From the memoirs of Frank Dumm:
"The big double-log house--the Old Young House--was probably built soon after 1800. At first there was likely a rough log cabin, which served as a pioneer home until the old double hewed-log house was constructed. It was built double, so that the older Youngs, James and his wife Ann, might occupy one part, and the son, John, and his wife, Jane Alexander, could have the other part. It was probably built before John and Jane were married, but with that event in view. This was one of the largest and best built houses of its day in that frontier settlement, west of the Allegheny river. They must have had financial means above the average settler who "came west across the mountains" and settled in the forests of the Allegheny Valley, to be able to build such a house, even though only a double log house. The father, James Young, was born in 1747, and lived until May 1819, when he died at the age of 72 years, which was a good old age in those days of strenuous living and hard labor incident to pioneer life in that period. James Young was a man of military age during the Revolutionary War. Whether he was ever a soldier in the American forces--if he was over here then--we do not know definitely. But his descendants feel sure that he was not on the Tory side, for very few Scotch-Irish Presbyterians sided with King George."
"The big double-log house--the Old Young House--was probably built soon after 1800. At first there was likely a rough log cabin, which served as a pioneer home until the old double hewed-log house was constructed. It was built double, so that the older Youngs, James and his wife Ann, might occupy one part, and the son, John, and his wife, Jane Alexander, could have the other part. It was probably built before John and Jane were married, but with that event in view. This was one of the largest and best built houses of its day in that frontier settlement, west of the Allegheny river. They must have had financial means above the average settler who "came west across the mountains" and settled in the forests of the Allegheny Valley, to be able to build such a house, even though only a double log house. The father, James Young, was born in 1747, and lived until May 1819, when he died at the age of 72 years, which was a good old age in those days of strenuous living and hard labor incident to pioneer life in that period. James Young was a man of military age during the Revolutionary War. Whether he was ever a soldier in the American forces--if he was over here then--we do not know definitely. But his descendants feel sure that he was not on the Tory side, for very few Scotch-Irish Presbyterians sided with King George."
From the memoirs of Frank Dumm:
"The big double-log house--the Old Young House--was probably built soon after 1800. At first there was likely a rough log cabin, which served as a pioneer home until the old double hewed-log house was constructed. It was built double, so that the older Youngs, James and his wife Ann, might occupy one part, and the son, John, and his wife, Jane Alexander, could have the other part. It was probably built before John and Jane were married, but with that event in view. This was one of the largest and best built houses of its day in that frontier settlement, west of the Allegheny river. They must have had financial means above the average settler who "came west across the mountains" and settled in the forests of the Allegheny Valley, to be able to build such a house, even though only a double log house. The father, James Young, was born in 1747, and lived until May 1819, when he died at the age of 72 years, which was a good old age in those days of strenuous living and hard labor incident to pioneer life in that period. James Young was a man of military age during the Revolutionary War. Whether he was ever a soldier in the American forces--if he was over here then--we do not know definitely. But his descendants feel sure that he was not on the Tory side, for very few Scotch-Irish Presbyterians sided with King George."
"The big double-log house--the Old Young House--was probably built soon after 1800. At first there was likely a rough log cabin, which served as a pioneer home until the old double hewed-log house was constructed. It was built double, so that the older Youngs, James and his wife Ann, might occupy one part, and the son, John, and his wife, Jane Alexander, could have the other part. It was probably built before John and Jane were married, but with that event in view. This was one of the largest and best built houses of its day in that frontier settlement, west of the Allegheny river. They must have had financial means above the average settler who "came west across the mountains" and settled in the forests of the Allegheny Valley, to be able to build such a house, even though only a double log house. The father, James Young, was born in 1747, and lived until May 1819, when he died at the age of 72 years, which was a good old age in those days of strenuous living and hard labor incident to pioneer life in that period. James Young was a man of military age during the Revolutionary War. Whether he was ever a soldier in the American forces--if he was over here then--we do not know definitely. But his descendants feel sure that he was not on the Tory side, for very few Scotch-Irish Presbyterians sided with King George."
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