Judson Obediah YOUNG
1939 - Bought property in Wilbraham, Mass.

"In 1939 Judson O. Young bought this property (72 Mountain Road, Wilbraham, Mass.) from Clair Weeks. Clair Weeks and Mary Weeks, presumably his wife, owned a business in Springfield, the Week’s Leather Store. They had bought the lot in the early 1920s and had built this house, almost certainly designed by an architect, possibly the same architect who built 7 Maple Street. This was one of the early houses in Wilbraham built as a suburban residence for people working in Springfield. In business in Springfield too, Judson Young was a ladder maker and lived in the city in 1930 with his wife Ruby and their children Elmo, Dorothy, Bertha and Elizabeth. Ruby died the year that they bought this property from the Weeks, and Judson then remarried to Elsie B. Young, who then continued to live here through 1961, by which time she had become a widow. Young’s company grew to manufacture wood eaves troughs, and to sell other building items such as roofing, insulation, copper flashing, porch and lawn furniture, and asbestos siding. The presence of the Weeks and the Youngs in Wilbraham is part of the suburbanization of the town on former agricultural land for commuters into Springfield."
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Massachusetts Historical Commission



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