THE HISTORY OF SAUK COUNTY WISCONSIN 1880 published: Chicago: Western Historical Society SOME OF SAUK COUNTY'S ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD Page 436 JOHN C. YOUNG was born in Montgomery County, N.Y., November 10, 1790, where he lived till March, 1834, removed thence to Otsego County. From there he went in 1848 to Jefferson County, and in May, 1856, he settled on Section 5 in the town of Reedsburg, where he died on the 17th of February, 1878. Mr. Young was particularly illustrious in having been a soldier in 1812, and also a Mason of over sixty years' standing, having received all the degrees of the order obtainable in America. Contributed by Linda Wright