Young, Andrew White – Young, John S
Young, Andrew White
journalist, author, was born March 2, 1802, in Carlisle, N. Y. He was a journalist of Warsaw, N. Y.; and the author of First Lessons in Civil Government; Citizens' Manual of Government and Law; The American Statesman; National Economy: a History of the Protective System; History of Warsaw; and History of Wayne County, Ind. He died Feb. 17, 1877, in Warsaw, N. Y.
Young, Augustus
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 20, 1785, in Arlington, Vt. He was representative in congress from Vermont from 1841 to 1843; and was the author of On the Quadrature of the Circle; and Unity of Purpose. He died June 17, 1857, in St. Albans, Vt.
Young, Brigham
was born June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vt. In 1822 he founded the Mormon sect at Kirkland, Ohio; and was one of the apostles sent out to make converts in 1835. He was chosen president and prophet in 1844; abandoned Nauvoo in 1846, and persuaded his followers that Salt Lake Valley was the promised land. He settled there in 1847; and in 1849 organized a state called Deseret, but congress organized it as the territory of Utah, of which he was United States governor from 1850 to 1854. The Mormons having defied the federal government, President Buchanan, in 1857, sent a force to enforce its authority, and in 1858 a compromise was made. He had twelve actual wives, besides many who had been sealed to him as his spiritual wives. As the head of the Morman church he was long governor of the territory, and president by semi-annual election. He died Aug. 29, 1877.
Young, Bryan R
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
Young, Casey
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1832 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Memphis, Tenn., to the fortyfourth congress; was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses; and also elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Young, Charles Augustus
astronomer, educator, author, was born Dec. 15, 1834, in Hanover, N. H. He is an astronomer of note, professor of astronomy at Princeton college from 1877; and the author of The Sun; A General Astronomy; Elements of Astronomy; Lessons in Astronomy; and Uranography.
Young, Charles Elisha
physician, author, was born Aug. 27, 1858, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is author of Antipartum Hæmorrhage; and other works.
Young, Charles L
soldier, manufacturer, educator, was born Nov. 23, 1838, in Albany, N. Y. He received his education at the Albany academy, the Classical institute, and other classical institutions of his native state; and his preference for the bar was interrupted by the war. He served as an officer in the civil war, with rank of lieutenantcolonel of volunteers; commanded his regiment in Pope's campaign; was on the staff of Generals Sickles and Joseph Hooker; and was in inspector-general's department of the second corps of General W. S. Hancock. In 1878-80 he was brigadier-general of the state of Ohio; national senior vice commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1881- 82; superintendent of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' home in Xenia, Ohio, during 1890-95; and in 1895-96 was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphans' Industrial school. In 1890 he was president of the Toledo Soldiers' Memorial association; and was a director in the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial association.
Young, Ebenezer
state senator, congressman, was born in 1784 in Killingly, Conn. In 1823 he was elected to the Connecticut state senate; was twice reelected; and was two years speaker of the house. He was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1835. He died Aug. 18, 1851, in West Killingly, Conn.
Young, Edward
poet, was born Nov. 25, 1818, in England. He is the author of a book of poems entitled Ladye Lillian.
Young, Edward Faitoute Con- Dit
banker, was born Jan. 25, 1835, in Malapardis, N. J. He is president of the First National bank of Jersey city; of the Joseph Dixon Crucible company of Jersey City; and of the New Codale Coal company.
Young, Edward M
musician, composer, was born May 21, 1857, in San Francisco, Cal. He is a successful instructor; and the author of a number of pieces for the piano. He has been president of the California Music Teachers' association.
Young, George Curson
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1840 in Wis- He was educated at beach, England.
Rugby and Eton colleges, and received his medical education at Edinburgh and Leeds. After passing a term in Guy's hospital and St. Bartholomew's, he made a tour through the various hospitals of Europe. He next visited Palestine, Egypt, and other countries, and in 1870 emigrated to the United States. He has since practiced his profession in New York city, Port Jervis, N. Y., and is now in Washington, N. J. For two years he was professor of physiology in the Eclectic Medical college of New York city. He is the editor of The Red Cross Knight, and the past grand commander of that order. He is the author of Ancient and Modern History of the Order of Knights of Malta, in two volumes; Therapeutics in Nature; Physiology for the People, and various other medical works.
Young, Henry W
journalist, state senator, was born Dec. 17, 1847, in Northville, N. Y. He is the editor of The Star and Kansan of Independence; and is now a member of the Kansas state senate.
Young, James
capitalist, was born July 25, 1820, in Middletown, Pa.
In 1859 he purchased a limestone quarry in Lancaster county, Pa.; and from it supplied a large amount of stone for bridges and railroads; and in 1886 he sold the quarry and became a prudent investor in real estate.
Young, James Rankin
soldier, educator, congressman, was born March 6, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the thirty-second Pennsylvania infantry.
He made a six months' tour of the southern states soon after the war as a correspondent of the New York Tribune; and served as chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Tribune from 1866 to 1870. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Evening Star in 1866, and has been a constant contributor to its columns from that date to the present time, writing over the signature of S. M.
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Young, Jesse Bowman
soldier, clergyman, editor, author, was born July 5, 1844, in Berwick, Pa. He was educated in the Dickinson seminary, the Polytechnic college, Lafayette college and Dickinson college, graduating from the latter institution in 1868. During 1862-65 he served as lieutenant and captain in the eighty-fourth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, being on staff duty much of the time. He is the author of a volume of army reminiscences entitled What a Boy Saw in The Army. He is also the author of Days and Nights on The Sea; and a prize essay on Mental Culture a Christian's Duty. He is an eminent clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church; and since 1892 has been the editor of The Central Christian Advocate, one of the greatest journals of that denomination.
Young, John
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born June 12, 1802, in Chelsea, Vt. He was in the New York state legislature in 1831, 1844 and 1845, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1841 to 1843. He was governor of the state from 1847 to 1849 and was assistant treasurer of the United States in New York city at the time of his death. He died April 23, 1852, in New York city.
Young, John D
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1823, on Flat Creek, Ky. During 1843-46 he was a farmer and deputy sheriff; and during 1852-55 was a deputy United States marshal under his father, Colonel Thomas Johnson Young. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar, and the same year was elected judge of that county court, serving four years. He received the re-election in 1866, but resigned the following year, having received the nomination of the democratic party as a candidate to a seat in the fortieth congress. He was elected but refused his seat; he was again elected to the forty-third congress, and served out his full term. In 1890 Judge Young was again re-elected judge of Bath county, serving four years; and is now master commissioner of the Bath circuit court.
Young, John Freeman
protestant episcopal bishop, was born Oct. 30, 1820, in Pittston, Maine. Having been elected the second bishop of Florida, he was consecrated in 1867, and held the office until the time of his death. He published Great Hymns of the Church. He died Nov. 15, 1885, in New York city.
Young, John Russell
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 20, 1841, in Dowington, Pa. In 1871 he went abroad as one of the foreign correspondents of the New York Herald, in which service he traversed the British Isles and the continent. In 1877 he accompanied General Grant in his famous tour around the world, which occupied two years; and he published the result of his observations in two volumes entitled Around the World with General Grant. On his return he resumed his position on the editorial staff of the New York Herald; and in 1882 was appointed United States minister to China. He is also the author of The Memorial History of Philadelphia.
Young, John S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. He served in the confederate army throughout the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At the close of the war resumed the practice of his profession at Homer, La.; and was a district judge.
He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
YOUNG, MRS. JULIA EVELYN [DIT- TO], author, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1857, in Buffalo, N. Y. She is a novelist and poet of Buffalo; and the author of Adrift, a Story of Niagara; Glynne's wire, a Story in Verse; and Thistle Down.