YOUNG-Maurice M. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Devoting his energies to agriculture and stock raising, Maurice M. Young enjoys distinctive prestige among the most enterprising farmers in the county of Fountain. He is one of the owners of valuable landed estates in Troy Township and in point of general improvements, especially in the matter of buildings, his place is not excelled by many in this section of the county. Mr. Young is one of those courageous men who started out in life with but a limited amount of capital. With a liberal endowment of self-reliance, a clear brain, a strong will and a determined purpose, he overcame the many discouraging circumstances which marked his beginning, removed the numerous obstacles from his pathway, gradually forged to the front and in the course of time found himself in possession of the desirable property which is his today. Mr. Young was born in McLean County, Illinois, December 25, 1868. He is the son of John William and Mary Jane (Moore) Young, farming people, natives of Logan County, Kentucky, and Perry County, Ohio, respectively. The father was unable to enlist as a regular soldier during the Civil war on account of being a cripple, but he was permitted to serve three months under his friend, Col. Jonathan Marion. He moved from his native state to Illinois in 1851 when the vast prairies there were sparsely settled, and he still owns the old homestead which was entered from the government by his father, having thus been a resident of that state for a period of sixty-one years, and he assisted in transforming the virgin soil into the fine farm that it is today. Politically, he is a loyal Republican. Four children were born to John William Young and wife, namely: Elmer Ewing, Aletha May, Maurice M. (the subject), and Ernest Adelbert. M. M. Young grew to manhood on the old home place in Illinois, where he helped with the various duties about the farm and as soon as he was old enough, and he received his education in the common school of his native community. Early in life he turned his attention to general farming and stock raising and this has continued to be his line of endeavor, and he has met with continued success all along the line. He has lived on his farm in Troy Township, Fountain County, Indiana since February of 1906.