STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 110
In Mr. Young's "make up" there is a strange anomaly. There is the redeeming trait of love of home, but in his earlier years it was tinged with a slight desire to ramble. Mr. Young was born in Harrison county, Indiana, November 18, 1833. He worked on the farm and went to school until he was twenty-one years of age, when the roving spirit seemed to get the better of him and he took to "flatboating." There is no record that he ever carried a cargo of Posey county's celebrated "fruit and lumber," known as hoop poles and pumpkins, yet he followed this occupation for two years during the winter season and worked upon the farm in the summer. He made a number of voyages down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In his travels he had heard of the fame of "Elinoy," and accordingly, in the spring of 1855, he journeyed to this country and brought up at Griggsville landing on March 16. The latter part of March, in '55, he came to Scott county, worked that summer for Frederick Bean and in the fall put in a crop of wheat for himself. In the spring of 1856 he rented land and went to farming.
On March 16, 1857, he was married to Miss Lucinda J. Flynn. They have been the parents of six children, three they lost in infancy and three they have reared. The living are: Silas Mc and Miss Ann Hattie, who reside in Winchester, and Thomas J., who is at present a resident of Gates, Custer county, Nebraska.
Ed. Young has been a power in Scott county. He has worked hard and has accumulated considerable property. He has been strictly honest, fair in his dealings and now in quiet and retirement at Winchester he is enjoying the fruits of his labors.