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’s 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; received primary education under the private tutorship of his father; entered the Confederate service in Sept., 1864, joining Co. “A,” Fourth Tenn. Infantry, as a volunteer, but was not regularly enlisted, and remained until Nov. 10, 1864, including a brief service at Gen. Hardee’s headquarters in the Georgia campaign; in Nov., 1864, he was regularly enlisted in Co. “A,” Seventh Tenn. cavalry, Lieut.-Col. W. F. TAYLOR commanding, and served until the close of the war with Forrest; he was in the battles of Campbellville, Lawrenceburg, Lynnville, Columbia, Hardison’s Mills, Rally Hill, Hurt’s 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.
