James Steele Young and Arminta A. Sergeant

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Husband James Steele Young ^{1 2}

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           Born: 14 Jul 1843 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1919
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         Father: William Young (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sallie [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 2 Jun 1868 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1 3

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Wife Arminta A. Sergeant ³

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           Born: Sep 1849 3
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         Father: Thomas Sergeant (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Carrie Louise Young ³

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           Born: 1869
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           Died: 2 Jul 1959
         Buried:  - Emlenton Cemetery, Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Benjamin F. "Frank" Jamison (1850-1937) 3

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2 M Joseph S. Young ³

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         Spouse: Gertrude Agnew (      -      ) 3

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3 F Sallie E. Young ³

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           Born: Abt 1875
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         Spouse: Joseph P. Riddle (Abt 1867-      ) 3 5
           Marr: 28 Oct 1896 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 6

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4 M William Thomas Young ²

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           Born: 20 Mar 1877 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Jessie May Foller (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 24 Jun 1903 3

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5 M J. Halden Young ³

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         Spouse: Blanche Crawford (      -      ) 3

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6 F Nellie C. Young ³

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General Notes: Husband - James Steele Young

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He was born in Westmoreland County, PA, and was very young when the family removed to Armstrong County and located on a farm in the vicinity of Belknap. As a youth he went to Pittsburgh to learn the trade of blacksmith, which he followed after coming to the oil region during the height of the oil excitement, finding plenty of employment at toolmaking and similar work among the operators at Pithole, Miller Farm, and other points. In September, 1864, he removed to Franklin, where he had a shop of his own for several years, later opening a shop at Foster, Venango County, where he was largely engaged in toolmaking. In August, 1867, he located near by, at what was later known as Kennerdell (then Scrubgrass), and continued work at his trade there until he gave it up to look after his oil interests, selling out about December, 1873. He has since lived in the southeastern part of Scrubgrass Township, near Emlenton. Having bought a lease on the Russell farm from Dick Redfield, in 1873, he engaged in the production of oil, living on that property a number of years, and later bought the adjoining Calvert farm outright, having owned the oil production on that place for some years. Besides looking after the oil operations on both those places, he also carried on general farming and stock raising, developing his property agriculturally and establishing an up-to-date rural home with fine farm equipment and desirable surroundings. His home and barn were electric lighted, and all the other appointments about the place were in keeping with the best modern ideas of the time. In addition to the Russell and Calvert places Mr. Young owned the H. B. Middleton tract adjoining, having about 200 acres in all. He served his township as school director, supervisor, etc., and in business enterprise and good citizenship ranked with the most substantial citizens of the township. Politically he gave his support to the Democratic Party. He was one of the oldest Scottish Rite Masons in Pennsylvania, originally affiliated with the Consistory at Bloomsburg, but later holding membership in Pennsylvania Consistory, Valley of Pittsburgh. He also belonged to Allegheny Valley Lodge, No. 552, F. and A. M., of which he was a charter member and second master of same; to Chapter No. 211, R. A. M.; and to Franklin Commandery, No. 44, K. T. [CAB, 694]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 645.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 694.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 695.

4 Margaret Segui Kahle, Emlenton Cemetery Interments (Emlenton, PA: Self-published, 1977).

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 978.

6 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #3516.