Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 777-778 [Christian]

     DR. JAMES A. YOUNG, a prominent and highly successful physician
of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was born in Bethany, Brooke county, West
Virginia, May 16, 1846, of Scotch-Irish descent.  His grandfather,
Martin Young, was a native of Kentucky, and was a farmer, miller and
distiller and a prominent man in his community and time.  His son,
Rev. James A. Young, was born in Logan county, Kentucky.  He was
educated for the ministry and graduated from Bethany College, West
Virginia, and died before reaching his prime, while serving a
pastorate of the Christian church in Tennessee.  He married Ellen
Douglas Kerr, a native of county Down, Ireland, whence she came to
America in youth.  Her father, Rev. W. Kerr, was a minister of the
Presbyterian church for about fifty years.  Rev. James A. Young and
wife had but one child, the subject of this biography, and the
latter's mother was later married to Dr. D. J. Gesh, by whom she had
two daughters.
     Dr. James A. Young was about five years old when he came to
Christian county, Kentucky.  He attended the Hopkinsville Academy
and later was a student in Bethany College and the Kentucky
University.  He gained his professional education in the Ohio
Medical College and in the Halmemann school at Philadelphia, being
graduated from the latter in 1867.  He practiced in Paducah for five
years, and for over thirty years has been the honored practitioner
to many a household of Hopkinsville.
     Dr. Young was married in 1870 to Miss Kate Long, a daughter of
G. B. Long, of the prominent and well known family of Longs.  She
was reared and educated in Hopkinsville and is a graduate of South
Kentucky College.  Mr. and Mrs. Young have three children living:
Ellen, assistant principal of the Corydon high school; James A.,
Jr., assistant cashier of the City Bank; Daniel, connected with the
railroad service.  The daughters Martha and Fanny are deceased.  Dr.
Young is a member of the leading homeopathic medical societies,
associations and institutes in this section of the country, and
keeps himself abreast of the progress of the times by means of these
agencies and of constant reading and study.  He is also assistant
professor of diseases of children in the Southwestern Homeopathic
College at Louisville.  He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias
and is a Mason.  He is a member of the Christian church, and a
stanch Republican.

Young Kerr Gesh Long
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Brooks-WV Logan-KY TN Ireland McCracken-KY

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