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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

N. YOUNG, Port Washington; one of the early settlers and leading druggists of Ozaukee Co.; is a native of Belgium, born in 1834 ; he came to the United States with his parents in 1851, and came direct to Port Washington; he helped his parents on the farm four years, then clerked in the store of Young & Kaehler two years, after which he had charge of the branch business of B. -Blake, at Blakeville, until the spring of 1864; he then returned to Port Washington, and carried an a drug business in partnership with W Audier for about four years, at the end of which time he sold his interest to his partner, and soon after embarked in the drug business alone. He was married in November, 1860, to Miss Theresa Wunderle, a native of Ohio, born April 31, 1839; they have nine children living-Lizzie T., Rosa I., Clara H., Edward N., George A.., Anna R., Frances A., Emma A. M. and Amelia.
Source : History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies, its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the constitution of the United States.; Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, 644  pgs.