Source: History of Whiteside County, IL, edited by Charles Bent, Morrison, IL  1877
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin, Tampico Area Historical Society
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AMOS YOUNG was born in Madison county, New York, in 1815, and settled in Portland in 1836. In 1864 he moved to Iowa. He married Miss Sophia EAST, and their two children, Gertrude, and Joseph, reside in Iowa.