Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANKLIN
L. YOUNGMAN
FRANKLIN L. YOUNGMAN.--Much of the
attraction of California, and especially of Sacramento County as a place of
residence, is undoubtedly due to the adequate facilities for medical treatment
and service furnished by such representatives of the drug-trade and the medical
profession as Franklin L. Youngman, the popular druggist of 2700 Twenty-fourth
Street, Sacramento. He was born at Lake
View, Mich., on July 1, 1876; and his parents were George C. and Julia (Kilborn) Youngman, who came out to California in November,
1907. George Youngman was widely known
as a very progressive ranchman, and he is now enjoying a well-earned
retirement.
Franklin
L. Youngman was given the advantages of both the grammar and high school
courses of study, and after that he worked for a while on the home ranch. He then clerked in a drug-store, studied and
became a registered pharmacist; and for a while he was active in the general
merchandise business in the East.
Returning to Sacramento he established a drug house at the corner of
Fourteenth and J Streets, but at the end of three years he sold out, and
reopened at 2700 Twenty-fourth Street, where he
founded his present well-known house. At
that time, there were only a few people in that section, but now it is thickly
populated, the streets are paved, and there are other modern improvements, due
in part to Mr. Youngman. He also had a
store in 3826 Stockton Boulevard, and these stores he
is now converting into general merchandise headquarters. He employs six people, and is very
successful. A real pioneer at Highland
Park, he feels a particular interest and pride in the locality. He is a Republican, and as such has always
tried to effect legislation likely to prove beneficial to the community.
When Mr. Youngman married, in 1902, at Lake
View, Mich., he chose for his life companion Miss Jennie A. Royce of Michigan;
and their union has been blessed with four children: Beatrice, Rosamond, Hugh
(now a registered pharmacist), and Bertha.
George C. Youngman, the father, was a supervisor of Cato Township,
Montcalm County, Mich., for fifteen years and he himself served as justice of
the peace for four years, and still takes a deep interest in public
affairs. In Masonry, too, he is active,
and is a master Mason, being a member of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 380, F. &. A.
M., of Lake View, Mich.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source:
Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 736.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
©
2007 Donna L. Becker.