John Edwin Young (1855 - 1926)
Born at Stratham (NH); died at Exeter (NH).
Lawyer, jurist.
Photograph by unknown artist.
Presented to the State, dated unknown.

Young was educated at public schools and at Coe Academy (Northwood, NH; now Coe-Brown Northwood Academy), before graduating from Dartmouth College (Class of 1878). For the next two years (1878/80) Young worked on the family farm. Then he began to read law with the firm of Marston & Eastman, at Exeter. Young did not complete his law studies before taking off to travel in the American South and West. He did not return to Marston & Eastman until 1889, and he was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1890.

Young joined the firm of Marston & Eastman in 1890, and he stayed with the firm and its successor firms (Eastman, Young & O'Neill, then Young & O'Neill) until August 1898. Then Young was appointed an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (served August 1898 - April 1901). In 1901 Young was made an Associate Justice of the State Superior Court (served April 19901 - January 1904). In 1904 Young was named (for a second time) Associated Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and he stayed on the bench until he retired (because of age) in 1925. During the last year of his life, Justice Young served as Chairman of the State Tax Commission. He died June 14, 1926.

References: "New Hampshire Necrology", Granite Monthly vol. 58 no. 7 (July 1926); H. H. Metcalf, ed. New Hampshire Notables (1919); Who Was Who in America, 1897 - 1942 (1943).