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EZRA P. YOUNG, Sewickley, is a great-grandson of Samuel C. and Dorcas Clarke, of Clarkesville, Greene county, Pa. Samuel C., the grandson of Samuel Clarke, came to Shousetown when a lad, and was apprenticed to old Peter Shouse to learn the boat-builder’s trade, soon earning a wide reputation as an excellent mechanic. He built the following boats: Clipper No. 2, Rescue, Advance, Reliance, Sam Young, Challenge, Denmark, Hawkeye State, Kenton, etc. He built many light boats for the southern trade. Later in life he went to West Virginia and drilled for oil. He died November 13, 1861, aged forty-six years. He took an active interest in church work, and helped to build the Union church at Shousetown. He married Margaret C. Anderson, daughter of Squire Robert Anderson, an early settler of Sewickley valley, who survives him. Of their children, Ezra P. was born in Shousetown, and educated in a private school and at the university at Pittsburgh. At an early age he was assistant teller in the Citizens’ National bank of Pittsburgh, then styled Citizens’ bank, after which he followed the river for seven years as clerk, and in the last year of the civil war was in the United States government employ, on the steamer John S. Hall, on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Afterward he was clerk on the steamer R. C. Gray. From 1869 to 1877 he was cashier of the People’s Savings bank of Allegheny. Then was cashier and general manager of the Pittsburgh exposition till 1883, when the exposition buildings burned. Since then he has had charge of three large “Thomas concerts,” and helped to establish the Ohio Valley Gas company, of which he is now treasurer, and has been secretary and general manager. He is also interested in the coal and steamboat business in Pittsburgh. Since 1860 he has resided in Edgeworth, Leet township, near Sewickley, where he has considerable land, and has done much to further the interest and beauty of that town by building houses.