Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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ANDREW YOUNG, 
 
Superintendent of the motive power of the machine shops and  docks at Wilmington 
and San Pedro, is a native of Laprairie near Montreal, Canada, where he was born 
October 24, 1849. He served an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade at 
Sherbrook, Province of Quebec, and then went to Bay City, Michigan, where he 
remained several years. He came to California in 1875, went up the coast, and 
was with the Seattle Coal and Transportation Company three years on the sound; 
then he returned to San Francisco and was in the employ of the Fulton Iron Works 
until 1880, when he came to Wilmington as engineer on one of the steamers, and 
entered the employ of General Banning, having the supervision of the motive 
power on the boats of the company and on the docks and in the shops, and since 
then, for the past nine years, has held that position. Mr. Young was married 
December 30, 1874, to Miss Carrie Kent, a native of Sherbrook, Province of 
Quebec, and they have four children: Mabel, George A., Phineas B. and Fenton K.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 695
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler