SALT LAKER, 80, CONSULTS DOCTOR ONCE IN LIFETIME
Adolph J. Young smiled slowly when asked his secret of longevity and drawled, "Well, I've been treated by a doctor only once, and that was when I had smallpox in 1902."
Mr. Young who celebrates his 80th birthday Sunday, is on the job daily at Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Freight Depot, 2nd South and 7th West, as warehouseman, a position he has held 30 years. Aside from vacations, he doesn't recall having missed a day's work.
A grand nephew of Brigham Young, LDS Church colonizer and president, Mr. Young was born in Salt Lake City October 15, 1864, son of Brigham Hamilton and Frances G. Young. He worked on the railroad 10 years in Sanpete County as a young man and met his wife to be, Arseneth Bradley there.
She died in 1926. They had eight sons, seven of whom are living: Bradley L. Young, Denver; Brigham H. and George O. Young, Price; Rawlins B. and Lawrence J. Young, Salt Lake City and Maj. Frank G. Young, serving in the south Pacific. He also has 23 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
"I'm going to retire at the end of the war," he commented,"--and I guess there will be plenty to do--if I feel like doing it--around the house and gardens."
Open house honoring the octogenarian will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Young, 253 Belmont Street, where Mr. Young resides from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
Adolph J. Young smiled slowly when asked his secret of longevity and drawled, "Well, I've been treated by a doctor only once, and that was when I had smallpox in 1902."
Mr. Young who celebrates his 80th birthday Sunday, is on the job daily at Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Freight Depot, 2nd South and 7th West, as warehouseman, a position he has held 30 years. Aside from vacations, he doesn't recall having missed a day's work.
A grand nephew of Brigham Young, LDS Church colonizer and president, Mr. Young was born in Salt Lake City October 15, 1864, son of Brigham Hamilton and Frances G. Young. He worked on the railroad 10 years in Sanpete County as a young man and met his wife to be, Arseneth Bradley there.
She died in 1926. They had eight sons, seven of whom are living: Bradley L. Young, Denver; Brigham H. and George O. Young, Price; Rawlins B. and Lawrence J. Young, Salt Lake City and Maj. Frank G. Young, serving in the south Pacific. He also has 23 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
"I'm going to retire at the end of the war," he commented,"--and I guess there will be plenty to do--if I feel like doing it--around the house and gardens."
Open house honoring the octogenarian will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Young, 253 Belmont Street, where Mr. Young resides from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
SALT LAKER, 80, CONSULTS DOCTOR ONCE IN LIFETIME
Adolph J. Young smiled slowly when asked his secret of longevity and drawled, "Well, I've been treated by a doctor only once, and that was when I had smallpox in 1902."
Mr. Young who celebrates his 80th birthday Sunday, is on the job daily at Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Freight Depot, 2nd South and 7th West, as warehouseman, a position he has held 30 years. Aside from vacations, he doesn't recall having missed a day's work.
A grand nephew of Brigham Young, LDS Church colonizer and president, Mr. Young was born in Salt Lake City October 15, 1864, son of Brigham Hamilton and Frances G. Young. He worked on the railroad 10 years in Sanpete County as a young man and met his wife to be, Arseneth Bradley there.
She died in 1926. They had eight sons, seven of whom are living: Bradley L. Young, Denver; Brigham H. and George O. Young, Price; Rawlins B. and Lawrence J. Young, Salt Lake City and Maj. Frank G. Young, serving in the south Pacific. He also has 23 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
"I'm going to retire at the end of the war," he commented,"--and I guess there will be plenty to do--if I feel like doing it--around the house and gardens."
Open house honoring the octogenarian will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Young, 253 Belmont Street, where Mr. Young resides from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
Adolph J. Young smiled slowly when asked his secret of longevity and drawled, "Well, I've been treated by a doctor only once, and that was when I had smallpox in 1902."
Mr. Young who celebrates his 80th birthday Sunday, is on the job daily at Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Freight Depot, 2nd South and 7th West, as warehouseman, a position he has held 30 years. Aside from vacations, he doesn't recall having missed a day's work.
A grand nephew of Brigham Young, LDS Church colonizer and president, Mr. Young was born in Salt Lake City October 15, 1864, son of Brigham Hamilton and Frances G. Young. He worked on the railroad 10 years in Sanpete County as a young man and met his wife to be, Arseneth Bradley there.
She died in 1926. They had eight sons, seven of whom are living: Bradley L. Young, Denver; Brigham H. and George O. Young, Price; Rawlins B. and Lawrence J. Young, Salt Lake City and Maj. Frank G. Young, serving in the south Pacific. He also has 23 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
"I'm going to retire at the end of the war," he commented,"--and I guess there will be plenty to do--if I feel like doing it--around the house and gardens."
Open house honoring the octogenarian will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Young, 253 Belmont Street, where Mr. Young resides from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
-Salt Lake Tribune, October 14, 1944, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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