Yount - Dan - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

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YOUNT, Dan son of Andrew and Eva Young; was b. in Warren Co, Ohio Nov 3, 1807 and in 1827 he settled with his parents in Tippecanoe Co, In. He married, near Lafayette, Ind Miss Sarah PRICE in 1830; in 1840, he had opportunity to acquire the mill site now known as Yount's Woolen Factory. A small branch of water, but permanent and strong by a considerable fall in its course, joins the Sugar Creek At Yountsville. Above its mouth, about half a mile Snyder already had a mill and now near its confidence Mr. Yount put up his woolen mills. Slowly he went with the stream of time, always taking it at its high tide, using it closely, managing as no educated business man could have done better and finally when the demand for his superior goods reached a maximum in the war times, then rushing along his business with all the pressure of modern times and again suiting it carefully down when those exciting years had passed again and business reached its normal channel. In those times he enlarged the works, built a dam that enabled him to use a large proportion of the water power of Sugar Creek; his goods run to the amount of $170,000 in one year of the war, but the aver is about $70,000 per year. Thus, we see a man of great natural abilities, who has the energy to bend his will and mind only to his business, always succeed. Mr. Yount associated with him in his business some years ago his son, Andrew and his son-in-law, WC Whithead. The children of Dan Yount are: Rhoda, now Mrs. Townsley; Mary, now Mrs. Troutman; Andrew; John (killed by a railroad accident in 1876) and Anna, now Mrs. Whithead. Up to the misfortune in which Mr. John Young lost his life, the family had not had a death for 45 years.

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Source: H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago: HH Hill, 1881) p 588

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Dan YOUNT, manufacturer of woolen goods, Yountsville, son of Andrew and Eve (SINK) Yount, was b. in Montgomery Co, Ohio, Nov 3, 1807, his ancestry coming from Germany about 1740, and settling in N C. At 11 years of age the subject of this sketch began work in a woolen mill, then owned by his father, near Dayton, Ohio. In 1827 he came to Tippecanoe Co, settling about 5 miles So. of Lafayette. In 1835 he removed to Attica, Indiana, where, in company with an elder brother, he established a woolen factory, where he continued until 1839, when he purchased a farm in Ft. Co, where he lived for about one year. Early in 1840 he removed to what is now Yountsville, erecting, in company with his brother, Adam, a small carding-mill which has since grown to its present proportions. April 30, 1830, Mr. Yount was married to Sarah Price (of Welsh descent), born in Maryland 1811. She died greatly respected June 19, 1878. They had 5 children: Rhoda (Townsby) born Nov 1832; Mary (Troutman) born June 1836; Andrew, born Jan 11, 1838; John (deceased) born Jan 1840; Annie (Whithead) born April 14, 1845. "Uncle Dan," as he is familiarly known, was brought up in the faith of the Society was brought up in the faith of the Society of Friends, but in July 1842, there being no such organization here, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, a pillar of which he has since been. He has led a very busy and useful life, having been a class leader and trustee of his Church since his connection with it, and is still found in the front rank in all worthy objects, and commands the highest esteem of all who know him. His politics are republican, and though public spirited he has held no office of the civil government, preferring rather to be a "door keeper" than to "dwell in the tents."