East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Young, Walker January 5, 1871 -
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Author: Henry E Chambers
Walker C. Young is one of the popular citizens and valued public officials in
the picturesque old capital city of Baton Rouge, where he is clerk of the court
and also ex officio recorder of the parish of East Baton Rouge.
On a plantation near Port Hudson, in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana,
Walker C. Young was born January 5, 1871. In this parish also was born his
father, the late Robert T. Young, who became one of the extensive planters and
successful merchants in the Port Hudson district of the parish, and who
remained on his fine plantation estate until the time of his death. He was one
of the honored and influential citizens of his native parish, was a stalwart
advocate of the principles of the democratic party and was a delegate to the
Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1879. His first wife was Eliza Newport,
who died in East Baton Rouge Parish, having two daughters, one, Mary, who
married Dr. T. L. Mills, and the other, Susan, who married Mr. G. C. Mills, the
two sisters having married brothers. The husbands and wives are both
deceased. His second wife, whose maiden name was Eunice Lilly, passed her
entire life in East Baton Rouge Parish. Of the children the elder was Sallie,
who died at Denver, Colorado, at the age of forty years, she having been the
wife of Albert S. Pettit, who is at a hardware merchant in East Baton Rouge
Parish; Walker C., of this review, is the younger of the two children.
In well ordered private schools in his native parish Walker C. Young acquired
his earlier education, and was Supplemented by his attending Southwestern
University at Clarksville, Tennessee and Denver University, in the City of
Denver. Colorado. He was nineteen years of age when he completed his
university studies, and thereafter he remained on the old home plantation, in
the general supervision of which he continued to be associated, and also was
identified with a local mercantile business, until he was elected clerk of the
court and ex-officio recorder of East Baton Rouge Parish, his election having
occurred in 1916 and he having assumed office in June of that year. The high
popular estimate placed upon him arid his administration in this dual office
was significantly shown in 1920, when he was reelected, without opposition, and
also in the election of 1924, when he was again without opposing candidate and
received the full vote of his native parish. He has his official headquarters
in the courthouse at Baton Rouge, and in this city has au attractive home at
201 Drehr Avenue, though his legal residence is still maintained on the old
home plantation of 800 acres near Port Hudson, a property which he owns and in
the maintenance of which he takes much pride and interest. He is influential
in the local councils and general activities of the democratic party, and he
and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church. In the time
honored Masonic fraternity, with which his father likewise was identified, his
affiliations are with Zachary Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; Zachary Chapter, R. A.
M., both of which are established in the Village of Zachary; Plains Commandery
No. 11, Knights Templars, at Baton Rouge; and Jerusalem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, in the City of New Orleans. He is affiliated also with Capital Lodge
No. 29, Knights of Pythias, and Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490. B. P. 0. E. Mr.
Young takes loyal interest in all that concerns the civic and material welfare
of his native parish and home city, and is actively identified with the Baton
Rouge Chamber of Commerce. In the World war period he served as a member of
the draft board of East Baton Rouge Parish and was active in the advancing of
all local patriotic movements.
In June, 1893, at Baton Rouge, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Young and
Miss Olive M. Young, of distant family kinship, she likewise having been born
and reared in East Baton Rouge Parish, a daughter of Joseph T. and Lydia
(Ronaldson) Young, the latter of whom is deceased and the former of whom is
living retired in the Village of Zachary. Joseph T. Young has served as clerk
of the court of East Baton Rouge Parish, and two terms as sheriff of this
parish. Mrs. Walker C. Young received good educational advantages, including
those of Fay's Institute at Baton Rouge, and she is a popular figure in the
representative social circles of her native parish. Mr. and Mrs. Young have no
children.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 63, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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