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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.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 63.
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