Biography

01/03/1859 - 05/05/1921

YOUNG, John H., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, January 3, 1859 in Glenshaw, Allegheny County, Pa.; attended, public schools of Sharpsburg, Pa.; clerk, grocery store; rolling and puddling worker, steel mills; Chief of Highways and Sewers, Allegheny County; Inspector, Road Department, Allegheny County; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1910 and 1912; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1914); street commissioner, Sharpsburg (1906-1919); employed, Office of the Assessor, Allegheny County (1919-1921); died, May 5, 1921 in Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, First Congregational Church Cemetery, Etna, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.