Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

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.z geiieral stlore at, West Jersey, \vl~crc 11;s family settled in 1554. For
t;j7ent,v ye;irs he ci~rrietl on large trade here and w:m succcssfl~l in o~~ery
enterlwise he touclletl. Tn I S.55 lle \iT:ls il.ppointed postmnstel;~rl~icl~ office
he l~eltl until 1872. For twelve years he was justice of the peace ant1
scl~ool tre;tsurer here, also served as :tssessor, ant! a, member of the
Republican Oentrni Conl~nit tee of St~li county. IIc owns two hrlntlred
ncj8es on section 16, all well iml)rovetl i111tl high1 y cul tivi~tecl. Since
1572 11e 11:ts alxkncloned ~rlni~y business cillrs, now devoting llimself to
the care of his lnndeil property. Mrs. lFoangr, an old membei. of the
31. E. cl~urclr, (lied here in 1883, aged fifty-tour years. In IS55 he
1n;lrlaietl Mrs. Martha A. (I-Iei~ton) Swank, who is zlso a nlernl~er of the
M. E. cllnrcl~. Mr. Young's life hd.s been eminently active snci successf
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&. T70uny, born in Warren county, N. ,J., in 1820, is a son of'
Silns and Sarah young, natives otb that state. IIis parents died there.
In 1852 Mr. J. &. 170nng visited T