Butte County Biographies

JOHN C. YOUNG

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson

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Mr. Young was born in the province of New Brunswick.  He came to the United 
States and settled in California in 1852.  For seven years he mined on 
Thompson�s flat.  In 1866, he purchased his farm in Gridley.  It consists of two 
hundred and forty acres of highly improved land, on which he has a very 
comfortable and convenient residence.  Mr. and Mrs. Young have had four sons and 
one daughter born to them, the latter deceased.  Mr. Young is one of the 
substantial men of Butte county.
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present 
Time - Vol. II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1882.