Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN N. YOUNG

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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     law firm of Young & Young, southeast corner of 5th and J streets Sacramento; 
was born May, 25, 1844; graduated from the Law Department University 
of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1869, came to Sacramento in the same year and 
engaged in practice of law; was admitted to Supreme Court of the United States 
October 23, of the same year: was member of Board of Education in Sacramento 
City from 1877 to 1878; was elected to State Legislature September 3, 1879. In 
February 1875 married Mary Josephine Hamilton, a native of Santa Clara County, 
California, born December 6, 1853; daughter of Rev. Hiram Hamilton; was educated 
at the State Normal School at San Francisco; subsequently entered Perry's 
Seminary at Sacramento, graduating with honor in May 1873. After her marriage 
she studied law in the office of her husband, and on May 13, 1879, was admitted 
to the bar of Supreme Court of California, after a most rigid examination; so 
that to her belongs the honor of being the first, and up to this date the only 
woman admitted to the Supreme Court in this State. In June 15, 1879, she formed 
a law copartnership with her husband under the firm name of Young & Young. 
"Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" of August 16, 1879, contains a fine 
portrait and sketch of Mrs. Young. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.