James Wells Young was born March 5, 1880, in Lovelace, Texas. After graduating from Polytechnic College, teaching school at Frog Liver, and attending Texas State College of Medicine in Galveston, he arrived in Roscoe on August 21, 1907, and began a medical practice that first took him by horseback and later by horse and buggy to farms and ranches across the area. He soon met Iona Kearse, a Roscoe schoolteacher born March 7, 1886, in Rosebud, Texas, who had graduated from Sam Houston Normal Institute in Huntsville in 1904, and they married on August 12, 1908. He performed surgery on many kitchen tables by kerosene lamp, delivered over 3,200 babies, rode 100 miles in 24 hours to treat the sick during the influenza epidemic of 1917, and built Young Hospital in 1935. At the hospital he was joined by sons T.D. Young, M.D, and J.W. Young, Jr., DDS. and daughter Lady Iona Young as bookkeeper. The couple were active in the Methodist church, the Masonic Lodge, and state and national medical stations; he was a charter member of the Roscoe Lion's Club, and she was the first Worthy Matron of the Roscoe Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. In 1950 they were named Outstanding Citizens of Roscoe. In 1962 he wrote "It All Comes Back," recounting his experiences as an early pioneer doctor in Nolan County. They gave generously to the church and community. Iona died in 1952, and he died in 1970 at age 90.