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Deanne Young is a granddaughter of Paul H. Young, the late famous rod-builder from Detroit. Deanne is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of John Browning, called Captain John, who arrived in College Lands, Va. in 1622 from Gravesend, England with at least two sons, William, 8, and George, 7, and moved to Elizabeth City County. He was the brother of William Browning who came here in 1611 to College Lands, now called Jamestown, and was mentioned as one of the principle men of the colony in 1623. Captain John was a Burgess of Elizabeth City in 1629, a Burgess of Morris Bay in 1632, and a Burgess of Elizabeth City in 1635. He bought and was deeded many hundreds of acres of land. John's son, William Browning, Deanne's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, was born in England in 1615 . He arrived with his Dad to what is now Jamestown in 1622 at age 7. He married in Jamestown in 1645 and had at least one son,probably in 1646, named John. Wiillian Browning recieved 250 acres of land from his father, Captain John Browning, in 1646. He purchased from the Crown (George the Second) 400 acres of land in Amelia County, on the upper side of Bufffalo River. Deanne's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, John Browning, was the son of William Browning. He had at least one child, a son named John Jr. born in 1665 or 1675. Deanne's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, John Jr., married in Jamestown about 1696, and had 7 sons at least, one of whom was Frances Sr, born 1700. Frances,Sr.,Deanne's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, was born in Caroline County, Va., and lived to be 75. He was deeded 250 acres in Spottsylvania County in 1724. In 1735, he was granted 40 acres in St. Mark's Parish in the county of Orange in the Dominion of Virginia, by George the Second "of Great Britain, France and Ireland". A part of Old Orange County became Culpeper County in 1749 and in 1833 a part of Culpeper County became Rappahannock County. The lands patented as above stated were afterwards known as the Browning district. They were located at the headwaters of Battle Run, and on the north side of Gourdvine Creek, parts of the Rappahannock River. In 1747 he was granted 2 tracts, of 100 acres in North Little Fork and 430 acres in Culpeper County. He married Elizabeth Lloyd of Maryland in 1723 and they had 8 children. The first was named Francis Jr--born right away, 1724. The rest were Nicholas, John, Jacob, Edmund, Caleb, Ruth, and Mary. Deanne's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was Jacob Browning, who was born about 1736 in Culpeper, married Eizabeth Bywaters in 1758,and had 14 children, born a year apart except for a one-year break between the two oldest girls, Mary and Sarah. Jacob Browning was one of nineteen men enrolled with his brother,John,in the militia of Culpeper County Va., as a foot soldier in March 1756. His father, Francis Sr., served in the Revolutionary War, too, and managed to accumulate over 900 more acres in his 40-some years. He deeded land to his son Francis Jr. in 1740,in 1741 to his brother John, in 1748, to his sons Francis Jr.and Nicholas, and to his daughters, Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Duncan. Jacob Browning had 14 kids, Samuel, George, Edmund, Jacob, Lloyd, Mary, Sarah, Delilah, Betsey, Thomas,Edith, Jane, Nellie, and Annie. His third son, Edmund, was Deanne 's great-great-great-great-grandfather. Edmund was born in Culpepper County in `1761 and married Sarah Allen of Pottawatamie County, Iowa in 1790. They had 7 children--David, Allen, John,Nancy, Clarissa, Jonathan and James Green. Deanne is descended from the oldest,David, born in 1791. Edmund was a farmer who moved to Tennessee and had and raised his kids there. He lived to be 75 years old and was noted as a fine violinist. One of his sons, John, moved to Salt Lake City and was the father of John Moses Browning, the inventor of the Browning machine gun and so many other weapons he's got more patents for weaponry than anybody else. (The above is all in Su. Or Le. Himmings Statistics at large --Vol.VII p.22: Vol.III, p.128: and Vol.1, pp.139 and 148, as penned in her approved application for DAR status by a great-granddaughter of Jacob Browning, and in "The Chronicles of Border Warfare" by Alexander Scott Withers. Sui. Awaits History or you try to read her writing.) I have the app Deanne's great-great-great grandfather, David Browning, grandfather of Paul's mother, married Vasti West in 1811 and they had 13 children. Mary A. was born in 1828. Mary Browning was Deanne's great-great grandmother. She married Emmanuel Lionberger, a Virginia minister, in 1847, at the age of 19. They had 10 children within the next 22 years, with Deanne's great- grandmother Sarah Alice,called Alice, born in Carthage, Illinois being the last one. All were girls but one--one girl died young and a sister born 4 years later was given her name. John Lionberger, her great, great grandfather, came to Virginia from England and took up hundreds of acres of land. He had to give it up for awhile because the Indians were so bad, but later returned. He got lost in the Blue Ridge moutains and found something that glittered like silver, and was, but he could not find the spot again.It is possible that the Lionbergers were Alsatians of mixed german and french blood, but Alice was convinced that they are of Swiss origin , part of a very numerous family that migrated to Alsace and Lorraine. A great many Lionbergers lived in Berne in 1875 and told a relative of Alice's that their ancestors always lived there.Berne was a Roman camp in the days of the Republic and Empire, and the physical traits of Lionbergers were of latin origin. The Roumanian posessed them even in 1927 in extaordinary degree. In 1927 T..W. Burgess wrote in a newspaper article in the Kansas City Star, "The lecture on the Constitution that Isaac Lionberger (relative of Alice), widely known St. Louis lawyer will give tonight at Westport Junior high school is attracting wide attention in both the Kansas City Bar Association and law school, and several jurists and many students plan to attend.Mr. Lionberger, who was an assistant attorney general of the United States in McKinley's administration and a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in 1904, is being brought here by the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club of Kansas City." Deanne's great-grandmother Alice's oldest sister was 21 years older than her, the next oldest, 17 years older, the next, 15, the next, 13, and then there was Mary Caroline, the one who died young, born 11 years before her, Ollie, 9 years before her, the new Mary Caroline, 7 years before her, Lena, 5 years before her. The four youngest hung out together a lot as old women. All looked alike with big round glasses and stern looks, their hair tied severely in buns. Alice died around 1926. In 1889 Alice married Charles Henry Young, son of Benjamin Young, a retired Great Lakes steamer captain from the Green Mountain area of Vermont, and Margaret. Charles Henry was born in Ontario. He had 3 brothers and 4 sisters, and he was the next to the youngest. When Charles was 5 years old Benjamin decided to bring them all to Michigan where the huge white pines were the talk of all their Canadian neighbors. Six families lived on a mile stretch of woods where the men took up government claims. Charles ' mother took linen sheets and pinned them over clotheslines to make shelters while his father and the sons built a log house. There were no roads, just trails the government had made.The trail they all claimed lay two miles north of bear Lake and 21 or 22 miles north of Manistee. They were on the very edge of where the white pines left off growing and hardwood forest began. There was hardly a pine on Ben's 160 acres- it was hardwood, beech, elm, and maple, mostly sugar maples. The 6 men built the Voss schoolhouse on the next mile trail north of the Youngs, of logs, and half a mile east of their mile, the men built the Pleasanton school.They hewed the logs on four sides and called them blocks, thus building a block school., which they painted barn red. One of the 6 men was John White Allen, a Harvard College professor, and he taught the children there.On the next corner from the Youngs lived Mr. and mrs. Pierce and family-she had brought herlibrary, even the big six-foot cases, with her from New haven and they all borrowed books.Samuel and Marion Arnold from new haven and Harvard taught the Voss school. In 1870 George Hopkins built the first sawmill. In 1871 Charles' older sister , Sarah Ann, joined them with her husband Peter Burwell and their 3 children: lewis, maggie, and future historian Eva Ferrier, then one year old.The government -blazed trail was noe too accurate The men dug a curbed well 90 feet deep at the trail in front of the Young's frame house.A real surveyor found that the well was almost in the middle of the road, and the ox teams and carts had to go around the well until a new one and others could be dug.Just into the edge of the pine and backing Dr. Miller's house was a creek of very cold water. The families called it Bowens Creek and the boys and girls went after trout there. Bear lake was simply alive with fish and Charles and the other boys and girls always brought home all the bass and pickeral they could lug.Charles was told he had light hair and complexion and very blue eyes but he didn't know for sure-the only looking glass they had was 2" by 4" hanging on a log, and older brothers Will and Herman usually used it to shave.Charles swore his skin was black- at least it was when he looked into the mirrored depths of the little bay where the boys always went in their dugout for black bass, sunfish, and bluegill. Charles' father always hunted with his 16-year-old daughter Eliza's husband and if they didn't get one deer they got two. Ben made his own buckshot by pouring hot lead into his bullet molds, leaving it there a minute, then dumping out a brand new shining bullet. When he'd made a dozen Charles gathered them off the floor and put them into a little greasy buckskin bag. The next morning at 4:30 a.m. Ben would go to his son-in-law's and by 4:30 p.m. they came home dragging in their deer.He said he killed 104 deer in his day.The deep woods were alive with squirrels, partridges, and pigeons.The boys shot them by the dozen and the mothers made pot pies of them. Oscar Keiller was the first man in the area to own a team of horses.The others had ox teams and big, high, wheeled and clumsy carts.In the spring from the 19th of march through April and half of may they were all busy with their sugar bush, making powdered cake, stick sugar, and syrup to last till the next march.At first ben's sap containers were nothing but gouged-out troughs. They cut a foot maple into two -foot lengths, split them into two halves then gouged out the center.Then they sat by a maple where the sap from the spike could drop into them. As soon as he could ben made a contraption called a shaving horse. On this he made sap-bucket staves and hauling tub staves, then made the staves into tubs and buckets. They hauled the tubs around on a big hand sleigh, or oxen if there was a good run of sap. Sometimes Charles' mother would come to the sugar camp, bringing a pan of potatoes, a frying pan, and a tea kettle.She'd boil potatoes, fry slices of ham and make tea. On Charles' 18th birthday ben called the boys around the table where he had a chart drawn out. It showed 4 farms-one 40 acres, one 30 acres with a corner ten acres large already given to a married sister, one 40 acres with house and barn, and one 40 acres bordered by the sugar bush.He offered each a farm or $400 cash.The others took the land. Charles, called henry by his dad, took the money to attend Hillsdale College. Native Americans had warned settlers that land north of Bay City , Michigan inland from the Great Lakes Michigan and Huron were wicked swamps filled with man-eating creatures and European explorers avoided the area until the mid-1800's. There were no Indians living in this area when it was finally explored, just wild animals, birds, and insects. The only sign of previous humans were hundreds of arrowheads found at the portage site where the Indians carried their canoes over a small stretch of land between the Manistee River flowing to Lake Michigan and the Au Sable River flowing to Lake Huron. The amount of arrowhead and spear tips suggested either a weapons factory or a large battle at the site. (This information comes from writings by Paul H. Young's cousin, historian Eva Ferrier, who published articles of pioneer life in the Detroit Historical Society's organ, The Michigan Historical Commission, incl. Vol. 36, No. 1, March 1952 ). Eva owned the Covered Wagon Art Shop in Davisburg, Michigan in 1956. An article in The Detroit News, Friday, August 20, 1954, by Jerry Sullivan which includes a large picture of Eva, says,"The open country was calling, and Grandma Ferrier packed up her paints. It was 13 years ago that Eva Ferrier decided to close her studio in the city and come to live on a house by the side of a dusty road. So she left Bloomfield Hills and moved to Davisburg, beyond Pontiac. The robust woman of 84, who has been called "the Grandma Moses of Michigan", said: "I used to want to be somebody, but it got to the point where so many people were coming to the studio that I didn't have a chance to paint. So I went looking for a place I could crawl off to and paint a picture or write a poem without being disturbed." She has failed to find solitude because people still seek out her quiet home. But in that home, on a ridge overlooking a green valley, she has found the peaceful atmosphere she longed for.She said:"When I came out here and saw the weeds and lilacs growing, and the little house under the shade trees, I said'This is the place.' I can sit here on a bench with a cup of coffee beside me and paint for hours. Then I like to go out in the garden and pull weeds, and maybe pick a mess of corn and put it on the fireplace." Working in the garden, she said, keeps her hands supple and sure for her work with brush and palette. The hands themselves are a work of art--strong but sensitive, heavily veined,with tapered fingers and knuckles that show the strain of wringing clothes and tightening fruit jars.Mother of seven and great-great grandmother to five, she has lived a full life, but she has several unfulfilled ambitions. One is to do a large painting of The Last Supper. She began this recently, on a piece of masonite eight feet wide and four feet high."I figured now is the time to do it," she said,"If I'm ever going to do it." She appraises her work with the cold eye of an art critic. "Here's a Bible picture," she says, pointing to a painting of the Good Shepherd. "Part of it's good and part of it isn't." But of her favorite work, a forest scene she calls "Trapper's Paradise", she says frankly:" I'd like to shake hands with the artist that could beat that! It's too good to sell. I'm going to keep it." She gives painting lessons , "when someone comes who really wants to learn. But just between you andme and the fencepost," she adds," not too many want to learn. They haven't got time. Well, in that case, I haven't got time for them, either." It was in another rurals etting , at bear lake near manistee, that Eva ferrier painted her first picture 74 years ago. "An old German professor who came there to find a peaceful setting to paint discovered that I had some talent," she said." He did what he could to develop it, and down at the old Detroit Museum of Art, they finished it off." "This house wouldn't holld all the paintings I've done since,"she said. "I'ves old a few, but most of them I've givne away.I won a prize for a painting when I was 12. And another when I was 82. I think that's a pretty good record.") By the time Eva was 3 in 1873 the Youngs had a frame home and Eva's family moved into the old, log one. The mill had ben built in 1870 so ben got lumber right away.Eva wrote," The nearest water was Bowens creek a mile distant, and Ben made a big hauling tuband set it on the stone boat and hitched Buck and Brindle to it and hauled water, and Grandpa told me not to touch the water or I'd get dirt into it." Charles had to see the world, though, and left Manistee to work for a rich banker in Arkansas, but his wander lust drove him to roam the country as a schoolteacher and college English professor. This wanderlust may in part have come from the fact that Charles was born in a covered wagon in St. Thomas, Ontario, because the father did not want to stop the journey(they were moving and going through Ontario was the shortest route). He met and married Alice in Arkansas, and they had 5 children: Paul, Maybelle, Ben, Irene, and Cy. Alice was very young in spirit and died at age 64 after an illness of 24 hours. She was survived by only one of her daughters , and all three of her sons. The eldest, Deanne's grandfather Paul Holden Young, was born in Cherry Valley, Arkansas on August 27, 1890. Charles Henry was often gone and Alice tried hard to make ends meet, but her youngest child recalls his first 5 years in a house with a roof that leaked and that Alice had pots and pans all over the house to collect the water. She at one point had to let out rooms to boarders and often boarded preachers for tent revivals held across the street, even though they were not the same religion as her. She leaned on her son Paul to father the youngest child, Cy, who was born when Paul was 12, -- Paul had to go fetch the doctor to "hatch" Cyril, the father being " missing". Paul taught Cy to hunt and fish. Cy was enamoured of this big brother who was so skilled in forest-living and conservation. . Cy brags that he saw Paul kill a rabbit on the run at 30 yards with a deer rifle. Paul amazed him with his knowledge of plants, bugs, and animals. A newspaper article from the 1930's states that Alice and her sisters were descended from poet Robert Browning. A very religious woman, Alice did not talk of being descended from the grandfather of John Moses Browning, inventor of the machine gun and other weapons. In her writings, she brags about the sheepskin deeds signed by Lord Fairfax in the Lionberger Family's posession, and how the Lionbergers got here early in the 1600's and owned vast tracts of land. Jacob Lionberger homesteaded a farm near Carthage, Illinois in 1835, coming from Virginia. Emmanuel Lionberger was 10 years old and the grandfather of Paul H. Young. Poor Alice didn't realize that these good genes were going to show up on the family tree below her name, too, and that she had no worries! However one of her sons, Cy, got a degree in engineering, one , Benjamin,co-founded The National Bank of Detroit during the Depression and was its first Vice-President. The bank enjoyed prosperity for decades, and had branches all over Michigan until the 1980's, enabling Ben to live in a home with servants, butlers, maids, elevators, a library, and a model train running the length of the basement of his mansion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. One of Ben's two daughters became an estate attorney. Alice's third son, Paul, became a famed bamboo-rod builder who was enjoying near cult-status when he died around 1960, according to McClane's New Standard Fishing Encyclopedia,by A. J. McClane, executive editor and founder of Field and Stream magazine. (Pages 1127-1128,Library of Congress ISBN 0-517-20336-7) Today Paul's rods sell at collectible prices and his name is on a plaque in every canoe rented out by every livery on his beloved Au Sable River, asking canoers to be mindful of fly fishermen courtesy the Paul H. Young Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Paul H. Young is remembered for many achievements by those who knew him. His son Paul Anthony Young recalls that Paul H. would carve at a peach pit while standing around talking to you and then toss you the carving as he walked away--marvelous little monkeys with tails wrapping around an otherwise hollowed-out pit, with little heads on top and two little monkey hands clutching the tail to the mouth. Paul took a correspondance course in taxidermy because the things he found in the woods interested him. He modified the bamboo rod so that his sons could take them overseas on the plane with them in WW2 by designing a rod of 5 strips of Tonkin cane glued together in such a way as to withstand the pull of salmon and Florida bonefish, not just trout. For traveling, this rod could be broken down into two parts and carried in a metal cylinder--8'5" rods being hard to fit on planes safely. He also invented the strawman nymph fly. A man of many talents, he was a shipyard supervisor in Duluth, Minnesota when he met and courted 17-year-old Marthe Marie Augustine Moisan of Marseilles, France, a pretty, charismatic and charming chiropractor's daughter always dressed in the fashion of the day per Paris. Her father, Gustave Marie Moisan, born in 1873,was 5 foot 9 and a half inches tall with a high forehead, blue eyes, straight brown hair,and an oval face of fair complexion who always had a moustache and often a beard. In her 35 years as a widow Martha never even dated once. Martha knew, how do you surpass a husband like she'd had, a legend who wasn't one when they met as youngsters; someone so much fun they closed shop whenever they wanted to go fishing--the first time, he outfitted her in waders with net and creel and told her to wait there while he took off for a nearby Beaver Dam and she was left alone in the midst of a caddis hatch he hadn't seen coming. She pulled in 16-inchers, 18-inchers, and a 23-inch brown before Paul returned to find her creel poureth over and that had he stayed, they could have had some of the finest fishing of their career.("Trout Magic", page 161, by John D. Voelker, aka Robert Traver, author of "Anatomy of a Murder"; former's ISBN 1-878005-50-2 Cl., and Chauncy Lively, "River People", Riverwatch Newsletter, date not established)) They married when Martha was 19 and had Paul A. Young, their first son, Deanne's father, in 1921 when Martha was 21. They had one other child, son Jack, 2 years later. Paul and Martha bought a wheat farm in Saskatchewan ( he'd run a rice farm in Arkansas for 3 years in his youth) but fled back to the states for the birth of Paul A. because everything was going wrong in the freezing cold area. Paul then got a taxidermist job in Detroit but soon opened up his own taxidermy and then he began to build his own fly rods,and he divided the business, hiring Al Hilde to do the taxidermy.(Adele Halliday, Trout Unlimited Newsletter, archives, Trout Unlimited) Al married Martha's little sister, Helen. Paul was not the first to make the light rod as we know it today, when the name Midge that he first gave it has become a generic adjective to catagorize all split-cane rods with light mountings,measuring under 7 feet and weighing 2 ounces or less. But he was ceertainly the first to take it out of the toy or novelty class and make it the versatile rod it has become.(Page 105, "The Well-Tempered Angler", L.C. catalog card number 65-18755, by Arnold Gingrich, founding editor and publisher of Esquire magazine)

An unnamed book page photocopy about "South bend" says(Page 71)" One of the most famous of South bend's customers was the Paul H. Young Co. in Detroit, Michigan, which purchased blanks from South bend during the years of 1927 and 1928. Paul Young was an outstanding fly tier and fish taxidermist who was just beginnnig to expand into bamboo rods about the time Wes Jordan arrived at South bend. Young designed his own unique taper and had the rods built to his specifications for two years while he set up his own production operation, beginning by creating his own hardware and eventtually milling and gluing his own rods. Through this period Paul and Was became close friends and fishing companions. jordan, the master rod maker, helped Paul develop his rod making equipment and techniques; and Young, the master fly fisherman, taught Wes the intricacis of nymph fishing for brown trout. The first time Jordan ever fished with nymphs was with Young on the Au sable River nera grayling, Michigan, when he caught his very first brown trout. Paul was an outstanding fisherman, especially with nymphs, and he understood browns better than anyone I ever fished with. Paul's wife was darned near as good a fisherman as he was. I think she was the best woman caster I ever saw. I had fished . Paul and Martha's oldest son, Paul Anthony, was Deanne's father. Paul A. Young attended the University of Michigan, majoring in zoology, before joining the war effort. He was a was a major in the United States Army Air Corps in WW2. He entered active duty in December 1942 as a bombardier who flew 48 missions, two of them doubles, in enemy territory, once coming back with no tailgunner under him and once losing two gunners. He recieved Air medal W/1 SOLC GO 1281 Hq 15AF 24 June 1944, Amer Th Rib, EAME Rib W/2 Br Bat Stars. He recieved a Letter of Valor. The most he's said about the war is that you had to bring the B-25 down to 1600 feet to light a cigarette. His sense of humor was great. When he was 86 years old he was ribbed at his gym for wearing mismatched socks."I have proof they go together," he said. "I have another pair just like them at home." It's not that he invented all his jokes but that he never missed an opportunity to deliver them. He, too,was a born naturalist who was an excellent hunter and loved night fly-fishing . He quit fishing in 1986 not because of health failure but perhaps because, having fished with a lot of deceased people from his parents and brother to his two sons, a river ran through it too deeply. He had always kept a life-list of the bird species he saw and in his 70s and 80s traveled to Alaska, The Dry Tortugas, the tip of Argentina near the South Pole, and many other places just to see birds. He saw 9,756 species and was well-known to the Detroit Audobon Society and the Florida Audobon Society, the latter of whom he helped at the Christmas Bird Count for over 25 years.At one point in the 1970's he was the top birder in 4 states, having seen the most species in each. He was highly regarded by the birding world. Like his parents had, he bought a cabin on the Au Sable River in Michigan's Lower Penninsula's northwoods for his children's pleasure. When he was 14 his parents left him and 12-year-old Jack at theirs alone all summer to build a boathouse for their riverboats while they ran the family business in hot Detroit. Paul and Jack kept their food cold in the always 42-degrees spring-fed river, in a basket tied to something so the swift current wouldn't steal it. That cabin was on Main branch Au Sable and the boathouse still stands, the only one on the main stream with moose antlers over the doors they swung the boats out. Deanne inherited the love of nature that had been in the family for generations.She spent most of her youth and early 20's hiking the woods looking for deer, not once coming across another human although she often followed deer trails all day and into the evening.Their cabin was 20 miles from Grayling, Mich. and 8 miles from Lovells. Paul had grown up playing with the children of the men the bridges on the Au Sable are named for--Stephan,McMasters, Wakely. He got his first deer when he was 12--a 12-point buck. When his children were growing up he got himself and them doe licenses and he averaged a doe every 2-3 years at which the freezer would fill with deerburger the children didn't care for. While Deanne didn't mind nailing the black cowbirds that were laying their eggs in songbird's nests, their hatching chicks pushing the smaller baby songbirds out as they hogged all the food, wasting a season of a songbird couple's time, and she killed a few fat porcupines that were eating the bark off the Young's birches leaving the bare wood vulnerable to infestation and disease, and woodchucks that bored through their garden , ripping out all evidence of vegetables and strawberries with their tunnels and holes, she preferred to observe wildlife with her father to killing it and ran out the door after her father every time he went out. Together they'd watch woodcock males do a mating flight, diving down like bombs and spreading their wings at the last second. Paul often returned from walks with tales of baby racoons climbing over each other to get to him from a hole in a tree, thinking he was their mother returning with food, or waking up in his sleeping bag to watch a family of skunks troop over his stomuch. Both took extreme pleasure in knowing that they were in the real world, the primal world, not the man-made , messy one but the one that went on forever whether humans existed or not. They often saw deer that had no doubt never seen any other humans before the Youngs. Paul A. Young owned a marina of that name in Drayton Plains, Michigan, the only one in the area, and his family lived in a lake home on a lake attached to his lake, both nice-sized ski lakes with many families living on them. His children were allowed to bring home any boat they wanted, any time, as well as try out types of water-ski ropes and bouyancy belts and jackets, skiis, wet suits, paddle boats, and snowmobiles. On her 15th birthday Deanne brought home a pontoon on which 10 girls slept out on the lake on an over-night sleepover while (natch) boys tried to sneak up on them in rowboats. Deanne and her brothers and sister went to Cathoic summer camp two weeks every year and belonged to many things, Deanne earning junior yeoman, yeoman, junior bowman, and bowman pins in archery and taking piano lessons, ballet, art, and swimming both at camp and outside it as well as being in the 4-H Club and the secretary of her Junior Achievement Club at 15. Her brother Tony, 2 years younger, was the youngest Eagle Scout in his part of the state upon earning that title at age 13 ; and he played football in junior high school. In high school Deanne lived at a Catholic girl's boarding school in Monroe, Michigan and was secretary of the Drama Club, treasurer of The Human Relations Club, President of the Senior Class of Residents and and President of the Board of Directors, Residents. She and her brothers, Terry, b 1959 d. 1970, and Tony (Paul A Jr) b. 1957 (d. 1982 just months away from a PhD in Organic Chemistry )often snowmoblied all day long in the northwoods , as well as camped, hiked, fished, and shot skeet there. They were well-trained by their father in hunting and shooting and fly-fishing, as he had been by his father, who had been by his father.But like these gentlemen, Deanne most loved helping her father conserve the woodlands- they'd get carrots to the deer in an early snow and make the forest amenable to critters in ways like setting up drumming logs next to small trees for cover so the ruffed grouse could do their mating and territorial "drumming". Deanne's identical twin sister, Debbie Young, did not enjoy the outdoors at all and never appraoched it. Debbie died a horrible death of hepatitis C in March 2005 at age 50 after 8 months unable to even lift her neck to read, although she was on the liver transplant list, due to an HMO whose bottom line was to save money.(http://ausable.homestead.com/debbieyoung.html) Paul A. Young died August 3, 2007 of MRSI pnumonia. He went to the emergancy room on his own feet expecting at worst that his atrial fibrillation had returned and he would have to go home with a portable oxygen tank, and complained that he hoped that was not the case. He said goodnight to Deanne and the next day when she returned he could not speak because he had a breathing tube in his lungs. The hospital sedated him and then recieved permission from his wife of 59 years, who was suffering from dementia, to pull the plug-he never even knew he had a chance of dying. His widow had no idea how he was supporting them and could not even find enough money to feed herself after his death, although they owned a $350,000 pool home on a golf course mortgage-free. To save the home Deanne began to write her memoir while her daughter, Mary, 19, aced the Japanese language in college, including a college in Kyoto, Japan, her plans on becoming a writer with a MFA in Creative Writing shelved to quickly get money as an interpreter. Besides Deanne, who is on disability from peripartum cardiomyopathy contracted during labor with her second baby and in need of a heart transplant, and granddaughter Mary AuSable Myers, Paul has one other descendant, Marina Martha Myers, 13 and an aspiring actress. Her inspirations are Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johannson, two actresses who were very empathetic movie stars by the age of 14 and are able to play many diverse characters. She lives like Jeliza Rose of "Tidelands" so also likes child actress Jodelle Ferland for whaat she did with a similar setting. When I figure out how, I will link this to The National Bank of Detroit article in Wikipedia and write articles on Paul H. Young, and also Joseph D. and Daniel C. Myers, the latter Deanne's husband who with his father Joseph made original-designed , hand-painted stained glass church windows for over 200 Florida churches, temples, and chapels including the chapels at Tampa's VA Hospital and H. Lee Moffatt Cancer Center, and also Hillsborough High School, Sea World in Texas, the Greek Orthodox Shrine of St. Michael in Tarpon Springs, Florida, the University of South Florida Business Administration office, and many restaurants and homes.Dan Myers worked with his father from the age of 14 until his father's death in 1989, becoming the glass painter in 1972. Local newspapers called him a master glass painter and noted he was perhaps the last in the tradition of the Rennaissance or Munich style of pictorial stained glass painters .(archives, St. Petersburg Times; website, Christ the King Catholic Church, Tampa, Florida under "history".)He served in Vietnam with the U. S. Army in 1967-68 and earned 3 bronze stars. One was for diving into a river to save a man after a pile-driver hit him in the head and knocked him unconcious intot he water. Dan had been scuba-diving in Florida's vast underground spring-filled caves as a boy and was a sailor and excellent swimmer. For the last 7 years Deanne and Dan have raised their family on less than $10,000 a year and the family is so poor they go without toilet paper two weeks a month, but Deanne feels-Deanne KNOWS- she has had a full and wonderful life. Her memoir is currently in progress at urbis.com under her real name and has recieved good reviews (and advice) and is certain to be published, at which point this will be a real wikipedia article of significance. This is a practice page, a user page and we are asked by wikipedia not to scare newbies away by deleting their user pages as though they have done something wrong for following the rules of the user page which is to write about yourself, leave words for your friends, tell your intentions on wikipedia and use this page as a sandbox to try things out without directly publishing them as entries. I am using this page to learn how to do this thing, not act like I think it is MySpace, and I have talent and a nose for research so you don't want me discouraged away from ever trying to be part of the wikipedia project. I plan to try an article about my grandfather with links and photo and am trying to learn how to do any of it right. I had the sources for the Browning entry here but it was deleted by a boss who doesn't know we can do this on user pages. Now my source material is lost forever. I intend to find out what book the South Bend bit is in.