Young, George E. (George Edwin), b. 1833.

George Edwin Young was born in Massachusetts in 1833 to Darius Franklin Young and Abigail Young. He later lived in the Grant Township of Douglas County, Kansas. On the night of August 20, 1863, Young lodged at the Johnson House in Lawrence, Kansas enroute to Lecompton, Kansas for hired work with his horse-drawn mowing machine. He woke on the morning of August 21 to an attack on Lawrence by William Quantrill's guerrilla band, which burned the town and killed many of its citizens. Young survived the raid and wrote of it two days later in a letter to his father.

From the guide to the Letter from George E. Young, August 23, 1863, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)