BIO:  Charles YOUNG, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 72

CHARLES YOUNG, born in Hanover, March 3, 1830, is the fourth child and third son 
of a family of four sons and two daughters.  His parents, George and Susan 
(Sholl) Young, were natives of Hanover, and of German descent.  His father was a 
farmer, and died in 1867, in the seventieth year of his age.  Charles Young 
attended the public schools until sixteen years of age, assisted on his father’s 
farm until twenty, then went to Middletown, Ohio, where he carried on a hardware 
and iron store, and bought grain for eight years, and farmed four years more; 
then returned East, and remained until his father’s death, after which he went 
to Kansas City, Mo., remained in that section about seven months, when he again 
returned to Hanover, and soon afterward engaged in the lumber and coal business, 
which he still follows.  He was married in Middletown, Ohio, in December, 1852, 
to Miss Susan Zearing, a native of Warren County, Ohio, and of German descent.  
They have had four children:  Louisa Catherine, who died aged about eight 
months; William Z., who died at the age of twenty-two; Ida S. and Emily L.  The 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Young is one of 
the stewards of the Hanover congregation.  During Lee’s invasion of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Young served in the militia of his State.  He served the 
borough as school director one term of three years; a councilman two terms, and 
was elected chief burgess in February, 1884.  He is a Republican in politics, 
and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.