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STEPHEN M. YOUNG.
This prominent and successful attorney at law, who is held in the
highest esteem by both his confreres at the bar of Huron county and the
public at large, has the distinguished privilege of claiming descent from a
variety of nationalities. Through his father he has inherited the
vigorous, hardy and courageous blood of the Scot and Scotch-Irish; to his
mother he is indebted for having in him much of the vivacity and polish of
the French, beside the stability and conservatism of the Holland-Dutch,
whilst for some generations back the family have been wide-awake Americans.
The Young family are (as already intimated) Scotch-Irish, and the
maternal grandmother of our subject was a Brennan. His maternal
great-grandmother was a cousin to Aaron Burr.
Mr. Young is a son of Downing H. Young,
who was born in Virginia August 6, 1816, one of a fmaily of fifteen
children. At Shelby, Ohio, Downing was married to Angelina
Marvin, a highly educated lady, and from her he received his chief
English education after marriage. In early life he commenced the study
of law, and in due course was admitted to the bar at Mansfield, Ohio, where
he commenced the practice of his chosen profession. Moving to Norwalk,
he here continued to conduct his law business, his practice of covering in
all a period of over forty -five years. He and his faithful wife are
now passing the declining years of their honored lives at the old homestead.
Eleven children were born to them, Stephen being eighth in order of
birth. Four of his brothers were in the Federal army during the Civil
war, viz.: Andrew J., who died at Danville, Ky.; Henry,
mortally wounded December 31, 1862, at Stone River, Tenn., dying January 3,
1863; Samuel, who served six years in the army, escaping wounds, and
dying at his home afterward; Howard, who served his full time, and
also escaped being wounded. Daniel and George Marvin,
brothers of our subject's mother, were also in the war, both being wounded,
the latter several times, but they escaped with their lives.
Charles and John Marvin also served in the Union army, the former
as surgeon. B. Howard, husband of our subject's sister, was in
an Ohio regiment, and died in Andersonville prison.
Stephen M. Young, the subject proper of this
sketch, was born in Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, March 27, 1848.
When he was about seven years of age he removed to Toledo, where he remained
till 1860, and then came to New Haven, Huron Co., same State. He has
received his elementary education at the common schools in Mansfield,
Toledo, and New Haven, after which he entered Oberlin College. On
completing his studies, in 1867, he commenced teaching school, first in
Crawford county, Ohio; after which he became assistant in one of the public
schools of Cincinnati, in which capacity he continued three years, and then,
in consequence of impaired health, he had to abandon teaching. We next
find him acting in the capacity of agent in Shelby, Ohio, for the Merchants
Insurance Company, of Chicago, before the great fire in Chicago, 1871, which
among many other calamities resulted in the closing up of this company along
with a host of others. Mr. Young then engaged in a similar
capacity with the Underwriters Association of Philadelphia. During all
this time he was industriously pursuing the study of law, and in 1873 he was
admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio. After a brief bar at Columbus,
Ohio. After a brief sojourn in Plymouth, Richland Co., Ohio, he moved
to Bucyrus, Crawford Co., same State, where he commenced the regular
practice of law in May, 1875, continuing till October, 1878, when he came to
Norwalk, and has since here remained successfully practicing his profession,
and building up a reputation as a learned and shrewd jurist, in civil,
criminal and corporation law.
On July 29, 1877, Mr. Young was married in
Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Isabella Wagner, and five children were born
to them, viz.: Walburga, Henry, Don John, Stephen Marvin, Jr.,
and Isabella Wagner. In politics Mr. Young is a
Republican; socially he is a Freemason, and a member of the Knights of
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