Curtis Young (1802)

Born 5 May 1802 in Pennsylvania

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The Altoona Tribune, Thursday, May 17, 1888, page 8

At 4 o'clock yesterday morning the spirit of Mr. Curtis Young, one of Blair county's oldest and most respected citizens, took its flight and departed into the realms of the blessed. The good, old man has gone to his long rest. He had always enjoyed most excellent health and his last and fatal illness was of very short durationis. He suffered no pain and his death was the deepening of a peaceful slumber. As noted in yesterday's TRIBUNE he was stricken with paralysis on Wednesday night, which completely deprived him of his speech and the use of his limbs. He never recovered from the shock, and whilst apparently unconscious, he was unable to make to those about him, any intelligent communication, and gradually sank until the angel of death summoned him to his long home. Mr. Young was well and favorably know in this community, and in a greater portion of the county, for a great many years. He reared a large family all of whom are prosperous and highly respected and esteemed. He was quiet in his demeanor, upright in all his dealings and throughout his long life enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellow man. Born in the Kishacoquillas Valley on the 5th day of May 1801, he came when a child with his parents to what is now Blair county ever since.

His father settled on a wild tract of land, which afterwards became a fruitful and productive farm, near Allegheny's Furnace, in the early part of the century, and here deceased spent his boyhood days and received whatever of education the crude facilities of that day and the wilds of this rough country afforded. When a young man he expressed to his father a desire to learn the trade of a wagon maker, and in obedience to his desire he was placed, in the year 1821, under the care and tutorship of Mr. John Berry, who carried on this business extensively at Duncansville. In that day the Conestoga wagon and stage coach were in their prime, and the avocation chosen was perhaps one of the best of that period. After learning the trade he worked for a time at Pittsburgh, but returning to his native county he settled at Water Street, where he successfully carried on the business and where on the 24th day of March, 1825, he was happily married with the young lady of his choice, Miss Mary Musselman, Rev. M. Moser, of the Lutheran church, officiating.

He removed from Water Street to Allegheny Furnace and conducted a wagon-making establishment there and at Collinsville for a number of years. During this period he purchased a farm in that neighborhood, but disposed of it for one subsequently purchased in Scotch Valley. That farm, which was too poor to keep, is now occupied by the western portion of Altoona.

Mr. Young removed to Scotch Valley in 1843, where he carefully and profitably tilled the soil until 1874, when he came to Hollidaysburg, where he resided until about three years ago, when he discontinued house-keeping, owing to the growing infirmities of his wife, and made his home with his son, Mr. John Young, who resides on the McCahan farm west of this place.

His family by the first wife consisted of seven children, four daughters and three sons. Two of these, Elizabeth, who married Mr. William Bouslough, of Frankstown township, and Harriet, married to Mr. Samuel Hopkins, of Le Clair, Iowa, are dead. His daughter Amanda is the wife of Mr. John Brua, of Frankstown township, and Mary Ann is the wife of Mr. Samuel Hileman, of Le Clair, Iowa. The sons are John, of near this place; Martin L., of Pleasant Valley, and Philip, steward and superintendent of the almshouse.

The deceased, after losing his first wife, was married a second time, which occurred on the 20th of November, 1849, to Miss Jane Milliken, daughter of Edward Milliken, of Scotch Valley. She survives her husband, but by reason of softening of the brain with which she has suffered for several years, is a helpless invalid, and is at present unaware of her sad and serious bereavement. They were favored with two sons, one of whom -- Mr. Alexander Young -- is a resident of Altoona, and Mr. Sylvester Young, whose home is in Frankstown township. Mrs. Susanna Anderson, mother of William Y. and John Anderson, of Logan township, is the only surviving sister of the deceased.

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