Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Boyd County

Dr. Matthew H. Young is a native of Jessamine County, Ky., was born October
5, 1836, and is a son of Dr. Archibald and Eliza (Farrar) Young, natives
respectively, of Woodford and Fayette Counties.  John Young, the father of
Dr. Archibald Young, was born in South Carolina, but was an early settler of
Kentucky.  He had been a soldier and was a participant in the battle of
King's Mountain.  Dr. Archibald was of Scotch-Irish descent on the paternal
side.  His mother was Scotch and named McCollough.  Eliza (Farrar) Young,
wife of Dr. Archibald Young and mother of Dr. Matthew H. Young, was of
English descent on the maternal side, and descended from the ancient house
of Mercer.  Dr. Archibald studied medicine under the celebrated Dr. Brown of
Lexington, Ky., and after a successful career in his profession died in
September, 1860, aged seventy years.  Dr. Matthew H. Young was reared on a
farm near Nicholasville, was educated at Bethel Academy, took his first
course of lectures on medicine at Transylvania University, and graduated
from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1859.  In 1861 he joined
the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, union service as surgeon, and in
July, 1864, was captured south of Atlanta on the Cooke raid, but was paroled
and subsequently rejoined his regiment.  At the close of the war in 1865 he
located in the practice of his profession at Ashland, Boyd County, Ky.,
studied homeopathy and now practices in that school.  March 29, 1966, he
married Mary Virginia, daughter of R.M. Biggs, (deceased), former president
of the Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad Company.  The Doctor was for a number
of years examiner of applicants for pensions, but resigned some time since
on account of ill-health; he is a stock-holder in the Kentucky Iron and Coal
Company, is a Freemason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic.

Young Farrar Brown Cooke Biggs McCollough Mercer 
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Jessamine-KY Woodford-KY Fayette-KY SC PA

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