Samuel Youngs (December 4, 1760–September 12, 1839) was an American school teacher. He was a friend of Washington Irving and may have served as inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, and was honoured, along with other residents of Tarrytown who fought in that war, with a monument erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Following the war, he became a member of the Assembly and Surrogate of Westchester County. He was buried in the yard of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York. In 1851 Youngs' remains were removed to the Dale Cemetery in Ossining, New York, becoming the first interment at that cemetery.
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“Although Samuel had a depraved imagination—perhaps even because of this—love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of the intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: “Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile.””
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)