About James Addison Young
Lived 1815 – 1875 (aged 60). James Addison Young was an American politician.
James Addison Young (21 January 1815 – 9 March 1875) was an American politician.
Young was born on 21 January 1815 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, to a family of Scots-Irish descent. He was the seventh of eight siblings. Young worked on a farm as a child, and later learned to make saddles and harnesses from John A. Wolfley in Circleville, Ohio. Young moved through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, before settling in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in October 1849. Between 1850 and 1858, he ran a store.
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