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in the Office of Register of Wills, Philadelphia. The available 

 history of the Youngs is given b\- Mr. Rhoads in his prefatory 

 pages, and he raises certain points, which he thinks ought to be 

 answered, such as the date of the botanist's birth and death, 

 and his subsequent career as a scientific man. 



The writer, following out a clue given on page ix of the reprint, 

 has been able to supplement the known facts about William 

 Young, Jr., and these facts are given in what follows. It is 

 mentioned in the prefatory note of the reprint, the existence of 

 William Young's Burying Ground at Fifty-second Street, one 

 square west of Darby Road (Woodland Avenue) known as Leech, 

 or Gaul, Burying Ground. As this locality is not far from the 

 writer's home, a visit was paid to it on June i8, 1916, when it 

 was discovered that the bodies of members of the Leech and 

 Young families had been removed six years previously to Arling- 

 ton Cemetery by Eugene Yerkes, undertaker at 71st and Wood- 

 land Avenue, Paschal ville. Thomas L. Smith, who had moved 

 in 1892 into the old road house built by John Leech in 1800, 

 known as Sorrel Horse Tavern, still standing at 5123 Woodland 

 Avenue, West Philadelphia, gave the information about the 

 abandonment of the burial ground and the removal of those 

 buried in it. John Leech was brother-in-law to William Young, 

 who built his tavern in connection with an older house started 

 by Johan Johansen, a Swede, in 1719. This old house is still 

 standing and the old tap room is used as a kitchen by Thomas L. 

 Smith, the present occupant. Calling up Mrs. Yerkes, the widow 

 of the undertaker, she informed me that the bodies had been 

 removed by Eugene Leech, an undertaker, living at 7127 Wood- 

 land Avenue, and not by Eugene Yerkes, her husband. Calling 

 up Eugene Leech by telephone the writer ascertained that William 

 Young was one of his family, that his body had been carefully 

 removed and reburied in Bethany Section, Arlington Cemetery. 

 He further stated that his father was Dr. H. K. Leech living at 

 185 East Plumstead Avenue, Lansdowne, and that he could give 

 me information about the family tree. A visit to Lansdowne 

 revealed the fact that Dr. Leech's son, Frank R. Leech, now 

 connected with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 



