Charles Herman Young and Una May Brown
Husband Charles Herman Young 1 2 3
Born: 16 Jan 1876 - Little Beaver Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1 2 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William T. Young (1848-1925) 1 2 4 Mother: Paulina A. Russell (1851- ) 2 3 5
Marriage: 7 Oct 1909 2 6
Wife Una May Brown 2 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
1 F Margaret T. Young 6
AKA: Margaret L. Young 2 Born: 8 Sep 1910 6 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 F Amy Jean Young 2 6
Born: 12 Apr 1912 6 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M William Taylor Young 7
Born: 20 Mar 1914 7 Christened: Died: 15 Aug 1914 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Dorothy May Young 2 7
Born: 7 Dec 1915 7 Christened: Died: Buried:
5 M William E. Young 7
Born: 26 Oct 1921 7 Christened: Died: Buried:
6 F Nellie Elizabeth Young 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Charles Herman Young
He attended different institutions of learning after attending the public school. He taught several terms in the Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, public schools, and decided to enter the profession of law.
He served in company B of the 16th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers in the Spanish-American war, and also served a month in World War I in the artillery officers' training camp at Louisville, Kentucky.
He was district attorney of Lawrence County from 1907 to 1910. He was counsel for the Workmen's Compensation board beginning in April, 1916. He was also a member of the New Castle school board and served several terms as chairman of the Lawrence County Republican central committee. He was alternate delegate to the national convention in Cleveland in 1924, and later was chairman of the Republican city committee. He resided in New Castle, where he had an extensive law practice in addition to his public duties.
He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the country schools, after which he taught school for four years. Later he entered the Slippery Rock Normal School, where he was graduated in the law department, in October, 1897, having prepared under Judge Martin, at New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in the same year, and has been in continuous practice at New Castle, with the exception of the period during which he served as a soldier in the Spanish-American War. He enlisted July 5, 1898, and served with the rank of sergeant. His political affiliation was with the Republican party, and on the Republican ticket he was elected prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, in November, 1906. During the first year of his incumbency of the office of prosecuting attorney there was one work he accomplished which is particularly worthy of mention. The Italian league or organization known as the "Black Hand" was very strong in the Italian colony at Hillsville and other localities in the county, and they had become a menace to the public peace. Through the vigorous prosecution conducted by Mr. Young, thirty-one of these miscreants were convicted, many of them doing sentences in prison. The organization was effectually broken up, and Mr. Young's connection with this work is well worthy its place in history.
In fraternal life Mr. Young was identified with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
He began his education in the public schools of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. After a year of study at the Slippery Rock State Normal School, he entered the Northern Ohio University, and did about two years' work in the arts course and then pursued his law course in the same university, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During the time he was getting his higher education he taught school several terms. On leaving the university Mr. Young located at New Castle, in his native county, and began the study of law in the office of Judge J. Norman Martin. In the same year he was admitted to the Ohio State bar, and he was admitted in Lawrence County in 1899. From that time he conducted a general practice in New Castle and vicinity, with gratifying success. In December, 1915, he was appointed Referee of the Workmen's Compensation Board of Pennsylvania. After serving a few months in that capacity, he was made attorney for the board, and continued to fill that post for over a decade.
In 1898, he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War, and was made sergeant of Company B, Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served in Porto Rico until his discharge, December 28th, of the same year. At the entrance of the United States in the World War, he became a member of the Lawrence County Council of National Defense, served on the State Council of National Defense, and shortly before the Armistice was stationed in the Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor in the artillery branch.
Mr. Young's political associations were with the Republican Party, and he was called upon to serve the public in various capacities. From 1900 to 1903 he was secretary of the Republican County Committee, and from 1910 to 1914 was chairman of the committee; he was also a member of the School Board of New Castle. From 1907 to 1910 he was district attorney for Lawrence County. During his term as district attorney he prosecuted members of what was known as the Black Hand Society, which attracted wide attention. Three of the members were hanged and in all thirty-three were convicted, most of whom served terms in the penitentiary. This resulted in clearing the county of that organization; this was, perhaps, the most interesting series of criminal cases ever tried in western Pennsylvania.
An active member of the Christian Church, he was an elder in that body and chairman of its Board of Directors.
He held membership in many fraternal and social organizations, among which should be mentioned: Masonic Club; Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of Veterans of the Civil War; American Legion; Spanish-American War Veterans; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Mahoning Lodge, No. 243, Free and Accepted Masons; New Castle Consistory Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Syria Temple; Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh; and attendant bodies in the line of succession.
General Notes: Wife - Una May Brown
from Lawrence Co, PA
1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 797.
2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 351.
3 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 25.
4 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 9.
5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 689, 797.
6 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 50.
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Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 51.
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