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YOUNG, John Preston<\/strong>, public official; born Chulahoma, Miss., April 18, 1847; French and Scotch-Irish descent; son of A. W. and _____ (Smith) YOUNG<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, Presbyterian minister; his maternal grandfather, Ensign John SMITH<\/strong>, and great grandfather, Lieut. Francis SMITH<\/strong>, served in the Sixth Virginia regiment of the continental army, and survived the war; received primary education under the private tutorship of his father; entered the Confederate service in Sept., 1864, joining Co. \u201cA,\u201d Fourth Tenn. Infantry, as a volunteer, but was not regularly enlisted, and remained until Nov. 10, 1864, including a brief service at Gen. Hardee\u2019s headquarters in the Georgia campaign; in Nov., 1864, he was regularly enlisted in Co. \u201cA,\u201d Seventh Tenn. cavalry, Lieut.-Col. W. F. TAYLOR <\/strong>commanding, and served until the close of the war with Forrest; he was in the battles of Campbellville, Lawrenceburg, Lynnville, Columbia, Hardison\u2019s Mills, Rally Hill, Hurt\u2019s Crossroads, Spring Hill, Franklin and many other engagements; after the war he returned to Memphis, Tenn. going thence to Oxford, Miss., where he attended the University of Miss. for two years; then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1872, and began practice in Memphis, Tenn.; in 1888 he was elected a magistrate of Memphis, and served about fourteen years, doing the greater part of the civil business of the city; member of Confederate Historical Association and Camp No. 28, United Confederate Veterans, the oldest Confederate organization in the South, dating back to 1867; member and elder of the Presbyterian church; judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis YOUNG, John Preston, public official; born Chulahoma, Miss., April 18, 1847; French and Scotch-Irish descent; son of A. W. and _____ (Smith) YOUNG; father\u2019s occupation, Presbyterian minister; his maternal grandfather, Ensign John SMITH, and great grandfather, Lieut. Francis SMITH, served in the Sixth Virginia regiment of the continental army, and survived the war; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4416,4419],"tags":[4356,150,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-8312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-y","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-smith","10":"tag-taylor","11":"tag-young","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8313,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}