Identifier: montanaitsstoryb03stou (find matches)
Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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positive character,as are all men of constructive genius. He hasgone ahead and done things or got things done,and has seldon concerned himself with the criticisrnseither favorable or the reverse. Some have saidthat no man between St. Paul and the Pacific Coasthas ever been criticized so freely as Colonel White,but while he freely recognizes that there are sinsof omission at his door, there is on the other handa large program of real work and achievement tohis credit. John F. Young, whose farming activities areequally important with his mercantile ones, is oneof the well-known rtlfen of Big Horn County. Hewas horn in Gentry County, Missouri, .August 20,1880, but in childhood his parents moved to DawesCounty, Nebraska, and there he was reared and at-tended the country schools. His first work wasdone as a cowboy with J. B. Kendricks, now- UnitedStates senator from Wyoming, on his OW ranch.Mr. Young continued to be a range rider until 1903;and was in the service of the Hysham Cattle Com-
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/^^^^ ey. (Ufif^^^ZATTZA-^ HISTORY OF MONTANA 1275 pany when he left that class of work. Havinglearned the business and saved some money Mr.Young then went into it as Stevenson and Youngon the Rosebud, near Kirby, running his stock underthe brand FK, and spent four years in that lo-cality. He then moved to Lodgegrass and at thattime opened mercantile establishment, carrying onboth lines of business ever since. His homesteadfiling has been made here and he operates it and hisleased land. Mr. Young came to mans estate under the in-fluence of republican doctrines, and cast his firstpresidential ballot in Montana for the republicancandidate. In 1918 Mr. Young was elected a mem-ber of the board of commissioners of Big HornCounty to succeed Dan Sullivan, and his presentassociates on the board are A. H. Bowman and D.A. Kamp. These gentlemen have had an importantinfluence in developing this region and have givenit an enviable reputation for good roads and otherpublic impro

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