Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 1114

 HENRY N. YOUNG, residing on section 10, Payne Township, represents property to the amount of 160 acres in the home farm and eighty acres one-half mile distant, besides a half interest in the town site of Greenwich. He is carrying on farming and stock-raising successfully, and is yet in the prime of life, having been horn April 25, 1837.

             Carson and Anna (Woldrich)Young, the parents of our subject, were natives of Hanover, Germany, and spent their entire lives near the place of their birth. The father was a blacksmith by trade, which he followed many years, and their family consisted of eight children, of whom but four are living, and only two, our subject and his brother, Carson H., in the United States. The latter crossed the Atlantic in 1860, locating in Indiana, and April 18, during the first year of the war, enlisted in the 10th Indiana Infantry, and served three years and nearly five months.

             After receiving his honorable discharge, in 1864, Mr. Young continued in the employ of the Government as a carpenter nine months at Chattanooga, Tenn., then returning to Indiana he worked in LaFayette as a carpenter for a railroad company for a year and a half, then in Attica commenced learning the cooper's trade with a brother-in-law. They operated together three years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Young returned to Germany on a visit to his old friends. This ended he came back to America and homesteaded his present farm, taking up his residence here in the fall of 1870. The whole is now enclosed with good fences, supplied with substantial buildings, with an orchard, and all other things necessary for the convenience and comfort of the proprietor.

             The wife of Mr. Young was formerly Miss Annie M. Reimer, daughter of John M. and Rebecca M. (Britka) Reimer, who were also natives of Germany and are now deceased. Their four children were named William, Anna M., Mary and John. The two sons are in the United States. Mrs. Young was born April 4, 1848, and departed this life at her residence in Payne Township, Dec. 8, 1887. In this sad bereavement the husband and father received the sympathies of the entire community. Mrs. Young was a member in good standing of the Lutheran Church, and a lady greatly respected by all who knew her. The children born of this marriage were named respectively: Peter William, Anna M., Sophia, Henry Nichols, Carson H., G. C. M. D. and Lydia W. C.

             During his army life Mr. Young participated in hard-fought battles, and was wounded at Rich Mountain by a grape shot fired from a cannon at short range through the woods. The shot struck his pocket-book, going directly through a plug of navy tobacco, and tore his pocket-knife into fragments. He was seriously disabled for some time and now receives a pension from the Government.

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