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Dr. Isaac B. YOUNG was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, March 22, 1828.
Son of John and Lydia (BOOTH) YOUNG, grandson of Baltzar and Elizabeth
(BOOSE) YOUNG, and great-grandson of Fred YOUNG, who came to America in
1760, and made a settlement in Pennsylvania, near the Maryland line. The
grandfather and great-grandfather were weavers by trade. John Young was
reared in Columbiana County, Ohio, was here married, and here reared his
family. His son, Dr. Isaac B. Young, grew to manhood in Ohio, and obtained
a fair schooling. At the age of twenty-one he taught school, and thus
obtained means for continuing and completing a good medical education,
graduating from the Cleveland Medical College. During the war he left a
good practice at Alliance and went out as second lieutenant of Company K,
Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which he helped organize from
Alliance. He was soon after promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, then
captain, and afterward took charge of a brigade. In 1863 he asked to be
transferred to the medical department, and was appointed by Secretary
Stanton as assistant-surgeon and soon after as surgeon of the
Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which afterward served eighteen
months and twenty-one days as a veteran regiment. After the war Dr. Young
returned home, and in 1871, on account of ill health, went to Little Rock,
Ark., where he practiced his profession for about three years. He then
moved to Lawrence County, Mo., where he married Miss Leona I. WHITE,
daughter of Judge J. M. WHITE. Four children have been born to this union:
Ernest, John, Fred and Vinton. Dr. Young has held membership in the
Baptist Church since his nineteenth year, and is a charter member of J. M.
Baird Post, 322, G. A. R. and is its present commander. He has held
official relation in it since its organization.
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