ALBERT R. YOUNG, furniture manufacturer and dealer, Green Spring, is a native of Adams Township, born February 14, 1851; son of Charles and Catharine (Spangler) Young, who came from Germany in their youth, first settling in Maryland, and in 1845 came to this county, where they died not many years since. Our subject was reared on a farm, and, at the age of eighteen years, went to Dayton, Ohio, where he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, and returning to Green Spring the following year he continued working at the same trade for three years. In the spring of 1873 he built a fine hearse and began the undertaking business, which he followed for several years in connection with his trade. In 1878 he was employed by the village council to prepare plans and specifications for the erection of a town hall, the contract for building the same being given to him. He completed the building the following year, and in 1880 he rented a room in the same for the furniture store which he still carries on. In the same year he, in partnership with his brother, Daniel W., also built a fine four-story frame factory for manufacturing furniture; this factory was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1883; entailing a loss of $14,000. Mr. Young is a prominent citizen of Green Spring, gifted with a spirit of public enterprise, and, notwithstanding his being an ardent advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, has filled several of the village offices, the village being largely Republican. Mr. Young was married, September 4, 1873, to Miss Ida J. Miller, of Adams Township, where she was born January 4, 1856, and by her he has three children: Mary B., Charles J. and Bernard G.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p. 714
ADAMS TOWNSHIP