FRANCES L YOUNG

ANNIS 
CARY 
MORRILL 
PATTERSON 
SMITH

Frances L. YOUNG is one of the most active and enterprizing business men of Kane co., of which he has been a resident for 55 years.  He is a native of Vermont, born in Strafford, Orange County, Dec. 1, 1828.  The YOUNGs are of Scotch ancestry, three brothers emigrating from that country to the United States in the early part of the 18th century, one of whom located in Rhode Island, from whom decended the family of which our subject is a member.  The paternal grandfather, Rev. Jacob YOUNG, was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1758.  He was a Universalist minister, the first of that denomination to locate in the town of Strafford.  On locating there he was given a ministers grant of land in the town.  He was a man of more than ordinary ability as a minister and theologian.  His son, Nathan YOUNG, was born in New Grantham, New Hampshire, in 1792.  He there grew to manhood, and married Hannah SMITH, a native of Vermont, and a daughter of Frederick SMITH, a large landholder, and of an old family of the Green Mountain state.  Nathan YOUNG followed the mercantile business for many years and was a very prominent man in Orange County, Vermont, serving his county as a member of the state legislature.  During the war of 1812, he entered the service and was orderly sageant of his company.  Later he was commissioned brigadier general of the state militia of Vermont, and served a number of years.
	
Nathan YOUNG left his native state in 1844 and came to Kane co., joining his son Peleg YOUNG, who located here some years previously.  The family first located in Blackberry township, on a claim which Peleg had purchased some time previous.  He at once commenced the improvement of the claim, and remained there some seven years.  In 1846, however, in company with our subject, he took up a claim of 160 acres in Kaneville township, and in 1849 built a residence and removed to the place where he spent a number of years.  Later he removed to Batavia, where he lived a retired life, his wife there dying in 1866.  After her death he returned to the farm, and there resided with our subject until called from this world in 1868.  Both were laid to rest in the Batavia cemetery.
	
The subject of this sketch was 16 yrs old when he came to Kane Co., and here he has since continued to reside.  In March, 1857, he returned to his old home in Strafford, Vermont, and there married Miss Betty PATTERSO, also a native of Strafford and a daughter of James and Polly PATTERSON, and a cousin of United States Senator MORRILL.  After marriage he returned with his young bride to Kane Co. and they began their domestic life on the farm in Kaneville, where Mr. YOUNG engaged in agricultural pursuits for 14 years, and then moved to the village of Kaneville, where Mrs. YOUNG died in Nov. 1871.  She was the mother of 3 children, one of whom died in infancy.  Jenny Mary grew to womanhood and married Charles L. CARY of Geneva, Ill.  She is now deceased.  Frank P. is married and is engaged in farming in Kaneville tsp.  After the death of his first wife,  Mr YOUNG married her sister, Mrs. Ann ANNIS, nee PATTERSON, the widow of Eli ANNIS, by whom she has one daughter, Lou, wife of Charles D. AMES of Kaneville tsp.
	
Politically, Mr. YOUNG was a Whig in early life, casting his first presidential ballot for Zachary Taylor.  Being a believer in the freedom of all men, and that no man had the right to hold his fellow men in bondage, he naturally affiliated with the Republican party on its organization, and has since continued to be an advocate of its principles.  He has taken quite an active part in local politics, and has held various positions of honor and trust.  He was first elected overseer of highways, and later township assessor, clerk of the township, and justice of the peace.  In 1879, he was elected county treasurer and was re elected at the close of his first term, and by change in the constitution he held over, serving seven consecutive years, the longest term of any man in Kane Co.  On retiring from that office he was again elected township clerk, and has served in that office for 27 years.  He also served 2 years as supervisor of Kaneville tsp, and was chairman of the county board, of Kane Co.
	
Mr. YOUNG has always been interested in all enterprises calculated to subserve the interest of his adopted county and state.  He was one of the originators of the County Line Creamer, which operates two creamerys, and was elected mamager of the same, serving as such up to the present time.  The creamery was incorporated Nov. 1890.  He is a stockholder in the Old Second National Bank of Aurora, and has seved as one of its directors for some 15 years.  Fraternally, he is a Mason, and was formerly quite active in the Kaneville lodge, continuing his active membership in it until it ceased to exist, after its lodgeroom was destroyed by fire.  For more than half a century his face has been a familiar one to the citizens of Kane Co.  He is wellknown throughout its length and breadth, and his friends are many in every part of the county.


The Biographical Record of Kane Co., Ill.
1898, Chicago
S.J.Clarke publishing
page 556 (also shows photo)

Transcribed by Cynthia Nelson who has no further information on the above
parties.

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