Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1860; Farm Laborer
• Occupation: 1870; Carpenter
• Occupation: 1880

Notes:

(Research):Martin Young was born May 13, 1841, in Erie County, Ohio. He is one of ten children born to Ira and Sophia (Crippin) Young, both natives of New York. The elder Young was a fisherman on Lake Erie for thirty years. Maternally, Mr. Young is of English descent, and paternally from Holland. When Martin was about five years of age, They came to Porter County, settling on "Twenty-Mile" Prairie. A sister of our subject was about the first school teacher of that settlement, and Judge Field was among her pupils. When about twenty-one years of age, Mr. Young enlisted in the Seventy-third Indiana, serving nearly three years, and participating in the famous battles of Stone River, Nashville, and on Col. Straight's raid through Georgia. After he was discharged, returning to Chesterton, he engaged in the meat market business; he has built up the leading trade in this part of the county. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity. Mr . Young is a Republican, but favors the financial theories of the National party. Mr. Young has one of the finest brick residences in the county, richly furnished, and with the luxuries of piano, organ, etc. He was married in 1862 to Mary J. Lansing, a native of Porter County. She is well educated, having been a teacher. They have one adopted child -Arthur. Source: "Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana, Historical and Biographical ," Goodspeed and Blanchard, 1882 page 313, 314 Westchester Township Data entry volunteer: Suzan Schaeffing

Occupation:
Age at this event:19-20
Age at this event:19-20

Occupation:
Age at this event:29-30
Age at this event:29-30

Occupation:
Age at this event:39-40
Age at this event:39-40

Died:
Age:75

Martin married Mary Jane Lansing on 9 Aug 1862 in Porter Family Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky, United States. Mary (daughter of Robert Lansing and Sarah Ann Cox) was born in 1842 in Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]