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the corner of Commerce and Prather streets.
Mr. Young was pastor of this congregation
two years, was Presiding Elder of Dallas
district four years, and filled for six years
the same position in the adjoining districts,
which districts included the cities of Corsicana,
Weatherford, Fort Worth, Sherman,
and Gainesville. He traveled over his districts
before the days of railroads by private conveyance,
and made as many as 7,000 miles
per annum.
He was born in Trigg county, Kentucky,
August 7, 1827, being one of four children
born to Daniel F. and Marilla Young (nee
Ingram), natives of Kentucky. The paternal
grandfather was a South Carolinian, who took
part in the Revolutionary war, and afterward
settled'in Kentucky, and died near Canton,
in that State. The maternal grandfather was
the first settler at Ingram Shoals, Kentucky,
on the Cumberland river, and his death occurred
at that place. Daniel F. Young was
a tanner by trade, and about 1829 removed
to Saint Helena parish, Louisiana, and in
1833 to Port Gibson, Mississippi, and died,
and was buried at Brandywine Springs, near
that place. His wife, Marilla (Ingram) Young,
the mother of the subject of this sketch, died
in 1878, was buried at Dallas, Texas, in the
Masonic cemetery. Marilla street of Dallas
has been named in her honor.
Rev. W. C. Young was partially reared
in Mississippi and Louisiana, but the most of
his elementary education was obtained in
Trigg county, Kentucky. He was strictly
self-educated, having lost his father when
onlysix years of age, his mother having been
left in straitened circumstances. As the
years went on, he, by hard study and close
application to business, arose from poverty to
affluence, and from comparative obscurity to
distinction in his profession. It has beenjustly said of him that " he is a man of clear
head, sound judgment, discriminating mind,
independent thought, persevering energy, and
superior talents."
Mr. Young entered the ministry January
28, 1849, near Paducah. Kentucky; was for
two years a local preacher, and for three years
a member of the Memphis Conference. In
November, 1853, he moved to Little Rock,
Arkansas, and had charge of the first Methodist
Episcopal Church South of that city,
for one year. He then resided successively
in Washington, Camden, Magnolia and Columbia
of the same State, going in 1851 to
Bastrop, Louisiana. The following year he
went to Monroe, Louisiana, then in 1863 was
appointed in charge of Moreau street church,
New Orleans, and in 1864 to Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. In 1865 Mr. Young was appointed
Missionary Chaplain for the Arkansas
Confederate Cavalry, and for some time
was in the field. He was mustered out of
the service in General W. L. Cabell's command
at close of the war, the same year, at
Wildcat Bluff, Texas. He soon after came
to Dallas, and immediately became identified
with church work here, continuing until
November, 1883, when he was put on the retired
list. He has since that time devoted
some attention to real estate, realizing some
handsome profits on investments.
He was married near Camden, Arkansas,
October 16, 1857, to Miss Mary S. C. Pipkin,
a native of Alabama, a daughter of Rev. John
F. and Caroline Pipkin. Mr. Pipkin was a
native of South Carolina. When a child his
parents moved successively to Georgia, Alabama,
Arkansas, Louisiana, and Beaumont,
Texas, in 1849. While a resident of the latter
place he served three terms as County Judge
of Jefferson county, and at the time of hisdeath, October 28, 1890, at the age of eighty-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/959/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.