20th Century History of New Castle and
Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens

JOHN F. YOUNG

John F. Young[p. 859] is a prosperous farmer and representative citizen of Wayne Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He was born on the farm on which he now lives, and is a son of Jacob and Christina (Geiger) Young, the Geigers and Youngs being among the most prominent old families of the county.

Jacob Young was born in Germany and was about thirteen years of age when brought by his parents to this country, they settling in what was then Beaver County. The grandfather built the house and barn on the farm on which John F. now lives, and his son, Jacob Young, resided on the place for a period of thirty-five years. He died in 1897, at the age of fifty-eight years, and his wife died in 1896. She was in maiden life Christina Geiger, a daughter of John F. and Fredericka Geiger, who came from Wurttemburg, Germany, at an early date. Mr. Geiger died in 1895, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his widow in February, 1908, at the advanced age of ninety-three year's. They had one child, Christina (Young). Jacob Young's wife had two children, Anna, who married Henry Lenhardt, and died in 1890, and John F. Jacob Young was a Democrat in politics, and in religious attachment was a Lutheran.

John F. Young was reared and educated in his native county, and early in life turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He has a valuable farm of 100 acres, all under a high state of cultivation and well improved. In early years he engaged in gardening on an extensive scale, but at the present time devotes his attention to general farming. He is a man of enterprise and public spirit, and has the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens to a marked degree.

Mr. Young was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Lenhardt, a daughter of Charles Lenhardt, who also was a well known resident of Lawrence County. A daughter, Lillian, was born to bless this union. Religiously the family belongs to the Mount Hope Lutheran Church. In political views, he is a Democrat, but, nevertheless, reserves the right to vote for the man he deems best fitted for the office at issue.


20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908

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