Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-07
POLLY YOUNG Is DEAD.
A Noted Woman, Known by ali Old Set
tiers i'm the West. Passes Away.

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On December 81, 1895, Mrs. Polly
Young, older sister of Edwin Tyler of
this city, died at Adams, Illinois,
after short illness. All old settlers
of Barton county will remember Mrs.
Young and learn with regret of hel
death. The Wichita Daily Eagle of
January End, pays deceased the fol-
lowing tribute:
Mrs. Polly Young of this city died day before yes
| terday at Adams, Ill. This Information has been
received by the Eagle from her brother. Mr.. Ed
win Tyler of Great Bend No details are given.
| In the death of this lady wonderful woman. in
many respects, has passed from the of action
| to better land-a land that surely has reserved
reward for her on account of her many virtues. In
| the business world she well known Mrs.
Lease in the political world. She was. however.
a very different type of woman.
| For twenty years more the name of Polly
Young was q synonym of enterprise. especially rs
factor,in western town building. During the war
| her husband, II. Young. who captain of
volunteers, gave up his life in active service She
was then young widow. but she went to the front
and by the aid of magnificent brain and most
tender heart she rendered powerful aid in reliev-
ing the distress of sick and wounded soldiers.
Some stories told of her beautiful heroism in
the of charity that ought to give her an
eternal place in the history of the nation and in
the hearts of the people. After the war was over
Mrs. Young came west and in 1872 she settled on
claim and thus commenced her pioneer life. From
farming she went to specializing and everything she
touched turned into money. She built houses in
Wichita in the early seventies and made them pay
handsome income. She then went to Wellington
with the railroad and put up houses there
that brought high rents and from there she went to
Caldwell, where she had similar success. When the
restless spirits of the frontier pushed west and
started Kiowa, Mrs. Young went in on an early
and put up business buildings there that paid
for themselves ia rents in short time. From
Kiowa she went to other western Kansas cities
where she a leader in town building. From
thence she went to Colorado. where luck attended
her. When Oklahoma opened to settlement her
enterprising soul followed the great invasion and
her entry into a town meant a swarm of carpenters
and builders about her. She started in at Reno
City and within few days she had more than one
business house built and occupied. There she was
| the Queen of Enterprise and the commercial and
trade bodies organized there paid her homage.
When that town began to decline and its rival, Ell
Reno proved be the rising star of the Canadian
, | valley. Mrs. Young the ground and set
more carpenters and builders to work. She did not
STOP there. When the strip opened she entered
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| There pleasant superstition about Polly
| Young and it will not detract from the honors to
| which her memory is entitled to relate it. Nearly
all the Spectators in western Kansas believed her
to be mascot. They placed their money in the
towns in which she built and avoided the towns
which she avoided. They honestly believed in this
superstition. Town companies were aware of it
| and the very first thing they did was to give Mrs
Young some inducements TO build there. Thus
she made money going aud coming. as the saying
is It was the same way with her property
Whoever rented her property prospered, they be-
lieved they would prosper, they insisted on pros
pering and they did prosper, because they insisted
in developing energetic hadll the superstition OF
the belief or the prophecy or whatever it may be
called.
| Mrs. Young was good woman and every letter
in the word good should be capitalized and empha-
sized The word, in the used here. covers
every virtue and every trait and every impulse
| characteristic of noble euterprising woman. She
| had heart that was delicateiy tender and a dis
position that sweet and sympathetic. AL
| though she was business woman there moth
ing of the man-woman or the newman about her.
[ Her religious views were her own, and they were
her not for the sake of fashion for the pur-
pose of impressing other people. She did not hold
them because she wanted the public to believe that
she was gifted with superior intellectually. She
held them because she believed in them and If she
held any other views and did not believe in them
she could not be eulogized for them. Her friend
ships were strong aid nobody will learn of her
death with greater sorrow than those who knew
her intimately when she had a vacation from bust
ness. She loved society. but it was the pink
tea society the society of the faddist, but the
society of people who held general ideas in har-
mony with hers. May her good soul rest in peace.
| The board OF county commissioners
is in session this week. The most of
the time thus far has been taken up
| witt approving of bonds of the newly
elected county and township officers.