John H. Young, farmer, was born in Simpson County, Ky., October 28, 1838, and is the second of eleven children born to Benjamin and Rebecca (Blewett) Young, the former of whom was a native of Simpson, and the latter of Warren County, Ky...John H. Young received a good common school and academic education in youth, and was employed on his father's farm and in his tobacco warehouse until he was twenty-six years old, with the exception of about eighteen months, when he lived with his grandmother in Missouri. After his return to Kentucky, and after his first marriage, he still continued in his father's tobacco warehouse as foreman for one year. He then settled on a partially improved farm in the north part of Simpson County, which he had bought some years before. He also owned at that time two other small farms in Warren County. In 1867 he sold this place, and bought the farm of 161 acres seven miles northwest of Franklin upon which he now resides and is extensively and successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. The farm is now well improved, and is in a high state of cultivation. He first married, December 26, 1865, Elizabeth Blewett, a native of Warren County, Kentucky. ..Mr. Young's last marriage was on January 18, 1883, w Lucy A. McFadin...
