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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
physician then practicing at Aurora. Through the influence of Dr. Hard he was induced to undertake the study of medicine, leaving home with a small stock of clothing against the protest of his parents. Aided by Dr. Hard, who furnished him employment enabling him to pay his board, he finally graduated at the Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, establishing himself in his profession at Little Rock, Kendall County, where he remained a short time. Then removing to Aurora, he succeeded there to the practice of his preceptor who had recently died, and this continued to be his home during the rest of his life, except while serving in the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, in which he was commissioned as Surgeon in the fall of 1861. The severe strain to which he was subjected during the first few months of the war made such inroads upon his health that, after the battle of Pea Ridge in March, 1862, he was compelled to tender his resignation and return to Aurora, where he resumed his home practice. In this position he became widely known throughout Northern Illinois, both by his success as a practical physician and his contributions to medical journals. He was regarded as a leading surgeon and fine type of the family physician, and his death, which occurred Sept. 8, 1874, brought to a large proportion of the people of Aurora a deep sense of personal bereavement. Dr. Young was married June 20, 1852, at Aurora, Ill., to Miss Ellen Barr, who was born at North East, Penn., Sept. 18, 1834, the daughter of Dr. Alonzo S. and Julia A. (Griffin) Barr. Dr. Barr was a physician at Plainfield, Ill., where he practiced many years, and where he finally died. A remarkable co-incidence in the history of Dr. Young is traced to the fact that, while the marriage of himself and wife in 1852 was the first to be celebrated in the old First Methodist church at Aurora, his funeral was the first to take place in the new church edifice of the same organization, a little more than twenty-two years later. Dr. Young and wife had one daughter, now Mrs. Ricker, wife of Dr. A. J. Ricker, of Aurora. Mrs. Young also survives in the city which has been her residence for more than fifty years. Dr. Young's prominence in public affairs is indicated by the fact that he served three terms as Mayor of the City of Aurora, for several years was a member of the Board of Aldermen of that city, and also served at different times on the Board of Supervisors of Kane County. He was President at the date .of his death of the Aurora School Board, and the "Young School" of that city was named in his honor. He was also prominently identified with various medical organizations, including the Illinois Medical Society, in which he held the office of President, and the American Medical Association.
HENRY M. YOUNG, mechanical engineer, St. Charles, Ill., born in Lowell, Mass., June 27, 1848; came to Elgin, Ill., March 11, 1867; was employed in engineering work in Ohio and Minneapolis, Minn.; entered the United States Engineering Corps in 1878, with which he remained two years; came to St. Charles in 1893, and in 1900 became manager of the Garden City Sand Company; married May 22, 1872 Rose E. White of St. Charles, and they have one son, Richard N.
FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Manager of Kaneville and County Line Creamery, Kaneville, Kane County, was born in Strafford, Orange County, Vt., Dec. 1, 1828, came with his parents to Kane County, Ill., in 1843, and lived with his parents in the Township of Blackberry seven years.
