David W. Youtster

            DAVID W. YOUTSTER, farmer and fruit-grower, was born in Harrison County, Ind., May 26, 1837, son of William and Sarah (Rogers) Youtster. The former, a native of Kentucky, came to Indiana in 1800, and was one of those hardy pioneers who made ‘the wilderness to rejoice and blossom as the rose;’ the latter was of Irish origin, and came to the Untied States while quite young, first settling with her parents in Pennsylvania, but subsequently moved to Indiana, and settled in this county, where she died in 1882.

David W., the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm, and received a common-school education. He was married August 1, 1871, to Nancy B. Cunningham, a daughter of Samuel Cunningham, Esq. Three children were born of this marriage, viz: Thomas H., born June 22, 1872; David W., December 1873; James E., September 13, 1882. Mr. Youtster owns 156 acres of fine land, well improved. It is located on the Ohio river, about three miles above New Amsterdam, and about forty acres of it are in fruit, mostly apples, comprising all the finest of apples last year.

He is a member of the Odd Fellows, New Amsterdam Lodge, No. 650; also a member of the Masonic Order of Mauckport Lodge, and he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church at Beechwood. Politically he is a Republican, and one of the foremost and most substantial farmers of his township.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana by John M. Gresham & Company, 1889. Part 2, page 196.