Santa Clara Biography
Edward Young
Born in Dorsetshire, England, July 22, 1834. In the year 1856 he emigrated to Australia, where he mined until 1867, in which year he returned to the "Old Country." After a short stay, he came to California, and arrived in Santa Clara county in the Fall of 1868. He first went to Almaden township, and commenced getting out timber from the redwoods for use in the mines, at which employment he continued eleven years. In 1878, he came on to the place where he now resides, consisting of one hundred and nine acres of land. Married, in San Francisco, June 21,1870, Sarah Shepherd, a native of England, and has five children: Harriet, born April 21,1872; Maria, born January 17, 1874; Charles G., born August 12,1875; Henry, born September 28, 1876; Nancy, born February 19,1881.
History of Santa Clara County, California,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, October, 2007 Page 561
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