education in the schools of this county, but not being satisfied with the benefits derived from the common schools, he embarked in school teaching, and in this way, and by other hard work, accumulated sufficient means to enter the State University at Bloomington. He remained at this institution four years, and besides being a hard student was one of the leading spirits of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. In August, 1878, he became associated with James Crawford in the general merchandise business at Newark, which continued a few years, when A.J. Shields purchased Mr.Crawford's interest. The firm now carries a well-assorted stock of goods valued at about $4,500. and are doing the leading business of the town. March 17, 1880, Miss Kate Kelsey, of Owen County, this State, became Mrs. Jacob Brown Young, and the union has been blessed with one daughter--Grace Edwards. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.Young is one of the county's self-made men, beginning life's battle a poor boy and by upright dealings acquiring a competence. He is a Democrat, and member of the subordinate lodge of Odd Fellowship, in which fraternity he has filled nearly every office two times, once representing his lodge in the Grand Lodge of the State.

Beech Creek TWP. Source: History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, state of Indiana: from the earliest time to the present, together with interesting biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc. Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1884 824 pgs. 400 page .