Young, Lawrence

Born: 1793-XX-XX Virginia

Died: 1873-XX-XX Kentucky

Flourished: Jefferson County, Kentucky

Lawrence Young was a farmer, mill owner, teacher, horticulturalist, and editor. Young moved with his father to Jefferson County, Kentucky, settling on a large tract of land. He received his collegiate education at Transylvania University, and upon completing his course, he pursued a career in law. Failing as an attorney, he turned to teaching and farming. He married Eliza Johnston White in 1823 and the couple had at least four children: Richard Young, Benjamin L. Young, Virginia Young Chamberlin, and William W. Young. Young had a greenhouse and cultivated flowers and varieties of fruit and nut trees. In 1850, Young owned real property valued at $57,000 and thirty-nine enslaved persons. In 1860, he owned real property valued at $70,000, had a personal estate of $29,000, and owned thirty-three enslaved persons. In 1870, Young owned $56,000 in real estate and had a personal estate of $3,000. He also owned at least 400 acres of land in Champaign County, Illinois, which he directed to be sold in his will to cover his debts. Young edited the Southern Agriculturalist and the Western Ruralist in the years before his death.

History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (Cleveland: L. A. Williams, 1882), 2:37; Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, 6 January 1873, Jefferson County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015); Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, 27 March 1823, Jefferson County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 1997); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Jefferson County, KY, 193; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Jefferson County, KY, 909; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Jefferson County, KY, 36; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Jefferson County, KY, 134; U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), Jefferson County, KY, 15; D. L. Adair, A New System of Bee-Keeping (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1867), 76.