General Notes

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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

DR. BROWN YOUNG was born in Jessamine County, Ky., on the 10th of March,
1823, the third son of the late Dr. Archibald and Martha Young.  His
grandfather, John Young, with his brother, Robert, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, and brother were in the battle of Eutaw when Gen. Greene
was repulsed by the British under Col. Stewart.  John Young and his brother
were afterward at the celebrated battle of King's Mountain, where Col.
Patrick Ferguson was killed.  Mr. Draper, in his history of the "King's
Mountain Heroes" says, on page 275: "One of Col. Sevier's men, named
Gililland, who had received several wounds, and was well nigh exhausted,
seeing the advance of Ferguson and his part, attempted to arrest the career
of the great leader, but his gun snapped, when he called out to Robert
Young, of the same regiment: `There's Ferguson! Shoot him.'  `I will try
and see what Sweet Lips can do,' muttered Young, as he drew a sharp sight,
discharging his rife, when Ferguson fell from his horse, and his associates
were either killed or driven back.  Several bullets had taken effect on
Ferguson apparently at the same time, and a number claimed the honor of
shooting Ferguson."  This Robert Young was a son of Joseph Young, an uncle
of the Doctor and Col. Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, third son of Robert
Young, of Jessamine County.  Dr. Archibald Young was born in Fayette
County, Ky., in 1791.  He practiced medicine in Jessamine County from 1817
to 1859, the year he died.  He was postmaster of Nicholasville during a
part of the administration of John Quincy Adams.  His son, Brown Young,
entered the junior class of Centre College in 1834, and graduated in 1836.
After leaving college he remained on his father's farm two years.  He
began the study of medicine in 1839, and in 1841 graduated from the medical
department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., and has since
practiced medicine in Jessamine, Woodford and Mercer Counties, with great
success.  Dr. Young was married in March, 1845, to Miss Emline Drake,
daughter of the late Samuel Drake, of Jessamine County.  One child was
born to this union--Adaline, who married Leonard H. Willis, grandson of
Capt. William T. Willis, who lost his life in the battle of Buena Vista
during the Mexican war.  Dr. Young is a good physician, and stands very
high among his professional brethren.  He is a Mason of the thirty-second
degree, under the Scottish rites