Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Boyd County Thomas R. Young, M.D., is a native of Jessamine County, Ky., was born January 8, 1833, and is a son of Archibald and Martha (Young) Young, who were born in Woodford County, and were descendants of English ancestors, who settled in Virginia in the Colonial days. The Doctor's maternal grandfather was John Young, who enlisted in the Revolutionary war from South Carolina. Archibald Young was a farmer and physician, and for forty-eight years practiced medicine in Jessamine County. Thomas R. Young entered Centre College, Danville, in 1851, and graduated in 1855; read medicine under his father, and entered Jefferson College, Philadelphia, in 1857. He graduated from this institution in 1859, and at once began practice in Jessamine County, but in 1868 removed to Ashland, Boyd County. During the interval, however, he served in the United State army as assistant surgeon under contract. December 13, 1876, he married Miss Sallie Bagby, daughter of Alexander Bagby, a lawyer of Ashland. To this union have been born five children, as follows: Thomas R., Archibald, William C., Orra Walter (deceased), and Jessie Wallace. The Doctor is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is still actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Young Bagby = Jessamine-KY Woodford-KY VA SC PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyd/young.tr.txt