THE HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, OHIO
1883 - By Leggett, Conaway & Co.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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(1907 - MARION COUNTY, OHIO - HISTORY - LETTER - Y)
JACOB YAKE (Joeck) (Richland Township) was born October 8, 1852, in Richland Township, the son of George and Catharine (Wick) Yake. His grandfather Joeck came from Opfingen, Baden, Germany about 1833, entering eighty acres; near where our subject resides, and cleared nearly the whole farm. He died when aged eighty-five years, his only child having inherited the property, and increased it to 440 acres, all joining, and also purchased 150 acres in Morrow County, where he still resides. His family consists of three sons and one daughter. Recently he gave to each child eighty acres, obliging them to pay $1,600 each. Our subject having received a common school education, married March 18, 1875, Miss Caroline Groll, daughter of Frederick Groll. The names of their three children are Harvey J., Charles W. and Ella C. B. In 1878, Mr. Yake built a neat house, expending therefor $1,500. His farm is worth $75 per acre. His politics are Democratic.
JOHN JACOB YAKE(Joeck), (Marion Township) deceased. The subject of this sketch was born in Opfingen, Baden, January 13, 1793 the son of Andreas and Katharina (Kuchl) Joeck. He grew to manhood on a farm, and when of age he learned the stone-mason trade, which he followed through life. In 1833, he emigrated to the United States with his wife and two children, and settled in Richland Township, this county, where he purchased eighty acres of land. He cleared up most of this farm. He was one of the pioneer settlers of the township, and died on the homestead May 8, 1848, leaving a widow and four children, three children having died. They were as follows: Anna. born May 19, 1821, and died May 27, 1821; Anna (second), born March 15, 1823, and died July 12, 1823; Judith, born December 12, 1824, wife of Rev. A. Ernst; Catharine, born November 3, 1826, wife of August Kraner: John J., born November 15, 1831, and died April 2, 1833; Christina, born June 6, 1836, widow of Cyrus Seibert; and Daniel, born December 25, 1840. Mrs. Anna Yake was born in Opfingen, Baden, July 26, 1799, and was married to Mr. Yake March 5, 1820, and died at Marion, Ohio, August 8, 1873. Daniel Yake, the youngest child, and member of the firm of Yake & Uhler, merchants, was born on the homestead in Richland Township. When eight years old, he removed to Marion with his mother. and for two years and a half found employment with B. R. Durfee. In 1857, he began as a clerk for Lucas & Seffner, merchants, and occupied that position with this firm eleven years. He then became a member. of the firm of Reed & Yake, which partnership continued until 1876. immediately, he engaged in business with Mr. Uhler, under the present firm name. Mr. Yake has acquired a good success in the pursuits of mercantile business, first starting as a clerk and finally rising to the head of a large mercantile establishment. October 5, 1883, Mr. Yake, was married to Miss Rachel L. Bridge, daughter of Dr. W. W. Bridge, formerly of Marion. Mrs, Yake was born in Prospect, Ohio, August 16, 1846. To this union three children were born. viz., William W., Eva B. and Harry D. Mr. Yake owns a substantial brick residence on East Center Street and one-half of the store room which is now occupied by Yake & Uhler. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
MRS. MARY 0. YAUGER (Big Island Township) is the widow of Jacob A. Yauger, the daughter of Hampton Wood, and was born November 10, 1848. In 1871, she married Mr. Yauger, a soldier of the late war, of Company K, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was first a bugler, and then a member of an army band, serving three years, His death took place in 1880, the Free-Will Baptist Church losing a valuable worker. Mrs. Y., his widow, continues in faithfulness, ministering to her father's declining years. Her only child -Georgie-died soon after his father, aged about six years.
B. G. YOUNG, (Marion Township) (1907) attorney, was born in Washington County, Penn., February 2, 1850. His parents were Stewart and Aurilla Young, His father emigrated from Ireland and settled in Now York, where he married. He removed with his family to Washington County, Ohio, in 1852, and in 1854 to Ford County, Ill:; thence to Iroquois County, Ill., where he now resides. Mr. Young, the subject of this sketch, took a course in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and in 1874 took up the study of law, under the preceptorship of W. Z. Davis, of Marion, and remained with him until his admission to the bar in July 1876. He then opened a law office, and the following fall was elected Prosecuting Attorney. He served till 1880, when he was appointed to the Board of School Examiners, which position he still holds. At the Democratic convention of the county, held in August 1883, Mr. Young received the nomination for Representative to the Lower House of the Legislature. November 16, 1882, he was married to Miss Anna E. Irey, daughter of Joseph Irey. Mr. Young holds a membership in the IOOF, and with his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
GABRIEL M. YOUNG, (Prospect Township) harness and saddlery, Prospect Village, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, December 6, 1840, and is son of Reuben T. and Maria (Brouse) Young; the former born near Niagara Falls, Canada, and the latter in Wayne County, Ohio. G. M. Young learned his trade in the shop of his father, who was a harness maker Soon after he completed his trade he came to Prospect Village. He, was married, in 1863, to Maggie A. Landon, daughter of Rev. P. P. Landon, of Prospect, and in the spring of 1866 he opened a harness-shop in the village on his own ac count. He continued business bore until the fall of 1867, when he moved to Platte County, Neb., where he took up a homestead of eighty acres, situated six miles from the Union Pacific Railroad. and seventy-five miles west of Omaha. Their habitation, into which they immediately moved, was a dug-out," or a hole dug in the side of a bill, with a dirt floor, wall and roof; the roof was supported by poles. The family subsisted mostly upon game meat for the first three years. The first shot that Mr. Young fired at game in that region was at a six-prong buck, which he killed. From the door of his "dug-out " he shot and killed six wolves the first year, and many a night heard the wolves scratching at his door to make an entrance. In this habitation the family lived nine years, when he built a frame house. While living on this land Mr. Young still worked at his trade, doing the work in the dug-out. He bought his stock at North Bend, a town thirteen miles distant, on the Union Pacific Railroad. His only means of getting it home was by wheelbarrow power. When the work was finished, it was taken to town by him in the same way, The only mill where he could get flour or meal ground for the family was twenty-five miles away. The family lived on this land for twelve years. He sold the homestead in June 1879, and moved to Schuyler, Colfax Co., Neb., where he worked at his trade until September 1, when he bought the stock and harness shop of J. W. Monroe, of Schuyler, and continued in the business there for twenty-one months, when he sold out and returned to Prospect. Mr. and Mrs. Young have seven children, as follows: William P. (born in Shelby, Richland Co. Ohio), Mary Virginia (born in Prospect), Granville Penn, Simeon A., David P., Morrison J. and Mabel Sylvania; all except the two first were born in Nebraska; the last two are twins, the boy is of the brunette type and the girl a perfect blonde. R. T. Young (father of G. M.) and four sons were in the army, at one time, during the last war. William Perry was killed at the charge on Kenesaw Mountain June 27, 1864. At that time, Gabriel M. Young was under Gen. Grant; his boy, born the following month, July 20, 1864, he named after the fallen hero boy, the youngest of the four. The oldest Milton-was killed in Chattanooga Creek, January 12, 1865, leaving a wife and son.
ISAAC YOUNG, (Marion Township) a native of Perry County, Penn., was born March 22, 1823. His parents, Christian and Ann (Ulsh) Young, were both natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Lebanon and the latter of Perry County. Mr. Young was born January 12, 1792, and Mrs. Young November 18, 1789. They were married in Perry County, Penn., September 12, 1815, and in the spring of 1.838 removed to Ohio, and settled near Marion. In 1827, Mr. Young walked from Pennsylvania to Marion County, and purchased 240 acres in the western part of the county. He resided on his farm, near the county seat, till 1871, whence he moved to Crawford County, and in 1876 to Galion, where he died March 10, 1878. Mrs. Young died in Marion County October 12, 1848. Mr. Young was at one time Justice of the Peace in this county, and a man much esteemed. He was many years a traveling preacher in the German Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the father of seven children, of whom Isaac. the subject of this sketch, is the fifth. He was reared on the farm, and educated in the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware. He studied surveying, and in 1844 was elected Surveyor of Marion County, and re-elected in 1846. In 1851, he was chief of an engineer corps on. the Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad-now the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad-and in 1853 he went to Iowa. The following year (1854), he was employed as Chief Engineer on the Marion & Mississinawie Valley Railroad in Indiana. He returned to Marion in 1856, and in 1863 was elected to the office of County Treasurer, and reelected to the same position in 1865. He served as City Engineer a number of years, and in 1878 was elected County Surveyor and served one term. Mr. Young has also filled the offices of City C Clerk and Treasurer, Township Treasurer and Trustee. and Justice of the Peace, and was a member of the Board of School Examiners nine years. He has served the people of his county in many important offices, and in every public trust he has performed his duties with credit to himself. Mr. Young was married, March 31, 1852, to Miss Isabella Baker, daughter of John Baker. She died October 8, 1864, leaving two children --Sydney and Harry R. Mr. Young again married, May 11, 1865, this time Mrs. Lydia A. White, widow of George White, and a daughter of George Ulsh. Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Y. is also identified with the Masonic order and the IOOF.