The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 371

JAMES W. YOUNG.

James W. Young, whose success as an orchardist has been most gratifying, was
born at Shippensburg, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1827, and is
therefore now in the ninety-second year of his age. He is a son of Isaiah and
Susan (Ambrose) Young, who removed westward to Michigan in 1848. The parents
were natives of Ireland but came to the new world when young people and were
married in the state of New York. Subsequently they established their home in
Pennsylvania and, as stated, became residents of Michigan in 1848. The father
was a cooper by trade and both he and his wife died in Michigan.

James W. Young acquired a public school education in Pennsylvania and in young
manhood followed farming and also worked at the cooper's trade in Michigan,
learning the business under his father's direction. He continued to reside in
Michigan until 1881, when he went to Howell county, Missouri, where he made his
home until 1889. In that year he arrived in Yakima county and rented land near
the city of Yakima, upon which he resided until 1893, when he purchased forty
acres two and a half miles south of Yakima and has since planted thirty acres of
this to fruit, making a specialty of apples and pears. He has erected the house
upon the place and has continuously occupied the farm from that date to the
present. He is a member of the Yakima County Horticultural Union and has ever
been deeply interested in all that has to do with the propagation of fruit in
this section of the state. His methods of fanning have been progressive and
resultant, bringing him very substantial crops that have been the basis of a
satisfying annual income.

On the 1st of October, 1867, Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss Harriett
Goodnow, who passed away in September, 1915. She was born in New York city and
was a daughter of Lewis and Libbey Goodnow. The children of that marriage were:
Edward, who is engaged in merchandising at Sunnyside; Bessie, who married
Spencer Jacobs, and both have passed away, leaving two children; Caroline, who
resides with her father; Mary, the wife of Allen Dow, of Yakima, by whom she has
four children; Ethel, who married Archie McPhee, of Naches, and has three
children; Harvey, a resident of Yakima, who is married and has two children; and
Jennie, the wife of Andrew Fisk, of Toppenish, Washington, by whom she has one
child.

Mr. Young is a member of the Presbyterian church, to which his wife also
belonged, and his political endorsement has always been given to the men and
measures of the democratic party. He is interested in all organized efforts for
the benefit and upbuilding of the community, while his own business career
indicates that he has been actuated by a spirit of progress and advancement in
all that he has undertaken.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.