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HENRY YOUNG. The venerable subject of the following sketch was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., December 20, 1802; his parents emigrated to the North west in 1816, and settled on a tract of land lying on Eagle Creek, in Franklin Township, Brown Co., Ohio. There Mr. Young was employed in farming for many years, and here, April 12, 1821, he was married to his estimable wife. Mrs. Young, whose maiden name was Nancy Spires, was six years the senior of her husband, having been born December 2, 1796. Recently, they commemorated the sixty-first anniversary of their happy marriage by a birthday festival, which was joined by three persons, who were guests at the wedding feast sixty-one years ago; they were John Spires, Mrs. Sallie Smith and Mrs. Jane Peddicord, brother and sisters of Mrs. Young. Fifteen years after his union with Miss Spires, that is to say in 1836, he moved to his present home in Scott Township, having previously bought of Garland Anderson the mill, then known as the “Anderson mill,” and a farm of seventy acres, attached, for $4,000. Mr. Young has since added several hundred acres to his original purchase, and is now one of the largest land owners in the county. When the cholera broke out in 1849, in New Hope, he left his farm and business, and devoted his whole attention to caring for and cheering the sick and dying. He and Martin Gotts and Perry Applegate took a mutual pledge to give their time, their energy, and, if need be, their lives to the heroic conquest of the dread scourge. They faithfully kept the pledge, but at the cast of two lives — Gotts and Applegate, who fell victims to the enemy. Mr. Young has always been an ardent upholder of the party whose father was Jefferson. He has been called to fill offices of trust and profit, both in the township and county; he was Township Treasurer for many years; was three times elected a Justice of the Peace; and in 1852 was chosen Sheriff of Brown County. He is a member, or was, of White Oak Lodge, No. 292, and an earnest working Mason. Four children were the issue of his matrimonial alliance — Richard, Matilda Reynolds, Lucinda and Robert, of whom only the second child, Matilda, is living.