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JOHN YOUNG
John Young is one of the outstanding figures in the industrial life of Welland county, and as a business man and citizen has become one of the important industrialists of Welland county.
Mr. Young was born on November 12th, 1882, in Hawick, Scotland, and is the son of John and Mina Smith Young, of Hawick, Scotland. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city up to the time he was sixteen years of age, when he served his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at Hawick for a period of five years, then he attended the West of Scotland University of Glasgow, Scotland, taking up electrical engineering and in that line worked in that section of Scotland and England. He was working at his profession when he was employed on the other side together with R.T. Turnbull, a celebrated and widely-known metallurgical engineer, to come to Canada where he arrived in 1907. Mr. Turnbull erected the first electrical furnace ever built and operated both in Canada and the United States. Mr. Young has had a wide experience with electric furnaces. In 1914 he started his present plant in a modest way in the making of equipment for industrial electric furnaces. The building now occupied is of brick construction, 50×130 feet, and twenty men are employed in the plant.
He was married in 1909 to Miss Jemima B. Sommerville, of Hawick, Scotland. He has been the chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board in Welland, of the Board of Education; and been on the High School Board for the past eight years. His hobby is flowers, and he is a member of the Horticultural Society. He is now the president and manager of the Volta Manufacturing Company, Limited, General Consulting Engineers, of Welland, Ont., and is engaged in the manufacture of electric Steel furnaces, electric brass furnaces, electric alloy furnaces, electric furnace equipment and control, electric heat treating furnaces, electric carbonizing furnaces, electric babbitt and white metal furnaces, electric foundry riddles, electric winches and capstans, carburizers and heat treating salts, etc., and electric water heaters.
Mr. Young is a man of wide experience and training in the field of engineering, and his technical knowledge and skill has placed him in the forefront of men in his line, and his remarkable success is not entirely genius, but rather the result of sound judgement and experience.
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
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