WILLIAM WELLINGTON YOUNG 

William Wellington Young passed the greater part of his life in California, he having been a lad of twelve years at the time when he accompanied his parents from New York City to San Francisco, in 1852.  

Mr. Young was born in New York City, on the 12^th of July, 1840, and was a son of Thomas and Mary (Marchant) Young, the former of whom was born at Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, on the 12^th of April, 1812, and the latter of whom was born in Kentshire, England, their marriage having been solemnized in New York, on the 19^th, of February, 1837, and they having there continued their residence until 1852, when they numbered themselves among the pioneers of San Francisco, where Mrs. Young died in 1890 and where her husband passed away in 1900 at the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Thomas Young became one of the early and influential exponents of the real estate business in San Francisco, where he was a member of the representative firm of Young and Paxson and where he did much to advance civic and material development and progress. He served for a time as city recorder and was otherwise influential in public affairs of local order.  

William W. Young gained his rudimentary education in the old Empire State, and after the family removal to San Francisco he here continued his studies in the public schools of the pioneer days. As a young man he was for a time identified with banking business in Nevada County, Nevada, and after his return to California he became prominently identified with the development of the celebrated, Idaho Mine, in Grass Valley. He retired from active business connections in the year 1871, after having accumulated a substantial estate, and he passed the remainder of his life in San Francisco, where his death occurred August 15, 1906, and where his widow still remains, her home being at 901 California Street.

October 19, 1871 recorded the marriage of Mr. Young and Miss Ella F. Combs, and of the two children of this union the elder, Grace, became the wife of Churchill Williams. Her death occurred in Philadelphia, in 1900. The younger daughter, Mrs. Edith Raymond, still resides in this city. 

Louise E. Shoemaker, Transcriber April 24, 2004