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Young, John S

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. He served in the confederate army throughout the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At the close of the war resumed the practice of his profession at Homer, La.; and was a district judge.

He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.

YOUNG, MRS. JULIA EVELYN [DIT- TO], author, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1857, in Buffalo, N. Y. She is a novelist and poet of Buffalo; and the author of Adrift, a Story of Niagara; Glynne's wire, a Story in Verse; and Thistle Down.

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