U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Young, U. G. (1865-1937) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 606 U. G. YOUNG is the fifth child of Joseph A. Young and Mary Virginia Young, and was born January 22, 1865, in Harrison County, W. Va. His father moved to Harrison County when fourteen years of age from Monroe County, W. Va. His mother was Mary Virginia Griffeth, and was born in Augusta County, Va., and came to Harrison County, W. Va., then Virginia, several years before the war. U. G. Young is of Scotch-Irish descent on both sides of his family. His grandmother on his mother's side was a Wallace, and traces her ancestry back to Sir William Wallace of Scotland. When four years of age the father of U. G. Young left the farm and moved to Barbour County and engaged in the milling business at a village known as Peel Tree. W. Va., where the father still lives. The subject of this sketch obtained his education in the common schools, then taught several years and attended the National Normal University at Lebonon, O., graduating in the law department of that school in 1888: passed his examination in this State before Judges W. T. Ice, of Philippi, Henry Brannon, now of the Supreme Court, and Judge R. F. Fleming, and was licensed to practice law and admitted to the bar in October of 1888, while Judge Henry Brannon was still upon the Circuit Court bench. U. G. Young located in Buckhannon, Upshur County. W. Va., for the practice of his profession in the fall of 1888, and has been engaged actively as such from that date until the present time. He was married on the 11th day of July 1893, to Lillian Cecelia Pifer, of Buckhannon. He has three children, two daughters, Mary Eugenia, born August 7, 1894: Marjory Cecelia, born August 25, 1900, and one son, Ulysses Grant, Jr., born July 1, 1902. He is actively identified with the M. E. Church, a teacher in the Sunday school, etc. He is one of the original stockholders of the Traders' National Bank, organized in 1892, is one of its directors and vice president. He is also a stockholder in the Peoples Bank of West Virginia, of Buckhannon; he is also a stockholder in the Citizens Trust and Guaranty Company of Parkersburg. W. Va., also the Citizens National Bank of Redlands, California, and a member of other corporations. He formed a partnership for the practice of law with J. C. McWhorter in May, 1897, which continued until Judge McWhorter was elected to the Circuit Court bench in 1904. He was elected to the State Senate in the fall of 1894 and served in the sessions of the State Senate for the years 1895 and 1897. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (Wife of U. G. Grant) From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #8143 FULL-NAME: Lillie Pifer Young BIRTH-DATE: March 12, 1869 BIRTH-PLACE: Upshur Co., W.Va. DEATH-DATE: June 1, 1953 (at age 84y-2m-20d) DEATH-PLACE: St. Joseph Hospital, Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Jacob B. Pifer MOTHER: Cecelia Cozad CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cerebral Thrombosis / Generalized Arteriosclerosis INFORMANT: U. G. Young, Jr. BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery There are tombstones in Heavner Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV Ulysses Grant Young (1865-1937) Lillie Young (1869-1953) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (son of U. G. Young, Sr. and Lillie Pifer) From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #'59-012818 FULL-NAME: Uylsses Grant Young BIRTH-DATE: July 1, 1902 BIRTH-PLACE: Buckhannon, West Va. DEATH-DATE: September 6, 1959 (at age 57y-2m-6d) DEATH-PLACE: Leonard Memorial Hosp., Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Attorney at Law FATHER: Ulysses Grant Young MOTHER: Lillie Pifer MILITARY-SERVICE: WWII CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Coronary Occlusion INFORMANT: Mrs. U. G. Young (of Buckhannon) BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery, Buckhanon, West Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------