Background
He was born in Hamilton in Lanarkshire to miner William Young and Helen Wilson.
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John Young
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At the age of thirteen he became an apprentice engineer, and he went to sea two years later. In 1865 he settled in Sydney, where he worked a number of jobs before purchasing a hotel around 1869. A Sydney City Councillor from 1879 to 1893, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney in 1885, but he was defeated in 1887.
He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1892, where he remained until his death in Sydney in 1893.
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Nationality
Scottish