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Son of Omega and Nancy (Stayton) Young.
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From Find A Grave Member # 47268660 Tammie Morgan:

Pleasant Twp. -
WILEY W. YOUNG, lawyer, Georgetown, was born in Lewis Township, this county, May 13, 1834. His father, Omega Young, was a native of Tazewell County, in Southern West Virginia, were he was born in 1798. He came to Ohio in 1816, locating at Higginsport, Brown County. He subsequently learned the shoe-maker's trade at Cincinnati, and followed that at Higginsport till 1830. He then removed to a farm in Lewis Township, where he still resides. At one time in his life, Mr. Young was a minister of the Christian denomination. Mr. Young's mother, was Nancy Stayton, a native of Lewis Township. She was the daughter of Jacob Stayton (an Englishman by birth and a native of New Jersey) and Mary Wise, a cousin of Henry A. Wise, Governor of Virginia. Our subject was the first son and fourth child of a family of fourteen children, eleven of whom are living. He was reared on the farm in Lewis Township, obtaining his early literary education in the district school, and subsequently attending the High School, at Felicity, Clermont Co., Ohio. He was a farmer and a school teacher in early life. In 1856, he commenced the study of law at Georgetown, with Hanson L. Penn, Esq., remaining with him till his admittance to the bar, in 1858. He soon after opened an office in Georgetown, and has been in constant practice since. He was a law partner of Judge D. W. C. Loudon for ten or twelve years, and in 1879 formed a partnership with W. S. Whiteman. The firm at once attained and enjoyed a successful law practice. In 1871, Mr. Young was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts, and has also practiced some in Kennedy. His political views have been strongly Republican since the organization of that party. Mr. Young was married Jan. 14, 1858, to Mary E. Graves, a native of Kanawha County, W. Va. Six children have been given them, two living - Elizabeth and Wiley W., Jr. In 1847, Mr. Young accompanied his sister to Felicity, Clermont County, on a visit. While there he met his great-grandmother, Martha Chaffant, who was then one hundred and six years of age (and lived fifteen months longer); his grandmother, Tabitha Chaffant, aged seventy-eight (and lived to be eighty-eight or eighty-nine years old); his aunt, aged forty, who with himself and sister, represented four generations. Mr. Young's grandfather, Fountain Young, was with Gen. Harrison, and suffered death at the battle of Thames in 1813.

Source: The History of Brown County Ohio - Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 50