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YOUNG, Lafayette, 1848-1926 Senate Years of Service: 1910-1911 Party: Republican
YOUNG, Lafayette, a Senator from Iowa; born near Eddyville, Monroe County, Iowa, May 10, 1848; attended country schools and night school in St. Louis, where he learned the printing trade; founded and published the Atlantic (Iowa) Telegraph 1871-1890; member, State senate 1874-1880, 1886-1888; established the Des Moines Capital in 1890 and was editor until his death; during the Spanish-American War was in Cuba as a war correspondent in 1898; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1908; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy .caused by the death of Jonathan P. Dolliver and served from November 12, 1910, to April 11, 1911, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill this vacancy; war correspondent for four months in Europe in 1915; Chautauqua lecturer in 1915; chainnan of the State council for defense for Iowa during the First World War; was made a knight of the Order of Leopold II of Belgium in recognition of his work in raising funds in Iowa for the children of Belgium; died in Des Moines, Iowa, November 15, 1926; intennent in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Dear Sir: It has been the custom of each House of the General Assembly to cause to be prepared a,nti. published a table showin~ certain statistics in conneo ~ion with the nam,es of the 1nembers th'l{eof1, To make this historical data CORRECT is the object offurnishing youthis blank, and it iIJ' hoped that you will aid me in n1,a7cing it as complete as possible ... b;;;m,(,:r!ing a full return of the items below to this office as ea,rly as practicable. ~S\ GIVE FIRST NA14E IN FULL. v' .. J Name .. : ~~~""1.;t.t0'...... ~1D-~~4- ...... / / / )' V (G P. O. .. .><1f:-e.:u:.t:c...... ~ / t~ ~ ~ _ _ ~A . /' '. . , I'l County .....~ ...... "J1 'A)~ "" 0 c;upatwn _.... .lI2. ~~ ...... ----......
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Virginia. J ames Ireland was residi ng with him tice of the Peace, but would not qualify. Mr. when he was taken to the Culpeper Court· Adams' life has been a busy one indeed from house and there r ~ceived such atrocious pun the early days on the bleak prairies, and his ishment for preaching ' the gospel. Wharton associations with conditions and affairs make Adams was a member of the Baptist ChUTCh, him one of the eligible and desirable men to and his death occurred in Oldham county. deserve recognition at the hands of the citizens H is wife preceded him to the grave by many of Lucas county. During his busy life he has years. Evan Adams, the father of OU f sub been employed as a carpenter and a shoe ject, was born in Culpeper county, and served maker, and had made coffins as early as 184 4. in the war of the Revolution, having been He still conducts an undertaking establish· within. a half day's walk of Cornwallis at the ment. closing siege of that struggle. He was an old Mt. Ada~ns was united in marriage with time Whig, and was converted to the Baptist Miss Eliza Threlkeld. born in Kentucky, Octo faith by the Rev. Ireland. He observed those ber 9, 1814, a dallghtef'of Moses and Eliza doctrines throughout his life, and passed away beth (Weekly) Threlkeld. She buried her in Bartholomew county, Indiana, November mother in what is known as the Rag Town 19, 1841, haviog been laid to rest in the pretty cemetery, the latter having attained her ninety· little cemetery known as the Ebenezer church third year. Mrs. Adams' father died in Jack yard, his wife being in terred by his side. Mr. son county, Indiana. many years ago. Mrs. Adams was twice married and was the father Adams has celebrated her eig-hty-first birthday. of twenty children, eight by his fi rst wife and She is a sweet-tempered Christian lady, has twelve by the second. known little sickness, and has been a great Joel Adams, the eleventh of twelve chi I· helpmate to her honored husband. She has dren, six sons and six daughters, remained been somewhat afflicted with rheumatism, and under the parental roof until his father's death, has sustained the loss of the use of her right aft er which the estate was divided. Leaving limb. his old . homestead in 1843, he purchased a farm of sixty acres in t he same neighborhood. On coming to Lucas county, Iowa, Mr. Adams ON. LAFAYETTE YOUNG, pub secured a tract of land about five miles south lisher and editor of t he Daily Iowa of Chariton, his_farm consisting of eighty acres Capital, Des Moines, Iowa, is a gen· of prairie and the same number of acres of B tie man well kQ,.Own all over the State timber. He erected a log cabin eighteen feet and is eminently deserving of bio~Tap hica l square, making a pl ace for their beds above, honors in this work. and the one room below served as a kitchen, He was born in Monroe county, Iowa, May dining· room and parlor. H ere Mr. Adams 10, 1848, and the first eleven years of his life entertained the early travelers seeking homes were spent on a farm and in attendance at the in Iowa, and, amid joys a nd sorrows, trials country schools. In 1859 he removed with his and pleasures, the esteemed settler spent about parents to Albia, the county seat. and in Janu· eight years. ary of the following year be became an ap· In his political relations, Mr. Adams has prentice to the trade of printer in an office been a life· long Republican, and his first owned by his brother. F rom that time until presidential vote was cast for William Henry the present, a period of thirty-five years, he Harrison. Although never seeking political has been engaged in some work connected with preferment, he has been called upon to serve printing. In 1866 he carne to Des Moines and as Constable two years, as Supervisor both in entered the employ of MilJs & Company. a job this. State and Indiana, and was elected ]us- printing firm. In 1868-9 he worked at his
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. trade in St. Louis. During the year 1870 he ) Mr. Young was married in 1870 to j oseph was city editor of the Iowa State Register. I n ine Bolt on, of Jones county, Iowa, and they J anuary, 18J1, he removed to the new town of have three children, a d au~hte r and two sons, Atlantic, Cass county, which had shortly before the youngest being seventeen years of age been selected as the county s!at, and there he (1895.) established a wee kly paper called the Tele graph, which he edited for nearly twenty years. During all this time he took an active part in ILLIAM HENRY FLEMING, asso political matters, being an enthusiastic su p ciate editor of the Iowa Daily Cap portcr of the Re publican party and frequently (({ ital, Des Moines, Iowa, is a gentle making political speeches. In 1873. when only man who has had a broad experience t wenty-five years of age, he was chosen State in' the journalistic field. Senator, for a term of four years, for the dis H e wa s born in New York city, in the year trict composed of the counties of Cass, Ada ir, 1833, and is a son of W illiam a nd Margaret Adams and Union. H e was the first native of (Chambe rs) Flemin~ . both natives of Ireland, the State ever elected to the office of State the father born in Waterford and the mother Senator. In 18n he was re-elected, repre in county Fermanagh. F our sons and one senting Cass, Madison and Adair counties. At daughter composed thei r family, and of this the e nd of this term he was not a candidate number two are now living: William H. and for re-election, but in 1885 he was again David D., t he latter a resident of W est Des brought out as a candidate for Senator, this Moines. William F leming. the father of our time to represent the district composed of Cass, subject, was by occupation a printer. H e came Adair and Ad ams counties, and was elected. to America about 18 15 and settled in New York ) In 1889 he was unanimously renominated in city, wh ere he was married and where he passed the district composed of Cass and Shelby the rest of his life. He died there j~ly 26, counties, but was defeated at t he polls, the 1845, at the age of about forty-three years. State going Democratic fo r the first time in His wife survi .... ed him till 1hy 26, 1874, when forty years. In Marc h, 1890, Mr. Young re she died in Des Moines. She was an. Episco· moved to Des Moines and purchased the Daily patian. Grandfather Fleming was a Scotch Iowa Capital, then a struggli ng, unsuccessful man, was a sea captain for many years, lived newspaper, whi ~ h has since been made a pro to an advanced age and died in New York city. nounced success and has grown to be one of He and his wife were the parents of three sonS the great newspapers of the State. In 1893, and two daughters. Of the maternal grand · in compliance with the earnest solicitation of father of our subject, John Chambers, be it his many fr ienJs, he made a campaign of one recorded that he was a native of the Emerald week for the Republican nomination for Gov Isle, was a farmer by occopation, and emi· ernor, and in the race came ou t second to Mr. grated to Amer ica and located in New York Jackson, who wa s nominated. The General city as the war of 18 12 was beginning, being Assembly of Iowa, in j anuary, 1894, by an on the ocean when war was declared. In this almost unanimous vote, elected Mr. Young conflict he was for a short time a participant. State Binder for a term of two years, which William H. Fleming, whose name" in.tro office he now hold s. In the various positions duces this article, was rearoo in New York and which he has held, his serv ice has ever been received his early training partly in a p r ivat ~ characterized by strict fidelity, and as a news school, but mostly in Public School NO.7 of paper man and ci tizen his life has ever been so that city. At the age of fourteen he became conducted that he has won and maintained the an apprentice to the trade of printer in the C"onfide nce and respect of all. office of John A. Gray,. and subsequently he )
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L\JI".WI:TT I; Yoc:s"o w"s born oO n II farm in )-Ionroe County, 10"''', menr E,ldy" "ille, lII"y tn, HI4,S, and ~I ied in D ~s Moines, Novl'mhcr 15, 1 ~ 92r,. H is lParents were John ~nd Ri!lchd (Titus) Young. He had but limlited oppoortunities for nttl'nding school. When a ~ mall boy h~ ",... ked ill<, his f;lthe: r" s wuolom mill at Alh i ~, a mill run by horse power. \ Vhell he ,was "bouft thirleen this mill lmrnl'd, "ftr. • w hich he worked in woolen rmil!s in n":iITby towns fo r " few rorlHs as Illt main support of Ills moe ll er, whik his father anti older brother wucho.,.!. In 1870 he returned t;o Des Moines ami became ci'1y editQU' of t he .$Iule Rpgi$/u. In February, 1871 , he estahlished t he Atifwllric Td~!!JJ'''J''1 a.~ a weekiy pnper but changed it to a dally in Decem.,ber, 1819 .. In Hl1:j he wos elected senator from the district of Adair, Adanns, C"ss~ anti Union counties, \V"$ re_el.,cted in 1871 from the tlisirict (then COlllll"osed of Adair, Cass, and, Madison, and was again elected in 11885, the dlistrict then being Adair, Adams, 1II1d CasS . H e was tl ullS a mennber of Uhe Srnllie in the Fifte">th, $i:'t!centh, Seven te ~nth, E ight.... ~'nth, TWl."lfl ly_flrst , and 'l'w/"nly-sf'COnd gcnl'ra l assemblies. H e ear!y aQok part in rail road kgislatioll, and vot.c,1 for t he original act fi :..:ing railrro"d fr~ig;'ht alld l'assellg~ r rah·s. IiI." was II member of the C Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. ( ( (jllir<:tl .. )JH~(}IHlI '\<:(luuinl"IH'" '" i, C,, ',.,.l"I 11·· ,.,-,-"" ,." .1 .,L)l") ,·mi nen! milil;,rr , (If his lift·, hllrin¥ Ino"'," j:, knQ\\" !e',g~ 11,,,1 ~xjwrirI1Ct', l' lIri~lItd h.l- 11"0)1'[,1 tr"n,\ an d 10;" 1),'''''''1",1 O("[U JOSEPH F. NS:Ol:'-:T """, hurn 111 Tiffin. Ohi,-•. Jfar Z'Z, lsi·... , nnd !lie,j in Des :\loil1e5, IOWII, Decrmbt'r Zil, In.?,;" His pr.rrnls W?Tt' Hlldl 'ItI,1 ;\1ary (DonnellTl .\'u l!' ~"t. Tn I S_(,1 ~h c f~~ l )l1~- reIl1CI'('Olo) a farllt h\"cl1t~" miles northeast d G rall(1 Rnp;(ls, ~ I:ch i glln. J oseph F , r eeeh-ed his first holy ('on1lIn mion nt 51. P" trkk'~ clH,rch, a CQunlTy mission about six mitrs fn)]lI tl,,-, ;..""ug,·nt h(lD'f', tffr~ i ... " clilS3 of ~el·ent.l' - fi'·e chil Ilr",n he r~c~i\"e(l the !'lr,t pri',e for 'Hl~"'.. erillg eorrcctl~" elery '-jut-sliol, of H,e ralc-chis .. ,- He ""U~ ,onfi"mu\ in 1~ ,;(; hy I)", HI. ReI'. Petn P"u\ taFel're, J )j~h')[1 ')1 the D;' ,. '~« of Dd t, ,,,t. He received lois carly e,lueulion in n Countr,'" <:0"'1);<'1\ 'rh •. vi Iwnr l!i ... \"l'·.'nt~' h~1Jl ~ . r--:-ot unlil he \\"~ .' tl\" ~ 'ntr·l lI' Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. £DITORIAL of the actil'ities Itrl' the statistics. IJCrta ill ing 10 .1 sking~ fund f,'COIIl !llcnumtions for tl,(: "ll .~uillg t wo ~Tar ... . '''f!;h: total allllJl1n t uf a skinI-,,," uf tlh" M'\'(" r ':!l stut.- dt"]p rcconmncudcd by tho.; dh-crtor of tl H' \)ll d ).l:d i.~ i'r [',:'.;:?,:}:!!) .• :; (II" :f,Z9 ,HJ.I,{l5!).J0 for tht: t~lI su ing hi cnniulll. " T ille ,ln10unt a pprol'riah:(l alJlllllall .1" h y th,· F(l rt.\"-ti r ~ :t G ':nc .. ~l ,:\sscrmhly as shown on pag(' XX, ",us *q . ~ ,:10S,:' [:" . HI; tlr ;ft.i, (jJ7,O;U O.!.I6 for the bienn iuOl, l'lihieh inclnU .. s the $18,;l;'£\,!Jt2.2'i appr O"j)Tiated by that icgislatll nt: from t he t[ell(; ral fuulll, awl in a dditi,on tllt'reto $200,000.00 fr.-om t he industrks fund! at p(" Il 1t1 instihutiol1s and ~37,108.70 frO lt) continuing and othcr :lll'p.-opria lions. " Tlhe total amoullt of a ~ kill gs and I'CC ollllllt lllhtion;:; includ('. • only !those amounts wh ich arc toO be Jlllid out of t!lf' gl'lllr rni fllut! of the ~tate and does not include ally of the ch: partnlt', nt.~ whi.:-h are se lf-supporting. '''rUle estimates of tlie dirl'('tQl f for the ells uin:~ two ~: 'f'"ar~ 11.'lH' heen loosed on the expenditure's for th e fiscal ~ 'e:) r t lhat cllch:.1 .June 30, 1926, allowing incrt':lIsl's in some install!.'t's" whilt" ill other !>; d ecreases ha\"e heo-., mncde . It h as been the a.iim ()f Hie Ilir("('twr to maintain the llighes;t degree of cffidcllcy tlhroll!!houl al1 de' pllrtmtnts and inst itutioms without any arldiliull :l)' j i!len'nsC' in cX\I>en SC$ . Thcre a rc )lIH11 Cf'lOUS rcqucsts for (u1cliti.vnui l;l;l,h amI !HCW buildings, whieh in mOIs t ('ases ha\'c bccn rdmsed. " 1m 1l11othcr report to the g Ol' erllor is found f.utlul'" r r.' ('om nl" lld:ll lioIiS relating to t he ('urtmil mrnt of ('xpcntlitl:l"l' S "111<1 hI tit; ,.(.ntrmli;.o.ing of \' arious ::tdil"itif"s. " £n:O:51' L. H (I'~ Hl;: . , Dh'cctor of tI,e }lltulget." Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Recollections and Sketches of Notable Lawyers and Public Men of Early Iowa Belonging to the First and Second Generations, with Anecdotes and Incidents Illustrative of the Times By EDWARD H. STILES For nlany years a rnelTllber of the Iowa Bar; rnernber of its House of Representatives, 1S63-186t4; member of its Senate, 18&5-1866 ;; Re porter of its Supreme Couri:. 1867-1875; author of Complete Diigest ·f its Decisions from the ea.. liest Territorial period to the 56th Iowa ~eports. "In old age alone we a re masters of a treasure of which ""'e cannrot be eprived. t he only treaSlUre we oun call OUT own. The p leasure!5 of mermory and the retrospect of tine varied imnges which in an active life lhave ROlated before t he mind, compCIlsate. alnd more than compensate. for tine a ltennate pleasures and cares of ructive lilfe."- SIR ARCHIBALD ALLISON. "Personal anecdote$. when characteristic. greatly enliven ttbe pag ~ s of a biography."- SAMUEL SMULES. I I 3L.;-7 of D U " "'''£5 T HE HO"'Q H " O PU a U $ H ' .. G co. , ~ , a Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. ~52 RECOLLI~ CT IO:XS .-\:-iO SKETC H8S in Ihe United States Biographical Dictionary for Iowa, 1878, In addilion 10 Ihe other office!. mentioned to which he was ele<:led, was that of Representative in the H ouse of the Twenty-Third Ceneral A ssembly, For many years he was an inRuential citizen of Monroe County and the State , His educ at i ~nal advantages had been very meagre, but by dint o f his characteristic perseverance and his determination, he made amends for this deficiency alld became an honor to the commonwealth. He was plain in manners and address and there , was not a false fibre in his character. He was ullerly d evoid of hypocrisy an d well verified the ~ying, that an honest man is the noblest work of Cod. Lafayelle Young was born in Monroe County in 184 8. H e became noted ;u. a man of extraordinary talents. He learned 1he printer's trade and mastered its every detail. He engaged ill newspaper work and in that field as editor and writer, attained great prominence. H e was regarded as one of the most grace ful and pu n gent writers of his time; and his editorials were frequently reproduced in o ther news papers. He early went to Atlantic in Cass County, where he established a news paper called the "Telegrapb," In 18 73 he was elected State Senator. rep resent ing the Counties of Adair. Can , Adams and Union. In 1877 he was re-elected, and again in 1885. serving ill all twelve yean in the Senate. In 1"890 he became proprietor of the" Iowa Capital." published at D es Moines, and under his editorial management it became one of the most widely known news papers in the country, and one of the most powerful organs of the Republican Party. He was not only an editor of ability, but an eloquent orator, and may be properly termed a highly gifted man. General W. L. Alexander told me, in a conversation I had with h im the other day in reference to Lafayette Young, that he was one of the most finished and eloquent speakers he ever heard. A specimen of M r. Young in that behalf will be found in connection with the sketch of C harles Aldrich. In 1893 he was a prominent candidate before the Republican S tate Con vention for Governor, and from 1894 to 1900 he held the office o f State Binder. During the Spanish-American War he went with our army to the fi eld as War Correspondent. and furnished. strikingly gra(>hic report s of the military operations. Speaking of J osiah YOlUlg as having been Clerk of the District Court of Monroe County, reminds me of Joha W . H . Griffin, who was his Deputy, afterward Clerk himself. and is still a fixture in that office. The fo llowing A ssociated Press dis patch, which I clipped from a newspaper at the time, will throw sufficient light on Ihe subject: Albia, .June 30, 191 3.- John W. H. Grimll was gtven a letter shower J lI ne 27th, by the members of tbe 1Il0nl'oe County bar and by bls numerous frle nds_ 'fhe occa· slou was tbe fo rty-rourth ulnlversary of his clerkshi p in the county clerk's off\.:e, both as cou.nty clerk and de puty. He is eighty years otd and celebrated his gold .. n wedding five years ag o. He Is still aetive and vigorous, rIdes a bicycle, and hts Ullnd still giY cs him power to tnk ~ an active pari In business lite. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. nECOl ~ I .. Er.T10NS AN-'O SKETCHES &53 One \who has :scrved the public so long azu:d faithfully, deserves Ihe "notice I have thus givenl of him. There were two or three other early lawyers of considerable note IllIat located in r Albia, Inrd with 'Whom I became acquainted.. They were William A Allison. William !P. Hammond. George Yocum. B. F. Yocum and James Cc,m, but con cerning Intern I have no dala save a liule I oLttained from Col. Dan Amderson some thirty-6ve years aco, and of which I made a 'memoranda al the time. and my own recollectiom. AIliSOfn, Cololllel Anderson infor~d me, c.Jme from Ohio and locatled in Albia soon after he did. They were both associated with Cyrus Walker im the defense of Cap R~ for killing Doctor Wright at a bmd sale in Ottumwa. The trial was in th e old log c01.lrthousc at Albia. AllisOil subsequently went to T-exas for his health. retwming tOo Eddyville in Wapello Coumty in a year or two afterward. where he died of consumption. r became acquaintedl w1th him while he was m Eddyville. He was a learned and excellent lawyer. hut om account of his health • .aid but little practice allier I kl1lew him. Henry N . ClelDC;nts. of Eddyville. studi£d law with him, and a..fterward went 10 California. Willia"fI P . Hammond, according to ColOlllCI Anderson, caDle to Allbia in 1855 or 1856, I r eco l ~ect hi m disti nctly. He WlllS an exceedingly bright iilnd ingenius lawyer. witth black hair. fine black eyes, and .. pale face upon which ~on5umpt i on had sct its flDark. and of which he died some forty years ago. George Yocum came 500n after H ammond.. Both he and Hammomd used fr e • quently to attend oUi r courts at Ottumwa. He was slight of figure. wore spectacles and looked like a young professor. He was exceedingly vivacious, made quite a lively figure: in court. and had talents of no mean order. H e was assaciated with his brother . .R F . Yoc.um. H e moved away aT died very many years ago. James (Caen came a few years later. He was crippled in his feet and legs. which ma de it diffi cuh for him to get about. He was a very industrious lawyer and made his way quite .successfu lly in the professiOlJl. He. too. died many years ago. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. ' / HISTORY OF IOWA FRIOM TBIE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE BEGllNNING fOF THE TWENTIETH CUfTURY F()lUR VOLUMES By BENiJAMIN F. GUE Illustratid witb P bqJ()gr~pbil f/kwl if tht Nalu,...,1 Sa ntry if tbl State . Pllbli. B lli/di11gl. PiulUt r Lift. Ell, WITH PORTRAITS AND .1110GRAHillIES OP ~OTABLI!. MKN AND WOM E ~ OF IOWA VOLUME IV IOW/A BIOGRAPHY " EAL (JI" ,.UE S'I'ATE OF 10W'\ THE CENTUIRY HISTORY COMPANY 4J . L&FAYETTE PL AC E NEW YORI; CITY , \ Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. 6 OF IOWA 299 being in car ica lure. A I\I,IIlIIo rOU 9 sketch called the" Removal of the Oapi· tol " from] JOWl CUty, broug ht him before the public and the members o f t.ht Legi$L~ture them in .seMion at Iowa City_ This caricature attr acted the attention IDf Judge '!Charles ?tla!lOn, who sought him out and aided him with m oney, by' whkh hoe wu able to begin a coune of aft. st udy in New York il't 1851, I!'Dter ing tille sehools of lhe National Academy 01 Design. In 1~6 he welllt to Paris and became a pupil of Thomas Co uture, one o f the great painters of Fra nce. The panic of 1857 ob1i~d him to suppOrt h imself b:w making oopies o.f popular pictures io the galleries of Paris. In 1860 he 'II\'e nt to IBol1and and Belgium to study t he masterpiecu of U lt~ D ul.ch anod FJ emis;a-, painten, and retur ned to New York in 1861. His moe t imp'ort.nt picrturc painted in F rance was .. Ohildren Oil the Se(l$hore, NOf mUHfl'!l/," com mii.8s ioned by the la l.e J oh n Allen, Esq., e f Saybrook, Conn. In New York in naoo he painted a portrait or hi! early patron, Cha rlu :Mason, am engravimg from which appears in tb i ~ volume. In 1567 be wemt to ltaly, taking a studio in Rome, where be lived unt il 1878, $pl!mdi ng thc' Kummer months eithe r at Perugia, Venice or tIle Vcne· tilln TjrQll. Of Italian subjccU! his principal pictures were " Entrance to t lte Gra"'" COII(lI, Venice,'" owned by Senalor Allison of Iowa; "Sf;IUI, te Clw. mber ill the Droge', Prd o Cfl, Venice," PlliDted for the late Geo rge Kemp, Esq., of ~ew Yo rll.c:, and" I nterior of St. M(!rk'$ Oh\l rch, 'venice," in t he W,w,swor.th Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Since 1878, ~. Yewell hl8 lived in New York, spending his summen at Lake George. Nearly all of these yean have been given to port rait pai nting. l\lany.,f his 1Il0at important por tr a i t.~ are in the Capitol at Des Moilllel, whene may be seen those of ElC-GovernOT8 K irkwood, Lowe and Cbambers, GClDeral Gren'ille M. Dodge and J udges Mason, Wright. a nd Dillon. In 1880 he ~' a ! elected a member of t.he Nation.. 1 Acadcmy of Thl· lip. He is a PSiitron of t he Metropolitan Museum of Art, a member of the Century Club .. l\nd for ma ny years has been secreury of the Artist.' Fund Soodety of lthe City of New York. LAFAYETTE: YOUNG '1".1.5 bo rn in Monroe County , Iowa, on thc lOth of May~ 1848. Iilis tarly education was acquired in the public schools Ind in p rinting OIl1icell at Albia a nd De.s :Moines, wbere he soon mastered the primting and:! general ne\\~(laJler bus in ess. Hi ~ finst business enter· prise was the es4..a bJishing of a weekly newspaper at. Atlantic which he named II.he Telf'9''fJph.. He wY5 an acth'e Republican and in the summer 01 1873. r e« h'~d t he nom inalion of that party for State Senator for the district composed! of the rountieR of Adair, Cass, Adams and Union and was elCt('tld. In 1877 he was reCiec led from the dist ri ct consist ing of Madi SO lll , CISS lind Ad,ir counties. In 1885 he was again elected to the Se nate irom the Eighteenth District ('Omposed of the co un t ies of Adair, Ad ams and Cus: for the term of four jelrs, serving' in that body for Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. 300 mSTOBlY twelve yelUs. In 1890 h· d I ~ •. e .emove 0...... ", Moinea and pu~ha ed,- t!:h n ewspaper establishment of the I owa Cppital, which under his ~a.na : mtllt has become one of the most enterprising daily papers in the Sta~e. I.n 1893 Mr. Young was ODe of the prOl)lioUlt candidates before the Re wb- hran' State Convention for Governor. III. 1894 M Y P St t B' d h i' . . r. OUng '1'11'&11 chOliteli a e III er, 0 dlDg. the poslhoD by reelection until Decembe 31 llHOO '''hen war with Spain Wall declared he wellt with th, A ,... '. . h w nealD army rio t e $ ~at of eonfiiet near Santiago as war correspondent and fl.lro.ishted grap~le reports of ~e campaign which resulted in the su nendler of Ube Spanish Sl r my. He IS a n able public spea ker as well as a Bue:nt writt):t a nd a suecessful journalist. , CB.A.R~S BEARDSL EY was born near Mount Vernon, KIl(l)); Count!, OhiO, on the 18th of February, 183(1. He prepared fo r -college ::o.t GranVllle Academy and Wesleyaa University, Del aware, entering the Ohno Medical College a t Cincinnati and was graduated fr om that i:lla titutiOIR. In 1855 he came t o Iowa and began the practice of medici ne at ltrUSCIQ_ tine, but soon removed to Oskalo08:l, wbere, in 186 1 he became editor JOHN OOWNS ELBERT Wall bor. in Fler.ning County, Kentuc~, MIlY HI. )906 IUld was a son of Dr. John lXIwns ..ad Elizabeth Ficklim Elbert.. I n - 1812 his f:Lther remo.·ed with hi~ f amily t o> Logan COllnty, OhiOt. Thtre yOLlng Elbert spent his ~hildhood and youth. H is ed uca tional ad ... nt! gee Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. DES MOINES The Pioneer of Municipal Progress and Reform of the Middle West T OGETHER WITH THE HISTORY OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA The Lugest, Mott Popwous and Mou Pro5peroUI C OU Dty ill the Stare of fo wl By JOHNSON BRIGHAM .STATE UBaARJAN OF IOWA ILLUSTRATED VOLUME I I CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBUSHING COMPANY 19 " Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. 24 CITY OF DES ~JOI~ES .-\1>:D POLK COli~T Y principal business. The ,; uccess that he has achie\'etl is almost be!~o l1d l ~lici . H e has come into possessIOn of a large portion of the most \ almnh!e property of the city. Upon thiS he has erected many hne bUl ldlllgs and has. mam' [llans in vi ew which wiiJ still fu nher beautify the city. There is probabh" not aTl HO:\". LAF;\ YETTE YOLo ~G. Hon, Laiayette Young. numbered among those \\'ho for ~on lt e y~ar~ !l;I\' C been molding public opinion in lo\\'a, is no\\' leav ing h i ~ imp ress 11PXln tl](: p .. )li,i cal history that is being \\Titten by congress in \\·ashinglOn. for, jEllied ;a~ thl! successor to Senator Dolliver, he is no\\' one of I O \\ ':l' ~ two repn~en t at i ~'~" in the upper hou se and enjoy,: the di~t in ction or' I.>eing the {)Il ly nal i\\"~ ~"n ,_,i this state to be so honored. Born in )Ionroe county, Iowa, on 'he loth oi :\Iay. ,H"S. he "'lIJelll hi". ~arly youth in hi s iather's home, and when not occllpiCtI \I"ith the t!li'o ru oi aCGl uiring an education in the public schools he a55isted hi ,; iatber. \\"ho 0\\,11.,.\ and oper \, ated a woolen mill run by horse power. HI! was one oi a family ,oi ,even chil dren and the lack o i financial re :SOlI rce ~ in the home llIalle it incU\1ob ... m Lh :l.I hI! I spend much of hi s time in labor. and he had little opportunity ior ltlie en;o yllwllt of those sports which engage the atlelllion of 1ll0~ 1 ooy,:. . \rhelll hl" \1"a.5 thir teen year ~ of age I~is father's mill burned dO\\'1I. Th1l5 de\"oh'."U1 IlpOlll hilll the necessity o f pro\'iding for his o\nl Hlppon in other \\'ayi: it Iluant tlh at I\~e boy i houJd assume the burdens o t' manhood and that he \\'as tim..:. {lltpriH,J; oi t ll~ parental assistance anti guidance \\'hich came to him \\"ith hi s iathe.."C"·s in~t ll' u rti" n in the work oi the mill. H e \\'ent to Albia, where he secure.. ] employment ill a ll e\\'~palp~1' " tli ... '~·, 0111 .1 later he was loca tetl at different ti mes at Centen'ille. Keokuk ;and Ed.{ln illt:". Gradually he ma,; tered a ll oi th e ul1lie5 in connection \\'i lb the mtNhanic;u( 0])(' 1' atiOIl of a newspape r and learned to ;;Q! \le extent the secret of St\.rce,:.,:. iI1l1 jour nal ism in business management and in new spaper writing, He n'H. h':'\\"l·\'er. throughom hi s entire life bee n a student. ior he ha s never ceased-l to kal\'n. and each year find ;; him \\' ith broader experience and \\'ith a \\'iLle r undet"qanding and. therefore, \\'ith greater force and pcr;;onality as a jOl1Tnali~ t . a i the lIli (l dle west, Early in hi s newspaper career he \\'a,; connected with the ."jeb ,]('p;artlllcnt of the St. Louis D ispatch. wh ich \\" a ,; ten years before that paper " ' a ~ .-oM irom Ih(' cou rthollse steps at auction to Joseph Pulitzer fo r twenty-fin!" hU IHhred dol lar~. Early experience in the ncwsl)apet" field also came to him a ~ an .enlplo.\" e oj :'Ilil1~ & Company of Des )Io;ne;;. :-\bollt the time of hi!'o marriage he relllO\'ed to ,-\tlantic. fo '.-a. an ~ l o.:"l:tlo li"he(1 Ihe :-\ tlantic Telegraph in Fe brllar~' , 187 f, cont inuing it.:; pmblica tiR)n nntil :\Iarch. IB9;:l. and in thar periOl1 o f ninet een years built up Ol te: of t!he most prospe rous journals in that section o f the ~ tate. \\'ishing to try ute broa.d('T field offered in Des :'I[oi nes. he returned tn the ~·it~ · \\'here he had 1i\'tm twen:t)" yeari be fore aocl founded the Capital, co ntinuing as its editor and llllanager 11l1lil he was temporarily relie\'ed i rolll th05(' (!tllie,: by hi s. son and namle;ake. :a iter his appointment ;1. 5 the Sllcce!"50r (l i SenaTnr DoU in' r in the L"n itl!""d State..: "'enat(', Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. ...,' ' .:\11". YUl1tlg \\",! ,; reared in the faith oi the delllu..: rc1ti( part,", hi~ iather anu Ihfothers all being stalwart supporters oj that po)iili..:a! f1aith. bl1i the independent .: ~iril. \\"hich causNI Laiayette YOl1ng to stan Out in Ii ic ior himself at the age '.ll t lil!rtccn has been maniit's! in his political I· j ew,; as \\"cH a5 in other relations OJ ' Jiic. He lOok I1p the study oj politic~. carriNI hi_~ in',-cstigatiolls far and \\"ide, t!hought earne~tly alld l"OIlSiciered \\"i~ely. Hi~ opinion" han' been the result of c"areiul resea,reh and thorough l1nderstanding ilnd the repIlbltcan party has lor ., "ears recog!1!zed in him one oi its foremost f"epresen ! tative~ in ft)II" Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. £ CITY or DE~ :'tIUi \"E:-: ,\:\1) j'OLK COL',TY sturdy position that he has eHr oc.cllpied in hi" champion5h ip (1 i 1110\"el11enl ':' or measures in which he believes. In 1870 Senator Young \\"35 united in marriage to :\Iiss Josephine Bolton. whose acquaintance he had ianned \\"hen she was a student in a private ! I_a iayctte \·Otl ng. Jr.. btl,;ine5..: manager ~.i till' De.- '[',.i ne_ Capital -tnce ,Tunc '3. 1901. wa s bo rn in :\t\anll.il-, To\\'a, December I. IS,$. the: ~ ·o tln.!!lf:r son o f Cniled States Senator Lafayellte am! Jo ~ eph i ne t GOltOll1 YO t::lIlg. He wa.; t\\'eh'e year$ of age when [he fam ,1 1 ~' r(" IIlO\'ed to De$ )'Io in~ ~ and .;after coullplet ing his preliminary education in the Jll1blie ~c h oo l _ etHered the IL ni \'er;:.;ity 01 ) Iichigan. which numbers him alnong it~ alumni, H e \\'as gradu. Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. The BIOGRAPH ICAl DICTIONARY of EDITED BY David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, &: Loren Horton PUBLISHED fOR THE State Historic;!1 Society of Iowa by the University of Iowa Press, Iowa City Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. WRICHT. YOUNC Imit "Judge Geo. G. Wright," Proceedings oJlhe Pio· After serving as a copyeditor for the Iowa oem. neer Lawmllkm Association oflowll. Reunion of State Registerin Des Moines, where he married Ie of /898 (1898); and GeorgeG. Wright Jr., "Judge Josephine Bolton on March 20, 1870, Young cal ... een Wright and His Contemporaries:' Sixtieth moved to the three·year.old town of Atlantic, du. Anniversary of the College of Law 1865- Iowa, in 1871 to start the Td~graph. In 1873 he began representing (ass County in the state th" !925,~ Bulletin of the SUIte University of IOWIl, nong no.}72 (1926), 32-44' senate as a Republican. He would continue is mixing journalism and Republican politics : was RICHARD ACTON Jelop throughout his life, but his political viewpoint. Young, Lafayette moderately antimonopoly as a legislator, ,u. (May 19, 1848-November 15. 19 26) veered toward the conservative thereafter. ·,e du. _journalist, state senator and U. S. senator In 1890 Young moved to Des Moines and It. tn whose dual role as editor of the Des Moines a~quired the Des Moines Capital, which he '.s land Capita! and chair of Iowa's Council of published and edited until his death in 1926. l, in National Defense during World War I c1i· In 1893 he unsuccessfully sought the Repub· f . and maxed his career-was the son of John and lican nomination for governor, and eyed it ,unt)' Rachel (Titus) Young. "Lafe" considered again in 1901, but what support he still had fro· Eddyville, Iowa, his hometown. But he was among progressives could not match that of ria,. not born there, as most sources state. Instead, Albert B. Cummins. as his newspaper, the Des Moints Capital, In 1900 Young nominated Theodore Roo· Idest would eulogize, he was born in Monroe sevelt for the vice presidency at the Republican udgr County, Iowa, "in a rude little log cabin on National Convention in Philadelphia. Young Do Soap Creek near _ .. Appanoose Count[y]." had intended to nominate Iowa senator !law His family moved near Eddyville soon after Jonathan Dolliver. but after extended negotia /iain his birth. But the Capital erroneously claimed tions, Dolliver withdrew in favor of Roosevelt. :ring' that the only school education he ever Young thereupon tweaked his prepared speech ~end obt~ined was secured "by tramping several and persuaded all delegates except Roosevelt 'Th< miles to a country schoolhouse three win· himselfto ratify the nomination. -ehis ters." In fact, he also attended night school in After Dolliver's death in 19\0, Governor SI. Louis in 1868 and 1869. Beryl Carroll appointed Young to fill Dolliver's dally Young's life was shaped by his age in rela· Senate seat until the legislature acted. Aside tion to his nations wars. Too young to fight from breaking Senate precedent with a e,'" he" during the Civil War, he carried an enthusi· spee<:h early in his term, his six· month stint ann· asm for that conflict unmediated by the reali· in the Senate was unremarkable and over ties of actual combat. He was, however, in the shadowed by the electioneering. The Capital's Zouaves, a Monroe County Home Guard, claim that Young should be considered a Pro which successfully protected Albia from a gressive because he was generous with his brgely imagined threat of Confederate inva· time and money did not change any votes. sion. Young later appointed himself war cor Progressive Republicans in the legislature respondent to Cuba in 1899, where he were divided on a candidate but united in real· betame friends with Theodore Roosevelt, and izing that sending the election to a primary to Europe in 191). where a brief detainment would assure Standpat candidate Young's by Austria, apparently because his first name election, which they forestalled at the expense SOunded French, reinforced his support for of their principles. After a four-month stand .Offie the Allied cause. off, with one vote taken every day of the /!4- Tre- -- \., . ' 573 Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. ------~ Y OUNG session, on the last day the legislature selected Daniel Potts. "William Squire Ken, ",og on and th e William Kenyon , the last Iowa senator to be Iowa Senatorial Ele atmosphere of wartime hysteria. Young's Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization , '.J~w ...... lme . ! ~ ngi strategy stood oul: at the April 1918 meeting P,deraIism, and the Council ofNational Defen~ , "d of state CND units in Washington, D.C., he 1917- /919 (1984); and Burlington Hawkeye, siss called for stockading 5,000 Iowans, ·or," he 11 22/ 1911 . ,,0 predicted darkly, "there will be a tragedy. ~ BILL R. DOUGLAS mo But Young's rhetoric seemed almost mod· ap erate compared to that of Governor Harding, Young, William John who made references to "baseball bats" and (February 27, 1827-June 8, 1896) '",", ~lumberman-was born in Belfast, Ireland. "necktie parties." In July 1918 Young com· IT" pared Harding's ·'Babel Proclamation~ (out. In 1846, at age 19 , he emigrated to the tho lawing the public use of any language other United States. Working as a grocery store than English) favorably to Lincoln's Emanci· clerk, he gained some knowledge of book pation Proclamation. keeping, which he used to obtain a iob with a In the summer of 1918 Iowa CND board railroad contractor, which in turn led to a member James Pierce attacked his fellowcoun· position as a freight agent with the Cincin. bo cil members in Iowa Hormsuad editorials with nati. Logansport & Chicago Railroad. During b, titles such as "Raw Meat Ealers" and "Iowa's his railroad career, some Cincinnati men Reign of Terror." The question of whether offered him the opportunity to open a lum ili Pierce could be legally removed from thecoun· beryard at Clinton. Iowa, for the Ohio Mill d, cil for his dissent apparently went unresolved Company. At about the same time, in 1858, when the end of the war made the point moot. he married Esther Elderkin, of Richmond, "n Young died in 1926. His son, Lafayette Jr., I ndiana. They had six children. succeeded him as publisher of the Capital, The Ohio Mill was located at La Crosse, but the paper did not long outlast the senior Wisconsin. Young's job was t(l receive nfts Young, merging with the Des Moines Tribun e and sell lumber at Clinton. When one of the in 1927. Cincinnati partners died and the comp;my was dissolved, Young did all of the business in SOURCES The State Historical Society of Iowa, his own name for several months, then Des Moines, holds a collection of Young's became a partner in the reorganized firm, papers, primarily correspondence. See also which was named w. J. Young & Company, Des Moines Capiral, 1890-1926; Dictionary (If and convinced his partners to move the mill American Biography vol. 10 (1958); Leland from La Crosse to Clinton, leaving Young in Sage, A Histof}' of Iowa (1974); Thomas Ross. charge of both sa wing and selling. Slowly the Jonathan Prm/iss Dolliver: A Study in Political business prospered. With improvements to Integrity and Independence (1958): Thomas the mill over the years, lumbermen ge nerally James Bray, nle Rebirth of Pradom (1957); Eli 574 Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. Roots Web's WorldConnect Project: Cowell,Leffl er, Redel ,Matz,Drager,Krueger. 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