John Young came of a Scotch family that settled near Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, in the Sixteenth or Seventeenth century.  Here, in 1623, the first of the family whose record is known to us was born in 1718, in his ninety-sixth year, with his son and grandson, their brothers and sisters, and sister' husbands, forming in all fourteen, part of a Scotch-Irish colony, he sailed away from Ireland, and landed in Boston, Mass., the same year. One of the descendants settled in Petersborough, N.H., and there John Young was born in 1763. About 1780 he emigrated to Whitestown, N.Y., and in June, 1792 was married to Mary Stone White, youngest daughter of Hugh White, the first settler there and original proprietor of a large tract of wild land.

John Young lived in Whitestown until 1796, in which year he became interested in Ohio lands. In 1797 he began the settlement of Youngstown, to which place, two years later, he moved his wife and two children--John and George--through 500 miles of pathless wilds.. Here two more children were born to him--William, in 1799 and Mary in 1802. In 1803, Mrs. Young, finding the trials of frontier life, with a latch-string always out, and a table free to all, too great with her young family for her power of endurance, persuaded her husband to close up his business and returned with the family to Whitestown, where her father had kept a house for them.

Mr. Young's nominal occupation subsequently was that of farmer, though he devoted the greater part of his time to other business interests. He was for many years engaged in the construction and superintendency of the Great Western Turnpike from Utica to Canadaigua, and later on, the Erie Canal, near which he resided, and upon which one of his sons was employed as civil engineer.

As one of the justices of the peace and quorum, Mr. Young sat upon the bench as the first territorial court held at Warren in 1800, and was ever after addressed as Judge Young. He died in April, 1825, at the age of sixty-two, twenty-two years after his return from Youngstown. His wife survived him fourteen years, dying in September, 1839, in the old home of her father, at Whitestown, N.Y. at the age of sixty-seven.

Source: 20th Century History of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Gen. Thos. W. Sanderson, Editor, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, IL (1907)