MICKELWAIT & YOUNG, grain dealers at Macedonia, is one of the leading and solid business firms of that place. The elevator, having a capacity of 30,000 bushels, was built by Mr. T.J. YOUNG (the junior member of the firm) and T.J. EVANS. The present firm has 100,000 bushels of grain annually; also does a large flour and coal business. Mr. YOUNG is the business manager at this place, while Mr. MICKELWAIT resides at Glenwood, Mills County.

Mr. YOUNG was born in Peru, La Salle County, Illinois, February 8, 1855, a son of Nason Young, a native of Ireland, and of Susanna (Kirby) Young. Nason Young settled in La Salle County in 1845, long before the day of railroads, and for a number of years was engaged in the lumber trade. The first business in which our subject engaged was in 1878, in grain, in which he was in partnership with his brother. Then, removing to Omaha, he was employed in meat canning for a year. In 1880 he came to Macedonia resuming the grain trade. He is an experienced and popular businessman, and has taken an active interest in the welfare of the community; has served on the school board nine years. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Lodge No. 421, I.O.O.F., having filled all the chairs.

He was married in 1887, at Bloomington, Indiana, to Miss Lizzie Belle Pitman, who died July 19, 1888.