Robert R. Young (politician) explained

Robert R. Young was an American from Grant County, Wisconsin—sometimes reported as being from Wyalusing^[1] —sometimes as from Hazel Green.^{[2] [3]} who served a single term in the 1849 2nd Wisconsin Legislature as a Whig member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Grant County.

Background

In 1843, he married Lucinda Stiles, daughter of David Stiles and Elizabeth Cummins Stiles. By 1859, he, she and the husband she married "several years after his death" were all dead and buried in the same cemetery in Hazel Green.^[4] In 1847, Young was nominated for Grant County tax assessor,^[5] and was elected along with almost the entirety of the Whig ticket that year.^[6]

Notes and References

1. State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848 - 1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999), p. 125.
2. Holford, Castello N. History of Grant County, Wisconsin: Including Its Civil, Political, Geological, Mineralogical, Archaeological and Military History, and a History of the Several Towns Lancaster, Wisconsin: The Teller Print, 1900; p. 163
3. Butterfield, C. W. History of Grant County, Wisconsin, Containing An Account of its Settlement... etc. Chicago: Western Historical Association, 1881; p. 504
4. "David Stiles--A Centenarian" The Fire Lands Pioneer Vol. IX (June 1868). Norwalk, Ohio: Fire Lands Historical Society, 1868; pp. 66-67
5. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83859023/1847-grant-county-wisconsin-whig-convent/ "Proceedings of the Grant County Whig Convention"
6. Holford, pp. 180-181