Annals of the Beaver River

  Harlow C. Young bought the Old Homestead from H. C. Churchill at the end of the 1910 tourist season. Young changed the name of the hotel to the Beaver River Inn but kept everything else the same. As seen above, the photographer Henry Beach did not have time to take a new postcard photo before the 1911 season started, so he simply scratched out the former name and replaced it.  Harlow Young was born February 21, 1865. He grew up on the east side of the Black River in the Lewis County Town of Watson on the edge of the Beaver River wilderness. He married a neighbor, Minnie J. Schmidlin, on January 6, 1892. At the time of their wedding Harlow was almost twenty-seven years old; his bride Minnie was born May 19, 1872, so she was nineteen on their wedding day.    Harlow and Minnie settled in Crystaldale, a small community along the Number Four Road. When the railroad started carrying passengers to Beaver River Station later in 1892, Harlow decided to supplement his income...