Andrew W. (Andrew White) Young

Born in Carlisle, New York, in March 1802, Andrew W. Young worked as a teacher and store clerk before moving into journalism. In 1830 he began publishing the Warsaw Sentinel, and a few years later he edited and combined papers in Genesee County, building a reputation in New York's reform-minded press.

Young was linked with the antislavery movement in western New York and later lived in Ripley, where the 1860 census listed him simply as an author. After relocating in 1868 to Red Wing, Minnesota, he returned to New York to draw on Judge Elial T. Foote's large historical collection while preparing his best-known local history.

That work became History of Chautauqua County, New York in 1875, preserving a wide range of regional stories and records. He also wrote instructional books on government and constitutional law for families and schools, showing his long interest in public education as well as history. Young died on February 17, 1877, and was buried in Warsaw, New York.