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Young Family Papers, 1851-1906

 Collection
Identifier: MH 242

Scope and Content Note

The Young Family Papers contain correspondence, financial and personal accounts, letters to family members, and ships' papers of this Maine family. The collection has been divided into five series.

Series I. Francis E. Young Papers contains transfer of goods notices, business-related and personal correspondence, cash accounts records, itineraries, and some journal entries.

Series II. Frank E. Young Papers contains personal correspondence and shipping articles. Most of these letters were sent while Frank was aboard the Yumuri ship.

Series III. Joseph A. Young Papers contains accounts of expenses, bills and receipts, business-related and personal correspondence, contracts, an examination of the crew by the Vice Consulate of the United States, payment receipts, insurance documents, and a note of protest. There are also some maritime-related ephemera, such as a circular for the Seamen's Institute, a notice to shipmasters, a blank charter party, and a catalog of ship chandlery and stores.

Series IV. General Family Correspondence contains correspondence between members of the Young family and to extended family members such as brother- and sister-in-laws.

Series V. Other Ships' Papers contains freight bills from the Forest City and Lewiston Steamers that were owned and operated by the Portland Steam Packet Co., outside any discernable relation to the Young family's involvement in shipping.

Dates

  • Creation: 1851-1906

Creator

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Biographical Sketches

Francis E. Young was born in 1829, in Bridgton, Maine, to John and Sophronia Young. He married Elizabeth Uln and had one daughter with her, Susie Young. He was an accomplished ship captain, mastering several ships such as the Sarah and Walpole, and sailing all over the world, from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro. He died on May 12, 1856, after a voyage to Rio and was ultimately laid to rest in Yarmouth, Maine, that same year.

Joseph Young was Francis E. Young's older brother, born in 1825, in Bridgton, Maine, to John and Sophronia Young. He married Mahala Young (b. 1830) and had three children with her: Frank E. Young, Grace H. Young, and Joseph A Young. Like his brother, Joseph was a ship captain, mastering the barks Abbyla, Eureka, and P.C. Merryman and the ships Enoch Talbot, and Samuel Fales. His papers and correspondence make up the majority of this collection. He passed away on July 8, 1905 and was laid to rest in Yarmouth, Maine.

Frank E. Young, the son of Joseph and nephew of Francis, was born in 1858 at sea on a ship his father was working on. It appears that he neither married nor had any children throughout his life and the date and place of his death is unknown. He was, however, a ship captain like his father and uncle, mastering the ships J.B. Brown and Yumuri.

Extent

2.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Young Family Papers contain correspondence, financial and personal accounts, letters to family members, and ships' papers of this Maine family.

Series List

SERIES I. Francis E. Young Papers

SERIES II. Frank E. Young Papers

SERIES III. Joseph A. Young Papers SERIES IV. General Family Correspondence

SERIES V. Other Ships' Papers

Physical Location

Phillips Library Stacks

Provenance

This material was purchased in 1934.

Bibliography and Related Collections

Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010.

Processing Information

Collection processed by James King, March 2016.

Subject

Title
YOUNG FAMILY PAPERS, 1851-1906
Author
Processed by: James King; machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Phillips Library Repository

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