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(Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Crawford County, Ohio -
Chicago: 1902)
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R. M. YOUNGBLOOD,
who is occupying the position of clerk in the yard-master's
office of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company,
was born in the city of Indiana, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1840.
His father, William Youngblood, was a native of
Middleton, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and by trade was a
shoemaker, learning the business in early life, and following it
for a number of years. After his marriage he removed to Indiana,
Pennsylvania, and thence came to Ohio, locating in Alliance,
Stark county, where he died when about sixty years of age. He
was of German lineage, the original American ancestors having-
come from the fatherland. But the grandfather of our subject was
a native of the Keystone state. William Youngblood
married Miss Isabella McCune, who was a
native of Franklin county, where she resided up to the time of
her removal with her husband to Indiana county. She lived to
attain the age of eighty-five years and died in Alliance, Stark
county, Ohio. She was of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs.
Youngblood were the parents of fifteen children, thirteen of
whom reached years of maturity, while eight of the family are
still living, four of the brothers being railroad men.
Mr. Youngblood, of this review, was the
eleventh in order of birth and is now the only one of the
brothers in the railroad office. He was in his eighteenth year
when he accompanied his parents on their removal from
Pennsylvania to Alliance, and at that time he secured a position
as freight brakeman, running from Crestline to Alliance and
Allegheny. In 1862 he was made freight conductor and followed
that business with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
Company until 1871, when he was made a passenger conductor,
running from Crestline to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, until 1885,
covering a period of almost a quarter of a century, serving as
conductor of the same road. In 1885-6 he tended the switches in
the Crestline yards and from 1886 until 1899 was assistant
yardmaster at Crestline, since which time he has occupied his
present position in the yardmasters office. The large railroad
corporations are exacting in their demands made on their
employes, yet are quick- to recognize faithful service, and to
continue in their employ those. who are true, faithful and
capable and to this class belongs Mr. Youngblood,.
who has been with the company through the entire period of his
business careen On the 24th of December, 1863, occurred the
marriage of Mr. Youngblood and Miss
Sarah Hunt, a native of Huron county, Ohio, born in
the village of London. They became the parents of three
children: Harry, who is living in Crestline; Minnie,
at home; and Frank, who is a clerk in the office of the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company. In his
political views Mr. Youngblood is a stanch.
Republican and is well known among the representative people of
the county. He is a member of the Volunteer Relief Railroad
Society, an organization formed for the relief of all in Heed of
assistance who' are in the railroad employ. For forty-one years
he has been connected with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
line and is therefore one of its oldest employes. It would be
difficult for anyone in this or other walks of life to show a
record of more faithful service than Mr. Youngblood
has done, and to those who desire advancement his history should
furnish an example worthy of emulation in showing the power of
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