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Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician)

b. 1816? d. 1863-01

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Maria Thompson Young. Father of Elizabeth Young, Stephen A. Young, John Young, Milton Young, M. E. Young, Adison Young, Thomas B. Young, Alice Young, Stanley Young, Arabell Young, and Mary E. Young. Planter in Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Planter in Henderson County in 1860. Owned thirty-eight enslaved persons in 1850 and forty-one in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 493. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 41. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 9-10. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 335. Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), p. 697.

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Young, Milton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206224 (November 12, 2026).

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