When Edwin C Young was born about 1860, in Chickasaw Township, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States, his father, Levi J Young, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann Gillett, was 27. He married Ella E. Warner on 20 February 1881. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Draper Township, Lyman, South Dakota, United States in 1910 and Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States in 1930. He died on 5 December 1937, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States.