Horace C. Young (August 28, 1806 – May 19, 1879) was an American architect and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Henry Young (1775–1852) and Philany (Kellogg) Young (1783-1865). He was born in that part of the Town of Smithfield which was separated in 1823 as the Town of Fenner, in

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. He became a builder and architect. On January 19, 1831, he married Laura P. Walker (1808–1890), and they had six children, among them Congressman

H. Olin Young Horace Olin Young (August 4, 1850 – August 5, 1917) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Young was born in New Albion, New York, the son of State Senator Horace C. Young (1806–1879) and Laura P. (Walker) Young (1808–1890). He ...

(1850–1917). In May 1832, the couple removed to

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, in

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. He was elected a

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in 1834; and was Supervisor of New Albion in 1843, and from 1845 to 1848. He drew the plans for the first

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which burned down in 1881. He was a member of the

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(Cattaraugus Co., 2nd D.) in

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and

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; and of the

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(32nd D.) in

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and

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 443, 466 and 468)
''Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and the Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1862 and '63''
by William D. Murphy (1863; pg. 120ff)

transcribed from ''Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY'' by William Adams (1893), at Painted Hills {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Horace C 1806 births 1879 deaths New York (state) state senators New York (state) Republicans People from Cattaraugus County, New York People from Smithfield, New York New York (state) Whigs 19th-century American legislators Members of the New York State Assembly Town supervisors in New York (state)