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David Youngken's grave, 1884 Courtesy Tom Myers

David Youngken was born on April 4, 1804, likely in Bucks County, PA, the son of John and Anna Maria (Essig) Youngken. 

He was baptized in infancy by Rev. Mensch, with Jacob and Susanna Funk serving as his godparents. The pastor gave the parents baptismal certificate written in German. 

David entered into the rite of marriage with Matilda Green (Sept. 8, 1809-1871). 

Together, they produced one known son, Josiah G. Youngkin. Perhaps there were other children.

When the United States Census was made in 1850, the Youngkins dwelled on a farm in Richlandtown, Bucks County. Their unmarried son Josiah was in their household that year.

Matilda passed away at the age of 62 on Nov. 30, 1871. 

David lived on for another nearly 13 years. The federal census enumeration of 1880 shows him in the household of his married son. 

He was gathered in by the grim reaper of death at the age of 80 on Aug. 8, 1884. The remains were laid to rest in Richlandtown Union Cemetery in Bucks County. In its "Richlandtown" column, the Perkasie (PA) News Herald reported that he had been the "owner of the well known nursery and fruit farm lying on the limits of the town..." 

A report about this branch was written by Gustavus N. Hart of Haddonfield, NJ and published in the Younkin Family News Bulletin edition of Christmas 1937. 

Their grave markers stood erect and legible when photographed by Tom Myers, who posted them on the Find a Grave website and graciously has allowed his images to be used in this biography.

~ Son Josiah G. Youngkin ~

Son Josiah G. Youngkin (1827-1907) was born on Feb. 6, 1827 in Richland Township, Bucks County. 

He completed two years of study at the Quakertown School and then became a teacher himself, spending a dozen years as an educator. 

In 1853, at the age of 26, he married Maria Helen Minnich (1831-1897), daughter of Joseph and Sarah Minnich of Allentown. 

Their nine known offspring were Oswin A. Youngkin, Charles Eugene Youngken, Milton A. Youngken, Alice H. Youngken, Ida Stull, Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Younken, Titus C. Youngken, David J. Youngken and John Ferdinand Youngken. 

Five years into the marriage, Josiah is known to have acquired his father's farm at Richlandtown, where he "engaged in fruit growing, and his botanical garden is filled with the choicest of flowers," said a profile in the 1887 History of Bucks County, edited by J.H. Battle. In May 1885, the Perkasie News Herald reported that he was "building an addition to his house. He has torn down part of the old one." 

They are known to have held a dance at their residence in July 1893. In July 1897, the couple hosted a visit from Titus C. Youngken of Philadelphia. 

By 1899, the Youngkins lived in Springfield, Bucks County. He later showed his father's German-language baptismal certificate to a friend, Gustavus N. Hart of Haddonfield, NJ, and told him stories about the early days of the Revolutionary War era. 

Sadness blanketed the family when Maria Helen passed away on Dec. 16 or 22, 1897.

View of Perkasie, 1894 - Courtesy Library of Congress

The widowed Josiah spent his final years in Richland Township, Bucks County. He made news in the Philadelphia Times in July 1899 when laying claim to several millions of dollars worth of property in Luzerne County, which he said had belonged to his grandfather John. The article said that Josiah "lives in a frame mansion, near Applebachville, on the road leading from Richlandtown to the Bethlehem road, in Bucks county." It added that he "has in his possession an old Bible which belonged to his father, David, and gives the date and place of birth, and also the marriage certificate of his great-grandfather, John Youngken." Around that time, he leased his farm to Dr. A.G. Langler of Easton for purposes of mining ore. 

Having been afflicted with hardening of the arteries and a ruptured aorta, he died at the old homestead on Jan. 25, 1907, just 19 days shy of his 80th birthday. Interment was in Springfield Cemetery. Milton Youngken of Richland Township signed the death certificate. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. An obituary in the North Penn Reporter spelled his name "Chessiah" but a similar one in the Perkasie News Herald spelled it correctly. Both versions said that "In his younger days he taught school and was also a school director at one time in Richland township." The News Herald added that he "was a respected and life-long resident near Richlandtown." A notation of his death was made in the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Springfield.

Profile in the History of Bucks County, edited by J.H. Battle - courtesy Google Books

Son Oswin A. Youngkin (1855-1901) was born in Nov. 1855. In about 1881, he tied the marital cord with Alice H. (Aug. 1860- ? ). They bore two known children, Margaret H. Moore and Charles O. Younkin, who sadly died at the age of two in 1885. In 1900, the Youngkins lived with Oswin's widowed father in Richlandtown, Bucks County, with him earning a living as a farm laborer. The Perkasie News Herald once called him "one of our well-known citizens." Alice's fate is not yet known. By 1900, Oswin married a second time to Ella Paisley (June 10, 1854-1934), daughter of Joseph and Margaret Paisley. Evidence suggests that she brought relates into the household by the names of Paisley and Fluck. In 1901, he was employed as a conductor by the Quakertown and Eastern Railroad. During the first week of July 1901, he was overcome with heat and suddenly died a few hours later. Said the News Herald, "His remains were interred at Springfield on Sunday amid a large concourse of friends and relatives." Ella outlived her husband by 33 years. Her last address was with her daughter Margaret 1426 West Venango. Suffering from heart disease and hardening of the arteries, she passed away in her residence at the age of 76 on June 22, 1934. Daughter Margaret  signed the Pennsylvania death certificate. Burial was in Northwood Cemetery.

• Granddaughter Margaret H. Youngken (1882-1965) was born in about 1882. She wed Thomas Moore Jr. (1880- ? ). The family lived in Philadelphia, with offspring including Thomas P. Moore, Katherine Youngken Moore, Margaret E. Spandau and Emma A. Roush. Thomas earned a living in 1910 as foreman with a dye business. Their marriage fractured in separation by 1920 followed by divorce. United States Census record for 1920 show Margaret heading a household and working as a bookkeeper for a factory. She was employed in 1930 as secretary of a baseball club. She died in Hackensack, NJ on Dec. 19, 1965, with an obituary appearing in the Hackensack Record.

  Great-grandson Thomas P. Moore ( ? - ? )

  Great-granddaughter Katherine Youngken Moore (1908- ? ) was born on Aug. 29, 1908. She was baptized at the age of two months in Philadelphia's North Presbyterian Church.

  Great-granddaughter Margaret E. Moore wed (?) Spandau.

  Great-granddaughter Emma A. Moore ( ? - ? ) was a 1937 graduate of Bucknell University. On July 7, 1937, she entered into marriage with Charles S. Roush ( ? - ? ), son of Rev. Dr. Charles S. Roush of 45 Mallery Place, Philadelphia. Dr. Roush officiated their nuptials. Charles also was an alum of Bucknell and at the time of marriage was employed at Niagara Falls by the American Sales Book Company.

Son Charles Eugene Youngken (1856-1943) was born on March 10, 1856 or 1857 in Allentown, Lehigh County. On Sept. 11, 1884, he was wed to Marian W. Wilkinson (Sept. 12, 1856-1934), daughter of George and (?) (Wallace) Wilkinson. The wedding was held in the Grace Baptist Church, Philadelphia, by the hand of Rev. Russell H. Conwell, and announced in the Bucks County Intelligencer. Three sons they bore together were Dr. Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Eugene W. Youngken and Dell Wallace Youngken. They initially resided in Quakertown, Bucks County. The family made news in the fall of 1902 when they entertained the widow of Charles' brother Oswin. During that era, he was a rural mail carrier, "having been appointed one of the first carriers appointed by the government to service from the Quakertown office," said the Allentown Morning Call. He resigned in 1917, and they relocated to North Wales, Montgomery County, PA, where they stayed for the remaining 17 years of their lives together. He earned a living over the years as a self-employed florist, first in Quakertown and then in North Wales. Their address in the 1920s was on 207 South Main Street. He held memberships in the Quakertown lodge of the Masons and the Trinity Lutheran Church of North Wales. Sadly, Marian was burdened with chronic heart problems and became bedfast in February 1934. She died four months later at age 77 on June 28, 1934. The widowed Charles moved by 1936 to the home of his son Heber in Massachusetts. In his later years, Charles was disabled with gangrene of the left leg, hardening of the arteries and senility. Death swept him away at the age of 86 on Aug. 5, 1943. Son Heber, of Arlington, MA, provided vital details for the Pennsylvania death certificate. Burial was in Green Lawn Cemetery. An obituary in the Lansdale Reporter said that he "had been in failing health for about a year... His wife has been dead for a number of years."

Heber Wilkinson Youngken Jr., with a portrait of his father. Courtesy Younkin Family News Bulletin, January-March 1993

• Grandson Heber Wilkinson Youngken (1885-1963) was born in 1885 in Richland Township, Bucks County. He built a substantial career in medicine and at his death was widely considered the world's leading authority in "pharmacognosy" -- the science of drugs derived from plant and animal sources. Heber grew up in Quakertown and began his working career with druggist Howard R. Moyer. In 1905, he received a graduate of pharmacy degree from Medico-Churiagical College in Philadelphia. He then studied biology at Bucknell University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1909 followed by two years of medical education at Medico-Churiagical, where he was named chair of Botany and Pharmacognosy. He continued in this role for four years until the college merged with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, at which point he was named assistant to Professor Henry Kraemer, chair of the department of botany and pharmacy. Heber went on to earn a master of arts from Bucknell in 1912 and a master of science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1913, where after conducting extensive research he was conferred with a doctorate in philosophy. Heber contributed substantially to publication of botanical literature, starting with Youngken's Pharmacentucal Botany and Notes on Laboratory Work, followed by more than 100 research papers and two more books. He joined the Odd Fellows, American Pharmaceutical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Academy of Natural Science and several related fraternities. Circa 1943, he resided in Arlington, MA, where he was professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. One of his published works, A Textbook of Pharmacognosy, went into more than 60 printings. He served for 40 years with the U.S. Pharmacopeia Revision Committee and was botanical editor of the U.S. Dispensatory. By the end of his career he was a fellow of the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, International Society for Plant Taxonomy and Botanical Society of America. Heber tied the marital cord with Clara Eastman ( ? -1967). The four children they produced together were Heber Wilkinson Youngken Jr., Eugene W. Youngken, Marion Gowdy and Flora McCarty. Sadly, he suffered a heart attack and died at Symmes Hospital in Arlington on July 19, 1963. Clara outlived him by four years. Death spirited her away on Sept. 6, 1967. The Boston Globe ran an obituary.

  Great-grandson Heber Wilkinson Youngken Jr. served in 1963 as dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island. His residence in 1967-1994 was Peacedale, RI.

  Great-grandson Eugene W. Youngken ( ? -1994) - He was a 1947 graduate of Bucknell University and in 1950 earned a master's degree in fine arts in directing from Yale University. From 1950 to 1959, he chaired the theatre department of Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ. Then in 1959 he was tapped to be director of theater and coordinator of fine arts at Colby Junior College of New London, NH. He held that position until retirement in 1986. Said the Concord (NH) Monitor, "His first production was The Matchmaker which was held in the new Sawyer Center at the school. In 1969, he was on sabbatical and traveled to England and France where he studied European Theater Production. During the summers he became involved in theater at the New London Barn Playhouse and the Weston (Vt) Playhouse [and] was also involved in other regional summer theaters." Eugene did not marry and made his dwelling on Route 114 in South Sutton, NH. He was president of the Friends of the Old South Sutton Schoolhouse and held memberships in the South Sutton Homesteaders, Sutton Historical Society, American Theater Association, American National Theater and Academy, College and University Concert Managers and American Educational Theater Association. He died at home in Oct. 1994.

  Great-granddaughter Marion Youngken (1912-2013) was born on July 29, 1912 in Philadelphia. She was an alumna of Arlington High School and received a bachelor of arts degree from Simmons College in Boston. She wed George Hopper Gowdy (1911-1979). Their three children were George "Douglas" Gowdy (1940-2007), Robert E. Gowdy and Constance Smith. The Gowdys spent many years in Winchester, MA. George was a member of the First Congregational Church, master of the William Parkman lodge of the Masons, president of the New England Society of Professional Engineers and a member of the Winchester Country Club. In retirement they lived at Silver Lake near North Conway, NH. Sadly, at the age of 67, George died without warning on Jan. 3, 1979. An obituary appeared in the Boston Globe. Marion survived for another three-plus decades. Said an obituary, Marion "enjoyed volunteering with the En Ka Society in Winchester, the community hospitals and other community groups. She was an active member of the First Congregational Church in Winchester. Marion loved traveling and playing Bridge [and] enjoyed many years at their second home in Madison, NH." Death enveloped her on Feb. 7, 2013. Their remains lie in eternal repose in the local Wildwood Cemetery. She was survived by seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

  Great-granddaughter Flora Youngken ( ? -1971) - She married Dr. William C. McCarty Sr. (1913-1980). The couple's two sons were William C. McCarty Jr. and Richard Dennis McCarty. William was a native of Arlington, MA and a 1931 graduate of Arlington High School. He was bestowed with a bachelor of arts in 1935 from Harvard College and then a medical degree from Harvard in 1939. He went on to serve as chief of medicine and chief of staff at Symmes Hospital, Arlington. He also was affiliated with Mount Auburn Hospital and Sancta Maria Hospital in Cambridge. In the 1960s and early 1970s, they resided in Arlington, MA at 156 Jason Street. William was a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology and American Society of Internal Medicine. Noted the Boston Globe, "He was a coordinator-consultant for the merger of Winchester, Choate and Symmes hospitals. He also was a member of the audit committee of Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank and the advisory board of Harvard Trust Co." Flora passed away on Jan. 11, 1971. Her services were held at the Pleasant Street Congregational Church in town, with an obituary printed in the Globe. The widowed William married a second time to Elizabeth T. (McManus) MacKenzie. She brought three adult stepchildren into the union, Christopher MacKenzie, Hugh MacKenzie and Mary P. Grant. He died in Boston on Jan. 20, 1980. His funeral mass was sung at St. Agnes Parish, Arlington, with interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. At the time, both of his sons made their homes in Arlington, MA. 

• Grandson Eugene W. Youngken (1888-1965) was born in 1888. As a teen, after graduating from Quakertown High School, he enrolled at the State Normal School at West Chester, PA. He was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1906, on the recommendation of Congressman Irving P. Wanger. In announcing the news, the West Chester (PA) Daily Local News said that Eugene "is a genial, intelligent young man, and quite popular among the other students, and will rapidly win his spurs." How long he attended West Point is not yet known, but he did not graduate therefrom. He did go on to earn a degree from Medico-Churiagical College and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He entered into matrimony on Oct. 10, 1908 with 22-year-old Ida "Lillian" Alls (1888- ? ), daughter of George Alls. The wedding was conducted in Delaware, by the hand of Rev. G.L. Wolfe. The couple did not reproduce. At the age of 21, circa 1909, he earned a living as a druggist. Eugene went on to a 25-year career as a "medical representative" of the pharmaceutical giant, Eli Lilly & Company. The couple settled at Camp Hill near Harrisburg, PA and were there in 1943. After retiring from Lilly, he performed "special work" for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Circa 1951, they relocated to Longport, NJ, at an address of 2913 Ventnor Avenue, and stayed for good. Sadly, Eugene died on Sept. 7, 1965. His remains were returned to his native Bucks County for funeral rites led by Very Rev. Arnold W. Mintz, dean of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Burial was in North Wales' Green Lawn Cemetery. Obituaries were published in the Harrisburg Evening News and Atlantic City (NJ) Press.

• Grandson Dell Wallace Youngken (1889- ? ) was born on June 15, 1889. He was baptized at the age of three months, on Sept. 22, 1889, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Quakertown. Dell grew up in Quakertown and was a lifelong bachelor. As an adult, he was employed as a druggist for the pharmacy of William C. Thompson and lived in the YMCA Building in Coatesville, Chester County. He held memberships in the Sahler-Sedan post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Clifford O. Mullin post of the American Legion. On the fateful day of July 9, 1928, suffering from heart failure leading to chest pain ("angina pectoris"), the 39-year-old Dell dropped dead at work. Interment of the remains was in North Wales Cemetery as part of a military funeral. An obituary in the Coatesville Record said he was "well known." 

Son Milton A. Youngken (1858-1925) was born on Valentine's Day 1858. He was married to Lenora S. Sloyer ( ? -1927). They were the parents of 10 -- Gertrude Irene Hanson, Laura May Taylor, Bessie Marion Keller, George W. Youngken, Paul R. Youngken, Norman Augustus Youngken, Josiah Abraham Youngken and Walter Ambrose Youngken in addition to two who died young. Milton is known to have dwelled in Richlandtown in 1907. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy and died suddenly at the age of 66 on July 28, 1925. His obituary appeared in the Allentown Morning Call. Rev. E.H. Trafford officiated the funeral service. Lenora lived for another two years. Having been in poor health and confined to bed, she died of paralysis on May 31, 1927. The funeral took place in the Springfield Church, also known as Pleasant Hill Cemetery, jointly led by Rev. O.H. Melchor and Rev. Elbert Landis.

• Granddaughter Gertrude Irene Youngken (1881-1918) was joined in wedlock with (?) Hanson.
• Granddaughter Laura May Youngken (1890-1969) wed Charles Taylor. They lived in Richlandtown in 1925.
• Granddaughter Bessie Marion Youngken (1905-1977) was single and resided in the mid-1920s in Richlandtown. She tied the marital cord with (?) Keller.
• Grandson George W. Youngken (1892-1944)
• Grandson Paul R. Youngken (1913-1984)
• Grandson Norman Augustus Youngken (1901-1946)
• Grandchild Josiah Abraham Youngken (1894-1960) dwelled near Richlandtown in 1925.
• Grandson Walter Ambrose Youngken (1896-1967) moved to Bethlehem, PA.

Daughter Alice H. Youngken (1861-1922) was born in about 1861 and grew to womanhood in Richland Township, Bucks County. She may be the same "Alice Youngken" who in 1895 boarded with the family of Edwin Stout in Quakertown and nearly died after accidental suffocation by leaking coal gas. Reported the Cambria (PA) Freeman, "One child was found dead and the rest of the family in an unconscious condition, and it took several hours' work by physicians before they could be resuscitated." Single in 1920, at the age of 59, she lived under the roof of her married, widowed brother Claudius in Philadelphia and undoubtedly helped with his young children. Sadly, she died on March 14, 1922. A notice of her death was published in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. Burial was in Northwood Cemetery.

Daughter Ida S. Youngken (1862-1934) was born on Feb. 23, 1862 in Richlandtown, Bucks County. On April 10, 1898, when she was 36 years of age, she married 37-year-old widower Benjamin Henry Stull (March 20, 1861-1950) of Perkasie, PA, the son of Milton and Mary Stull. The nuptials were conducted by Rev. B.F. Luckenbill in Argus, PA. On their marriage license, she gave her father's first name as "Jesse." Benjamin was a laborer at the time of marriage, having lost his first bride on May 31, 1894. He brought at least two stepchildren into the second union, Erwin Grant Stull and Hilda Bartholomew. The Stulls bore one known son of their own, Robert Youngken Stull. They made their dwelling-place in Perkasie in 1925. Sadly, suffering with the family-wide malady of pulmonary tuberculosis, Ida surrendered to the angel of death at the age of 72 on June 4, 1934. Benjamin passed away in Argus on Aug. 18, 1950. Interment was in Ridge Valley Cemetery.

• Step-grandson Erwin Grant Stull (1891-1970) 
• Step-granddaughter Hilda Stull (1893-1930) was born in 1893. She wed Milton Bartholomew ( ? - ? ). Together, they produced a brood of six. Their residence in 1930 was on North Seventh Street in Perkasie. Grief descended on the family when Hilda contracted a deadly case of tuberculosis and died at the age of 36 on Valentine's Day 1930. Rev. Howard Obold conducted the obsequies at St. Stephen's Reformed Church, with burial in the church cemetery. An obituary appeared in the Perkasie News Herald.
• Grandson Robert Youngken Stull (1902-1934) was born on Aug. 5, 1902. At the age of 19, he was confirmed in membership in St. Stephen's Reformed Church in Perkasie. Then in Nov. 1925, in Elkton, MD, he tied the knot with Geraldine Erney (1908-1932), daughter of Norman Erney of Quakertown. News of their marriage license was published in the Wilmington (DE) Morning News. Robert was a printer, making a residence on North Seventh Street in Perkasie. Two sons born to their union were Robert Stull and Donald Stull. Then in about 1930, he contracted bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis, which was never cured. Geraldine also developed tuberculosis in about 1931, an illness which also lingered to the end. After a year of suffering, she became bedfast and two weeks later passed away on June 15, 1932. An obituary was printed in the Lansdale (PA) Reporter. Rev. John B. Swartz preached the funeral sermon in the Ridge Valley Church. Robert only lived for two years as a widower and sought treatment at sanitoriums in Mont Alto and Hamburg, PA. Adding to his health woes, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the larynx and was forced to quit work. His two young sons were admitted to the Reformed Orphanage at Womelsdorf. Sadly, at the age of 32, having returned from Mont Alto only two weeks earlier, he succumbed to the spectre of death on Nov. 3, 1934. Funeral rites were conducted in Ridge Valley Church, followed by burial in Ridge Valley Cemetery. An obituary in the Perkasie News Herald said that "His wife, his mother and a sister died of tuberculosis within the past few years."

  Great-grandson Robert Stull ( ? - ? ) and his brother Donald lived for a time in childhood in the Reformed Orphanage in Womelsdorf, PA.

  Great-grandson Donald Stull ( ? - ? ) and his brother Robert lived for a time in childhood in the Reformed Orphanage in Womelsdorf, PA.

Daughter Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Youngken (1864- ? ) was born in about 1864. She was deceased by 1925 and possibly much earlier. 

Son Claudius Titus "Claude" Youngken (1866-1925) -- also known as "Titus C. Younkin" -- was born in about 1866 in Richlandtown, Bucks County. He relocated to Philadelphia in young manhood, securing employment in 1888 as a conductor for the Philadelphia Traction Company's cable streetcars, hired by superintendent James Bricher. His first assignment, for six years, was on the Union Line horse-drawn cars. Later, he moved to the Jefferson and Master Street Division. He remained in this occupation for the balance of his life. In 1890, Titus was joined in wedlock with Ida Virginia Crouse (Aug. 20, 1874-1911), daughter of Robert and Margaret (Fleet) Crouse. The known offspring of this couple were Elwood Claudius Youngken, Robert Crouse Youngken, Laura May Youngken and Helen V. Pentasuglio. Titus is known to have suffered a lacerated finger at work in December 1889 when caught in a chain while he was engaged in coupling cars. Reported the Perkasie News Herald in 1892, "Mr. Youngken says he likes the city well and does not think he will ever change it for country life again, but we think he may change his mind." The Youngkens often spent weekends visiting his family back home. He is known to have entertained his brother David for a visit in March 1898, some months after the brother sustained major injuries in a local railroad accident. Titus agreed in 1899 to endorse a medicinal product which he had used to help with "catarrh," a 19th century term for a buildup of mucus in the airways. As published in newspapers, he wrote the following: 

I have been troubled with catarrh for the last fourteen years. It was so bad that when I got up in the morning I could not eat anything. I was also subject to fits of dizziness and severe headaches. About one year ago while on duty [at work], I started out on my first trip. After dinner I began to feel very sick at my stomach and had pains in my head. One of the passengers told me to stop the car at the next drug store, which I did, so he went in and bought a box of Ripans Tabules and told me to take one and then handed me the box. I found relief after taking the first Tabule. I am taking them ever since and find them an elegant remedy. The dizziness has left me and also the headache, and it will only be a matter of a few weeks when I shall be cured of the catarrh. I am glad I can say thanks to Ripans Tabules. I shall gladly recommend them to everyone with whom I get in conversation.

On his 20-year work anniversary in March 1908, Titus achieved a singular record for "having traveled on an electric car 200,000 miles or eight times the circumference of the earth," reported the Trenton (NJ) Times. "Since [1888] there have been a number of changes in ownership and superintendent, but Youngken has served through them all. When electric cars were introduced he was put in charge of one and conducted the first electric car over the Jefferson and Master line and since that time has served steadily there." Their final home together was at 3073 Potter Street. Sadly, stricken with pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis, Ida died  at the age of 36 on Jan. 29, 1911. A notice of her death was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her remains were laid to rest in Northwood Cemetery. The grieving Titus moved to 3045 Potter Street. He married again on May 25, 1916 to Blanche Porter ( ? -1918) of 1914 West Glenwood Avenue, the daughter of Edmund and Anna (Kelpatrick) Porter, the mother an immigrant from Ireland. Their wedding was held at the Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church. Blanche was a member of the Anna M. Ross Camp of the Sons of Veterans, Gol. Gus W. Town Council of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Loyal Moose Circle. During their all-too-brief marriage, they became the parents of a son, Claude Youngken Jr., only to learn he was stillborn on Jan. 2, 1918 at the Preston Retreat Hospital. The baby's tender remains were interred in Northwood Cemetery. Claudius' grief was compounded when Blanche followed her infant in death five days later, on Jan. 7, 1918, at the age of 34. Her examining physician at Preston Retreat listed the cause of death as "chronic pancreatitis with possible malignant change [and] obstruction." She also was interred in Northwood, with a notice appearing in the Inquirer. Claudius was wed a third time in 1922 -- to Ida C. Gotorsky ( ? - ? ) -- and lived with his brother David at 2928 Rorer Street. He developed a deadly case of pulmonary tuberculosis at work in the fall of 1925 and underwent X-ray examinations in the Episcopal Hospital. Unable to rally, he died on Oct. 5, 1925. Burial was in Northwood.

• Grandson Elwood Claudius Youngken (1891-1981) was born on Jan. 30, 1891 in Philadelphia. As a young man, he earned a living in Philadelphia as a chauffeur. He was employed circa 1919 with Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company and traveled to France that year to work on a construction project.
• Grandson Robert Crouse Youngken (1898-1958) was born in 1898 in Philadelphia. In the mid-1930s, as the nation was in the firm grip of the Great Depression, Robert joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal work relief program under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provided jobs for unemployed, unmarried men on conservation projects. He was sent to a CCC camp in Vesuvius, Rockbridge County, VA. On April 13, 1936, at the age of 37, he was united in matrimony with 25-year-old Janet Engles Fitzgerald ( ? - ? ), also of Vesuvius and the daughter of McDonald and Bessie Beatrice (Campbell) Fitzgerald. Their wedding was held at Kerr's Creek, VA, officiated by Rev. John S. Cash of the local Baptist church. 
• Granddaughter Laura May Youngken (1901- ? ) was born on Dec. 6, 1901 in Philadelphia. She was baptized in the city's Trinity United Presbyterian Church on Oct. 30, 1902. 
• Granddaughter Helen V. Youngken (1907-2000) was born in 1907 in Philadelphia. She wed (?) Pentasuglio ( ? - ? ).

Son David J. Youngken (1867-1928) was born in July 1867. At the age of about 25, in 1893, he is believed to be the same man who was badly injured in a railroad accident. The Lansdale (PA) Reporter said that he was:

... was well-known to most of the upper end people [and was] employed as a brakeman of a local freight train on the Bound Brook railroad... While in the act of coupling cars at a station a few miles from Philadelphia, he accidentally slipped and fell under the train, and three cars passed over him. He was picked up in a badly mangled condition and taken to the German hospital, Philadelphia, where his left arm was amputated just below the shoulder. His right foot was mashed and he was otherwise badly cut and bruised. The last reports from the hospital were that he was getting along as well as could be expected and if no complications arose from his injuries he would recover.

David in fact recovered and by March 1898 was well enough to travel to see his brother Titus in Philadelphia. While there, said the Perkasie News Herald, he "was suddenly attacked with inflammatory rheumatism, where he remains and is unable to return home." In 1900, at the age of 32, he was a bachelor and shared a home with his widowed father in Richlandtown, Bucks County. He remained in Richlandtown as of 1906 when he opened a new restaurant in town which "is doing a nice business," said the News Herald. As of 1910, he boarded in the Philadelphia home of Samuel and Gertrude Hanson and earned a living as a watchman at an iron works. His final address was in Philadelphia at 2928 Rorer Street, and his final occupation continuing to be as a watchman. He was plagued at the end of his life with chronic bronchitis, rheumatic heart disease and heart failure. David died on June 25, 1928, at the age of 60. Ida Kubiles of the home address was the informant for the official Pennsylvania certificate of death. Interment was in Springfield Cemetery. The 1992 obituary of his great-grandson David E. Youngken, killed in an automobile accident in North Carolina, was published in the Younkin Family News Bulletin (January-March 1993).  

Son John Ferdinand Youngken (1873-1956) was born on April 3, 1873 in Richland Township, Bucks County. He resided near Richlandtown in 1907-1925, and made a living as a shoemaker. John married Clara Ritter (1875-1955). Together they bore a family of five -- Florence Katie Youngken, Edith Helen Lee, William Charles Youngken, Frederick Lloyd Youngken and John Irwin Youngken. Later, their home was in East Rockhill Township near Quakertown, Bucks County. At the age of 82, burdened with heart failure and one or more tumors of the bone, he was admitted to Quakertown Community Hospital. There, he died on Feb. 22, 1956. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The headcount of his survivors was six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

• Granddaughter Florence Katie Youngken (1896-1919) was born in 1896.
• Granddaughter Edith Helen Youngken (1903-1998) married Arthur Lee and lived in Souderton, PA in 1956.
• Grandson William Charles Youngken (1908-1960) settled in Souderton, PA. 
• Grandson Frederick Lloyd Youngken (1912-1988) resided in the mid-1950s in Quakertown. 
• Grandson John Irwin Youngken (1898-1960) made his homeplace in Quakertown in 1956.