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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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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
