 1862 - 1950 (88 years)
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| Name |
Young, Louis L. [1] |
| Born |
2 Mar 1862 |
Burt County, Nebraska, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
26 Jun 1950 |
Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA [1] |
| Buried |
Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I62893 |
Sackett |
| Last Modified |
13 Mar 2021 |
| Father |
Young, Andrew, d. Unknown |
| Mother |
Brand, Edwinna I., d. Unknown |
| Children |
| + | 1. Young, Louis L., b. 2 Mar 1862, Burt County, Nebraska, USA , d. 26 Jun 1950, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA (Age 88 years) |
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| Family ID |
F25678 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Sackett, Helen D., b. 15 Aug 1867, Seneca County, New York, USA , d. 5 Apr 1934, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA (Age 66 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Young, Louis A., b. Abt 1898, d. Unknown |
| | 2. Young, Charles E., b. Abt 1900, d. Unknown |
| | 3. Young, Harold C., b. Abt 1903, d. Unknown |
| | 4. Young, Miles M., b. Abt 1905, d. Unknown |
| | 5. Young, Dean A., b. Abt 1907, d. Unknown |
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| Last Modified |
13 Mar 2021 |
| Family ID |
F25677 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 2 Mar 1862 - Burt County, Nebraska, USA |
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 | Died - 26 Jun 1950 - Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA |
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 | Buried - - Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 2), 12 Mar 2021.
Memorial ID 125506225
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125506225
Louis L Young
Birth 2 Mar 1862
Burt County, Nebraska, USA
Death 26 Jun 1950 (aged 88)
Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Kohlerlawn Cemetery
Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA
Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920
L. L. Young, a farmer of Canyon county whose interest in public affairs and devotion to the general welfare are manifest in his services as county commissioner, was born in a log house in Burt county. Nebraska, March 2, 1862. His parents, Andrew and Edvinnia (Brand) Young, were pioneers of Nebraska, having removed from Columbus. Ohio, to that state in 1856. The mother was a native of New Jersey and died in Nebraska in 1913. The father was born in Germany, came to the United States in 1849 and passed away in 1895 at Oakland, Nebraska, where he had been engaged in merchandising. Mayland Brand, the maternal grandfather of L. L. Young, was at one time owner of the land upon which the city of Columbus, Ohio, now stands, having removed there in 1833 from New Jersey. The ancestors of the Brand family were among the Pilgrim Fathers of Massachusetts.
L. L. Young acquired his early education in the common schools of his native county, which he attended to the age of nineteen years, and was one of the class which took the first course in the Agricultural College held there in 1891. In the same year the Farmers Institute was established there and Mr. Young was elected secretary, a position which he held for fifteen years. Four sessions were held each year and the work was carried forward most successfully, Mr. Young never missing a single meeting of these sessions. He became widely known throughout the state and was elected state vice president of the Farmers National Congress and reelected every two years for eight consecutive years. He was also vice president of the State Live Stock Breeders Association for one year and was appointed delegate at large to represent Nebraska at the convention of the National Live Stock Association for several years. He was also one of those who had charge of the county exhibit at the state fair, where he won the gold medal and six hundred dollars in cash. He always took an active part in the county fairs and for a number of years was superintendent of the horticultural department. He was likewise active in the social life of the community and in its moral development, acting as superintendent of the Sunday school for twenty years. At the same time he was a most capable and successful business man, having one of the most finely managed stock farms in Nebraska, devoted to the raising of registered Hereford cattle and Poland China hogs. His place comprised five hundred acres of Burt county land. His activity in politics was for the good of the community and the state rather than for personal gain or prominence.
Coming to Idaho in 1908, Mr. Young went to Idaho Falls and in company with Governor Davis looked over the dry farming district, studying the conditions of the country between that place and Nampa. He then returned over the same route, making further study and comparisons, and finally decided to locate in the vicinity of Nampa, where he purchased four hundred and sixteen acres of raw land, covered with sagebrush. This he enclosed with a hog tight, high woven wire fence and proceeded to improve the land, which is now under irrigation and has thirty thousand dollars worth of improvements upon it. He has an acre and a half under roof. His barn is one of the finest and largest in the state, being sixty-six by one hundred feet. His residence was erected at a cost of over seven thousand dollars and is modern in every respect. He has more than three hundred and fifty head of registered Hereford cattle and a large number of registered Poland China hogs, making a specialty of handling pure breeds. He is equally careful in his production of grain, using nothing but selected grains for seed in the production of wheat, corn, oats and barley. He has had large exhibits of grain at Madison Square Garden in New York, at Pittsburgh, Chicago, Fort Worth, Texas, at San Francisco, Omaha, Nebraska, and in various eastern cities. He regards southern Idaho and the Boise valley in particular as a potters' clay which can be worked into any form from the farmer's standpoint. He says: Its productiveness has almost no limit, and it is especially adapted to diversified farming." He believes that the soil can be developed until it will produce from seventy-five to one hundred bushels of wheat, from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty bushels of oats, and from seventy-five to one hundred bushels of corn or barley, in fact that amount is being produced in the last two grains. He has samples of wheat and oats raised on his place that have never been surpassed in hard and soft wheat and black and white oats. He conducts his farm on the most scientific principles and uses the most thoroughly up-to-date equipment.
In 1895 Mr. Young was married to Miss Helen D. Sackett, a native of New York and a daughter of Nathaniel Sackett, a Civil war veteran, who was wounded, captured and incarcerated in Andersonville prison. Mr. and Mrs. Young are the parents of five children: Louis A., twenty-two years of age, who has recently returned from the Mexican border; Charles E., aged twenty; Harold C, seventeen; Miles M., fifteen; and Dean A., thirteen. The children are all associated with their father in the work of the farm and are a credit to the family name.
The history of the Young family is one of which its members have every reason to be proud. L. L. Young had four brothers ? one being now deceased, and none of them ever used profane language or alcoholic liquors, and the same can be said of his cousins. His wife also has four brothers and four sisters, all of whom have led exemplary lives. Mr. and Mrs. Young are consistent members of the United Presbyterian church, and in politics he is a progressive democrat. In fact progressive is a word that has been exemplified in his career, whether in relation to his business affairs, his farming interests or the welfare of the community. He stands at all times for those things which are best and has ever held to high ideals.
Researched by Ted Smith
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