Robert R. Young was an
American
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from
Grant County, Wisconsin
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—sometimes reported as being from
Wyalusing—sometimes as from
Hazel Green. who served a single term in the 1849
2nd Wisconsin Legislature
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as a
Whig member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly from Grant County.
Background
In 1843, he married Lucinda Stiles, daughter of David Stiles and Elizabeth Cummins Stiles. By 1859, he, she and the husband she married "several years after his death" were all dead and buried in the same cemetery in Hazel Green.
In 1847, Young was nominated for Grant County
tax assessor, and was elected along with almost the entirety of the Whig ticket that year.
[Holford, pp. 180-181]
References
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19th-century American politicians
People from Grant County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Whigs
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing