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OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES:
BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
by H. W. Beckwith
Publ. Chicago: H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers
1879
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JACOB YAPP has
been for a number of years one of the leading business men of
Georgetown. He has always exhibited the broad public
spirit, and gives that close attention to business which
commands success under any circumstances. Frequently
called to attend to the public affairs of his town, he has shown
himself a wise and faithful officer and a good citizen, while in
his own business affairs he has maintained a reputation for
business integrity of the highest order.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio -
Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 553 |
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Newell Twp. -
CHARLES S. YOUNG, Bismark, farmer and
stock-raiser, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, on the 16th
of September, 1809, and is a son of James and Lucinda (Baldmin)
Young. When sixteen years old he moved into Harrison county,
Kentucky, and on the 14th of January, 1829, was married to
Elizabeth Leonard. He emigrated to Newell township,
Vermilion county, Illinois, where he arrived on the 14th of
October, 1830, and settled near the present site of Pleasant
View church. He served as a volunteer in Col. Moore's regiment
during the Black-hawk war. In 1843 Mr. Young engaged in
the stock business, which from that time forth grew into an
extensive trade. Seventeen summers in succession he bought and
drove horses to market, in 1846 extending his business to
include cattle, and, during the whole of that year, kept stock
in Cincinnati on sale. He was a heavy patron of the Chicago,
Danville & Vincennes Railroad, donating to the company on
certain conditions twenty acres of land on which Bismark stands,
and deeds to the "right of way" for six and a half miles of
track of the Branch road through Newell township. As agent of
the company he superintended their improvements about Bismark.
He has changed his abode but once since he came here. In 1860
he bought and occupied the farm where he now resides. He
commenced in Newell township with two ponies and seventy-five
cents in cash, and is now one of the wealthiest farmers in
Vermilion county, and has made his riches without aid from
anybody. Mr. Young has some two thousand acres of land and
twenty-one tenants. He reared three sons and six daughters.
One of the former served in Co. B, 125th Ill. Vols., and was
discharged shortly before his term of service expired, on
account of disability. He since died. Mr. Young
cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and has
been voting "Old Hickory" principles ever since. His wife died
on the 21st of November, 1871.
Source: History of Vermilion
County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 953 -
Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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Newell Twp. -
NOAH YOUNG, Bismark,
farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Newell township, Vermilion
county, Illinois, on the 20th of July, 1838, on the Hollensworth
farm. He is a son of Charles S. and Elizabeth (Leonard)
Young, and has always been engaged in farming and the stock
business. Mr. Young was married on the 19th of February,
1863, to Mary Cunningham, who was born on the 3d of
August, 1844, on the Franklin Adams farm,
and was reared on the Price or Martin Powell
farm in Newell township. They have six living children :
Halena, born on the 25th of December, 1863; Charles Scott,
on the 9th of November, 1865; Ann Elizabeth, on
the 7th of October, 1867; James William, on the 17th of
February, 1875, Josie Dean, on the 5th of June, 1878, and
Lillie May, on the 10th of April, 1879. He owns three
hundred and seventy acres, worth $15,000. In politics he is a
democrat, and in religion a New Light.
Source: History of Vermilion
County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 958 -
Submitted by Mary Paullius |
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JAMES T. YOUNT, Fairmount, farmer,
was born in Gallion county, Kentucky, on the 30th of March,
1813, and came to Vermilion county with his parents in 1829, and
first located eight miles west of where M. Yount now
resides. One of Mr. Yount's brothers was in the
Blackhawk war. Mr. Yount has been twice married.
His former wife was Emaline Halden. They were married in
1857. She was born in Monroe county, Virginia, on the 23d
of March, 1841, and died in 1864. His second marriage was
to Eliza E. Worl, on the 22d day of June, 1877. She
was born in 1849. Mr. Yount has two children by his
former wife: Mary E. and William G., and one
by his present wife: Charles.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio -
Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page
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