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Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician)

b. 1831?

Owingsville, Kentucky, court clerk, attorney, U.S. marshal, police judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas I. Young and Elizabeth Young. Married to Mary R. Bell Young in Bath County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1856. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Studied law with Judge Thomas B. Monroe, Sr., in Frankfort, Kentucky. U.S. Marshal in Bath County. Attorney in Owingsville in 1860. Police judge of Owingsville in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bath County from 1861 to 1863. Clerk of the Bath Circuit Court from 1862 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 1st Division, p. 109B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath, Owingsville, p. 1.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Fayette County Marriages, p. 7 of 29 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 47.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 137.

KYR-0001-017-0065.

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Young, Van B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206955 (November 12, 2026).

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