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LUTHER F. YOUNG.
Police Judge of Springfield, has already won an enviable reputation among
his professional brethren as a lawyer of pronounced ability, whose legal
attainments amply qualify him for the high position he has attained thus early
in his career at the bar. He is an
honor to this his native city, where he was born November 16, 1856.
Lewis YOUNG, his father, was born in Middletown, Frederick County, Md., a
son of Daniel YOUNG, who was a native of the same town, while his father, Conrad
YOUNG, was of German birth. He came
to America in the last century, and located in Middletown, Md., and the farm
that he then purchased is still in the family, owned and occupied by his
grandson, Jacob YOUNG. He passed
his remaining years in the home that he established there.
The grandfather of our subject was reared to agricultural pursuits on the
homestead where he was born, in1840 he visited Ohio, making the entire journey
both ways on horseback. In 1851 he
revisited this State, and bought a large farm of three hundred and twenty acres
in Springfield Township, of which two hundred acres were cleared. He continued his residence on his Maryland farm until 1864,
when he came to Clark County, and bought a home adjoining the farm that he had
previously purchased, and there his death occurred December 4, 1886, at the
venerable age of ninety-one years. The
maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth BOWLUS.
She was born in Middletown, Md., and died there in 1858.
She was the mother of thirteen children, ten of whom were reared to
maturity. The father of our subject
was bred to agricultural pursuits, and continued to live in his native town
until 1852, when he came to Springfield and settled on the farm that his father
had purchased here the year before. He
was actively engaged in its management until 1867, when he returned to Maryland
and bought a farm in the town of his birth, and made his home there until death
ended his mortal career September 7, 1882.
The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Elizabeth ARNOLD, and
she was born near Burkittsville, Frederick County, Md., her father, Peter
ARNOLD, being a native of the same county, and, it is thought, of English
descent. Mrs. YOUNG is still living on the home farm in Maryland.
With the exception of our subject, her children, Calvin, Albert, Alice
and Mary live with her.
The son, of whom we write, was the second
child of the family. As soon as
large enough he assisted in the farm work when not attending the district
school, where he gleaned his early education.
When but a boy in his teens, he went to work in a machine shop, and
desirous to obtain more learning, he carefully saved his earnings, and
eventually had enough money to pay his way through college and became a student
at Wittenberg, where he devoted himself assiduously to his studies, attaining
good rank in his classes, and was graduated in 1882.
His ambition pointed to the bar, and he at once entered upon the study of
law with J. K. MOWER, and in 1885 was admitted to practice in the courts of this
State. He opened at once in this
city, and entered upon his professional career, in which he has met with such
gratifying success. In 1887 he was
selected to fill the position of Police Judge, as it was seen that he had
qualities that peculiarly fitted him for the place, and so well did he
administer the affairs of the office, that he was re-elected to the same
position in 1889, and the fact that he ran ahead of the ticket shows his great
popularity. He presides with
dignity and tact over the proceedings of the court, and his decisions are marked
with even justice, with a thorough knowledge of the law as applied to the class
of criminals that are tried under his jurisdiction, and he is inflexible in the
discharge of his official duties, and it is conceded by all parties is
incorruptible. He is a man of
social prominence, and is a valued member of Clark Lodge, No. 101, A. F. &
A. M.; of Springfield Chapter, No. 48, R. A. M., and of Springfield Council, No.
17, R. & S. M.
Judge YOUNG was united in marriage with Miss Annie BAKER in 1885, and thus secured the sympathy and encouragement of a true wife. Mrs. YOUNG was born in Frederick County, Md., and is a daughter of Jacob and Rachel BAKER.