Martin Young shows up in the abstracts of several significant real estate transactions that provided for the growth of the town of Chesterton.

He does not appear to have had a major role in the development on the town, except it apparently provided him with the means to build the Italianate home on Second Street.

“except one acre conveyed by grantors April 30, 1894 to the Chesterton Paint Manufacturing company”, this was the complete estate of Cornelia Woods.

[2] In 1907, the Chesterton Realty Company purchased the area east of Coffee Creek and platted the Morgan Park development.

(12/13/1889 Chesterton Tribune) Martin Young bought the house in 1888 after Thomas Miles "met with a series of business reverses that rendered him bankrupt".