St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
A Remarkable Birthday An
niVerSary.
FIVE GENERATIONS UNITE IN CEN
TENNIAL OBSERVANCE.

ne DdHBol- ME- w my anu CouIiCi
has an extended account of the cele-
bratiOn of the one hundredth birthday
anniversary of Mrs. Mary Young, in
that city September 3, spoken of last
week. The account says:
The gathering was as remarkable III
other ways as III the great age to which
she has lived. There were seated at
one table representatives of five gen
erations, viz: Mrs. Young her son,
Elijah, seventy-siX years old his
daughter, Mrs Lang; her daughter,
Mrs. HObsOn, and the young child of
the latter.
Mrs. Young is the mother of nine
boys and four girls, every one of whom
lived to a good age, married and had
children, and out of thirteen there are
nine now living, all but one of whom
were present, the oldest being eighty
years of age and the youngest fifty
seven. The average of her nine living
sons and daughters is nearly sixty
nine years, and all are able to attend
to their daily occupation.
Mrs. Young is the daughter of Sam
uel jackson, who served in the Revolu-
tionary war and ut Bunker Hill. The
gun he used on that occasion is now in
possession of his grandson, Samuel K.
jackson, who was present at the gath
ering and hale and hearty at the age
of eighty. He represented Brunswick
i'll the state Legislature in lS76-S, but is
now n resident of Plainticld, n. j.
His brother, Obadiah jackson, of Man
chester, y. H., sevemty-eight years old,
WAS also present.
Mrs. Young was the youngest OF
eight children and was born at Lee, y.
H., Sept. ,, 1883. When about seven
teen years of age she married Benia-
min Young, a son of Rev. Winthrop
Young, the tirSt-settled minister at
Canterbury. The latter had five sons
and five daughters, and Otliciated ut
the marriage of every one of them.
His wife lived to he ninety-siX years
old. a time after marriage Benjamin
and Mary Young moved to Wheelock
VT, then to Waterford, VT, thence to
st. Johnsbury, VT, and thence to
! Calais, arriving at the latter place
about thirty years ago. In that city,
the husband, Benjamin, died at the
age of about seventy seven years, and
few years since the widow, Mary
Young, moved to Bangor.
Benjamin and Mary Young had
thirteen children. The oldest, Deb
orah, married Chas. Adams and set
tied in Illinois where she died at the
age of seventy-siX years. The oldest
son, Loren w. Young, of st. Johns
bury, VT, was present, and, though
eighty years of age, is active and
strong. He enlisted in the LIST Vermont
cavalry in 1861 when he was fifty eight
years old and served until November,
1864, and was wounded by a sabre cut
at Hanover in June, 1868, when he was
sixty years old and in active service.
Obadiah, who was nearly the same age,
also served in the army, and died in
1870 when about siXty-fOur years of
age. Elijah and Abigail are twins,
aged seVenty-slX years. The former
looks like Il very young man, though
he is great-grandtather and all -four
generations met with his mother.
Abigail married Appleton Webb, and
now lives in Minnesota, but was not
able to attend ut this gathering. Mary
married Andrew Metcalf of Bucksport,
and died in 1913.
Benjamin, seventy years old, is still
one of the most active business men
down east, carrying on extensive lum-
Der business i'll NOvia Scotia and resid-
ing at Calais. VIM. H., sixty-eight
years old, is widely known ill connec-
ton with the Exchange hotel ut Calais,
which he managed many years, but
recently leased to other parties. Win
throp, siXty-siX years old, resided
many years in Calais, but is now one
of the prominent citizens of Mime
apolis, being president of the Farmers
and Mechanics Savings bank, having
about one and one half millions of de-
pOsits, and vice president of the North
| Western National bank. He was Il
few years ago the democratic candi-
date for governor of Minnesota, and
has been very active and successful
man. Jackson, siXty-fOur years old, is
a resident of Bangor, and well known
to our people. John l.. died in Min
nesOta when fOrtytive years old
| Maria NJ, fifty mine years old, is also {,
resident of Bangor, and the wife of g
w. Spratt, Esq. Milo F., tifty-seven
years old, has cattle ranch in Ne.
braska, where he resides.
Among others present, besides those
named, was Rev. +. G.. Page of Rich
mOnd, Me-, nephew of Mrs. Young
Mr.. and Mrs. 6. w. Lang and their son
! Chester of Island Pond, Vt; Mr.. and
! Mrs. f. F. Hobson of Island Pond,
Vt; Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Young and
son of Waterford, Vt; Regina F
Stevens of st. Johnsbury, daughter
of Loren Young; Ada NJ. Young OF
Charleston, VT, and Cyrena NJ. George
of Manchester, n. H., daughters oi
Elijah Young; A. ID. Bemis, of Me
chanic Falls, with his wife, also a
daughter of Elijah Young; Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Spratt and family of Ban
gOr ; Mrs. Nirgie johnson, with whom
her grandmother lives Mrs. Tickhor
Miss Matte Young, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. a,
Curran, and Mrs. Willis NJ. lIaycock
all of Calais.
Mrs Young received the company
and knew readily all whom she had
ever seen, her mind being apparently
as clear rs ever and her memory excel
lent, and she can read without glasses.
Before dinner, Benjamin Young called
the assembly to order and expressed
the pleasure he felt that So good 4
mother should live 50 long. and thai
her children, even to the fifth genera.
ton, should gather from all section,
and travel great distances to do honor
to her one hundredth birthday. 1t wa,
an occasion for JOY and thanksgiving
and he called on Rev. f. g. Page t.
offer prayer. Mr.. Page remarked upon
his great pleasure in meeting his ven
cradle aunt, and offered feelin.
prayer that her declining years nigh
be peaceful and happy as the occasion
that marked the beginning of hel
second century of life. After the din
ner the most remarkable event was the
singing by Mrs. Young of an old song