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Title
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Hiram Young
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Description
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File contains information on Hiram Young (1812-1882), a pioneer black wagon-maker of Independence, Missouri. Native of Tennesse born into slavery and buying his own freedom in Lafayette County, Missouri as a mechanic, moving to Independence in 1850 as a carpenter and wagon-maker involved in freeing other slaves, and building a planing mill on the site of his old shop destroyed in the Civil War there.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Hiram Young
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Description
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File contains typescript biography of Hiram Young, drawn mostly from acquaintances and family.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Ex-Slave Was a Success in Early Independence
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Description
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Biographical article with photo about Hiram Young (1815-1882), a wagon-maker and ex-slave in 19th century Independence, Missouri. Young is described as "one of the richest men in Jackson County" by 1860 and "one of the area's first successful businessmen." He also helped to start a school for black children in Independence and to bring the African Methodist Episcopal Church there. "Young School opened in 1874 under the direction of the Independence School District. It was replaced with a new building in 1934, and it remained a blacks-only school until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate in 1954. It later housed special education classes but was closed in 1979 and now is a warehouse for the district's food service program."
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Date
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1986-02-23
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Missouri Stories from the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Collection of short stories from the Santa Fe Trail in Missouri, including mentions of a "integrated hotel in Independence" and early Jackson County Black entrepreneur Hiram Young.
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Date
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2020-10
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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In Search of Furs and Freedom: African-Americans on the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Review of experiences of African-Americans along the Santa Fe Trail including James Pierson Beckwourth, former slave Emily Fisher who operated a hotel in Independence, and Hiram Young, also a former Missouri slave who operated a thriving business of freight wagons (p. 14).
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Date
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2004-08
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Hiram Young (1812?-1882), a free black businessman of Independence, Missouri, manufacturer of thousands of "wagons and ox yokes for the Santa Fe and immigrant trades."
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
