Young, John D
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1823, on Flat Creek, Ky. During 1843-46 he was a farmer and deputy sheriff; and during 1852-55 was a deputy United States marshal under his father, Colonel Thomas Johnson Young. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar, and the same year was elected judge of that county court, serving four years. He received the re-election in 1866, but resigned the following year, having received the nomination of the democratic party as a candidate to a seat in the fortieth congress. He was elected but refused his seat; he was again elected to the forty-third congress, and served out his full term. In 1890 Judge Young was again re-elected judge of Bath county, serving four years; and is now master commissioner of the Bath circuit court.