Daniel Younkins (1854 - 1939)

Born 27 Jun 1854 in Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Jul 1939 at age 85 in Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Daniel, son of William and Sarah (Hawk) Younkins, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1854. His education was acquired in the public schools and at the Worthington Academy, and he spent all his earlier years on the farm. In 1876 he went to Petrolia, Pennsylvania, as a tool dresser on the oil fields, later became a driller, then a contractor, and finally an oil producer. Occasionally he and his brother John worked in association, and in 1893 a partnership was formed, known as Younkins Brothers, and this has been continued up to the present time (1914). The two brothers have operated extensively in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania and employ from one to six sets of workers. Mr. Younkins is a director in the Farmers' National Bank and the Guaranty Safe Deposit & Trust Company, treasurer of the Craigsville Woolen Manufacturing Company, and a member of the board of managers of the Evans Manufacturing Company. As a representative of Democratic interests he has been a member of the city council fourteen years, and has served as chairman of this honorable body two years. He is a member of the Knights of Malta, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder.

Mr. Younkins married, September 10, 1884, Eva E., born at Worthington. Armstrong county. Pennsylvania, September 12, 1857, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah B. (Kalp) Minteer. They have had children: Sarah Josephine, born February 15, 1887, was graduated from the Butler High School and from the Western College for Women ; Mabel Viola, born November 10, 1888, was educated at Irving College ; William Minteer, born June 6, 1890, was graduated from the Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1914, a Phi Gamma Delta; Victor Daniel, born April 7, 1892, a student in the Washington and Jefferson College, a Phi Gamma Delta; Florence Evelyn, born June 12, 1894, was graduated from the Butler High School in the class of 1913, and is now a student at the Pittsburgh College for Women; Delma Elizabeth, born January 11, 1897, is a student in the Butler High School ; James Kenneth, born May 3, 1900, is a student in the Butler High School.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3., p. 1248-1250)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #63227164