"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a
brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western
Historical Pub. Co., 1902.  Page 299.  Baker County.

ISREAL N. YOUNG

     Those men who form the bone and sinew, as it were, of any thrifty community
are such as steadily and continuously meet the changing scenes of life with
their freight of responsibility or adversity of success with the same
uprightness, candor and unflinching determination to make the best of everything
and then take hold and work out that end; such a man is the one whose name
introduces this paragraph, and such has been his record from the time that he
was thrown on the world at an early date until the present time.
     Mr. Young was born in Ashmore, Illinois, on November 27, 1843, being the
son of William and Nancy (Nicols) Young, natives respectively of Tennessee and
Illinois.  In this latter state the parents resided until the time of their
death.  When very young our subject was forced to live with strangers on account
of the death of his parents, but when his eldest brother was married he made his
home with his family and in company with them came to northern Missouri in 1856.
Here they remained until 1863, when they toiled through the arduous journey from
that point to the Grande Ronde valley, in this state.  Here the elder brother
took a homestead and our subject engaged in freighting until 1867, when he
settled on a farm in the Grande Ronde valley, and four years later he went to
Eagle valley, where he is at the present time engaged in farming and stock
raising.  He has bought and sold considerable land in the valley, but he still
retains his old homestead.  In political matters he allies himself with the
Democratic party and is generally one of the delegates to the county
conventions, while in school matters he is active, and is useful in advancing
the interests of education in serving on the school board of his home district.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the I.O.O.F., Lodge 123, Eagle valley.
     The marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Adaline, daughter of Alex and Elizabeth
(Baker) Furgason, was solemnized in 1867, and they have become the parents of
the following children:  Valentine; Effie; Edith; and infant, that died in 1874;
Harley, who died in 1875; Lillian; Bertha; Lena.  Mrs. Young's parents were
natives of New York and agriculturists there, but in 1866 they came across the
plains to the valley where the daughter now lives, and in this place they lie
buried.  While en route to Oregon their train was attacked by Indians, who
secured all of the stock.  Search was made and the stock recovered, but in the
fight one of the Indians was killed, and when they came to examine his body they
found that he was a white renegade, and evidences pointed to the belief that
other members of the band were also white.  This occurred near the Black Hills.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2005 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.