Samuel Newton Young

Brief Life History of Samuel Newton

When Samuel Newton Young was born on 19 March 1829, in Montgomery, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Rankin Young, was 37 and his mother, Sarah McCann, was 35. He married Mary Jane La Follette on 1 February 1849. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Mound Township, Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 23 September 1913, in Altamont, Effingham, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Altamont, Effingham, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Newton Young
1829–1913
Harriet Yates
1829–1868
Marriage: 1 January 1854
Warren Young
1854–1944
Stephen Albert Douglas Young
1858–1938
Jane Jennie Young
1860–1941
Emma Young
1863–1937
Harriett Young
1868–1955

Sources (21)

  • Newton Young, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Newton Young, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Samuel Newton Young, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .

Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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