“YOUNG, Anthony Obediah, physician; born on farm near Butler, Montgomery Co., Ill., Dec. 25, 1868; son of William Albion and Mary Ellen (Ware) Young; educated in district schools, Butler, Ill., Bunker Hill (Ill.) Academy, Brown’s Business College, Jacksonville, Ill., Bryant & Stratton Business College; M.D. Beaumont Hospital Medical College, 1893; married Houston, Ill., Sept. 15, 1893, Allie Holt.

Began Mar. 31, 1893, as a general practitioner, making a specialty of surgery.  Member St. Louis Medical Society, Missouri State Medical Association, American Medical Association.  Democrat.  Baptist.  Recreations: Hunting and fishing.

Office 3906 Olive St.  Residence : 8136 Page Ave.”

Source:  The Book of St. Louisans, by Albert Nelson Marquis, A.N. Marquis and Co., Chicago, 1912, page 656