Young, Loyal – Zabriskie, Francis Nicoll
Young, Loyal
clergyman, author, was born July 1, 1806, in Charlemont, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman in Pennsylvania and West Virginia; and the author of From Dawn to Dusk; Ecce Diluvium; Interviews with Inspired Men; and Commentary on Ecclesiastes.
Young, Mrs. Mary Hulett
poet, was born near Saratoga, N. Y. She is a writer of Mayville, N. Y.; and the author of a prose work entitled Wahrite; and a volume of poems entitled Forest Leaves. one
Young, Michael Harry De
journalist, was born in October, 1848, in St.
Louis, Mo. He is the editor and owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, and of the best-known and most successful newspaper men in America. In 1865 he issued the first number of The Dramatic Chronicle, which was subsequently merged into the San Francisco Chronicle.
For many years he was a member of the national republican committee; and was nominee for the United States senatorship as successor to the late George Hearst. In 1889 he was appointed commissioner from California to the Paris exposition; he was one of the most prominent California representatives in the World's Columbian exposition, and was its second vice-president. The California Mid-Winter International exposition owed its conception to him, and he was its president and director general.
Young, Oscar E
educator, poet, was born Jan. 6, 1861, in East Livermore, Maine. He is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Seaside Songs and Woodland Whispers.
Young, Peter C
lawyer, jurist, was born May 19, 1848, in Achor, Ohio. This able lawyer of Lisbon, Ohio, for four years was engaged in editorial work; and is now judge of the probate court of his county.
Young, Pierce Manning Butler
soldier, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1839, in Spartanburg, S. C. He joined the confederate army, and rose by promotion to the rank of major-general, receiving two wounds in battle. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-first congress; and was reelected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat.
Young, Richard Montgomery
state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1796 in Kentucky. He was a presidential elector in 1828; and was a senator in congress from Illinois from 1837 to 1843. He was appointed commissioner in the general land office in 1846; and was clerk of the United States house of representatives in 1850 and 1851. He died about 1852 in Washington, D. C.
Young, Robert Anderson
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 23, 1824, in Knox county, Tenn. He is a successful clergyman; has been pastor, presiding elder, secretary of the board of foreign missions, president of the Wesleyan university of Alabama, and is now regent of Belmont college of Nashville, Tenn.
Young, Samuel Martin
farmer, legislator, was born May 29, 1861, near Dixon Springs, Tenn. In 1892-94 he was a member of the Tennessee state senate.
He has devoted his time to agricultural pursuits, and has been president of the Dixon Springs Live Stock association.
Young, Sherman Pomeroy
clergyman, was born Dec. 26, 1866, in Woodburn, Ill. He graduated from the Mc- Kendrick college with the degree of B.
A.; took a post-graduate course at the Yale university; and also from the Boston university, receiving from the latter institution the degree of S. T. B.
For many years he was engaged in educational work in Jackson county, Ill.; and is now pastor of the methodist episcopal church of Salem, Ill. He is a frequent contributor to church periodicals and the secular press.
Young, Stephen Jewett
educator, banker, was born in November, 1839, in Pittston. He became instructor, and then professor of modern languages in Bowdoin college. He is president of the First National bank of Brunswick, and has thrice represented the town in the Maine legislature.
Young, Thomas Lowry
soldier, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Ireland. He settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was appointed assistant city auditor in 1865; and also elected a member of the state house of representatives for the term of two years. He was elected state senator in 1871. He was lieutenant-governor in 1875; and in 1877 became governor by the election of R. B.
Hayes to the presidency. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died July 20, 1888, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Young, Timothy R
congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1849 to 1851.
Young, Van B
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1836 in Bath county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature; and in 1890 was judge of the superior court. He died Feb. 27, 1892, in Frankfort, Ky.
Young, Virginia D
journalist, author, was born in Marion, S. C. She has been state secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of South Carolina; honorable secretary of the Woman's International union; and president of the Equal Rights association of South Carolina. She is associate editor of the Varnville Enterprise of Fairfax, S. C.; and the author of two novels entitled A Tower in the Desert; and Beholding As In A Glass.
Young, William
dramatist, poet, was born in 1847 in Illinois. He is a dramatist of note whose plays include Pendragon; The Rajah; Jonquil; The Rogue's March; Ganelon; Joan of Arc; If I Were You: Young America; and The House of Mauprat. He has also written Wishmakers' Town, a volume of verse.
Young, William A
merchant, congressman, was born May 17, 1860, in Norfolk, Va. He was elected from Norfolk City, Va., to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Young, William Henry Harri- Son Hutchinson
soldier, journalist, lawyer, inventor, was born May 4, 1819, in Amherst, N. Y. Since the war Colonel Young has practiced law in Washington.
He and his wife founded the New York Volunteer institute, a school in which they educated nine hundred soldiers' or phans at their own expense. He has invented and patented an artificial stone.
Young, William James
was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Pittsburg, Pa. During 1873-91 he has been consecutively cashier, vice-president and president of the Oil City Trust company of Oil City, Pa.; and since 1890 has been the vice-president, general manager and treasurer of the Forest Oil company of Pittsburg, Pa., the largest oil producing corporation in the state of Pennsylvania, with a capital of five and a half millions. Since 1893 he has been president of the Washington Oil company, and also since 1893 has been president of the Taylorstown Natural Gas company. He is prominent in the public affairs of Pittsburg, and a member of several fraternal orders.
Young, William S
congressman, was born in Nelson county, Ky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1825 to 1827.
Yulee, David Levy
agriculturist, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1811 in West Indies. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Florida from 1841 to 1845, bearing the name Levy; and as Yulee was a delegate to the convention which formed the state constitution. He was elected a senator in congress in 1845, where he continued until 1861. He died Oct. 10, 1886, in New York city.
Yutzy, Jacob
educator, clergyman, author, was born May 24, 1847, in Salisbury, Pa. He received his education at the Roanoke college, Virginia; the Pennsylvania college, and the Theological seminary of Gettysburg, Pa. Since 1882 he has been pastor of the University church of Selinsgrove, Pa. During 1892- 94 he was president of the Susquehanna Synod, Lutheran. During 1882-92 he was professor of Hebrew, moral science, and church history in the Susquehanna university; and the four years following filled the same chair with the addition of Greek and German. This successful professor of Semitic languages, Hebrew, Arabic, and Syraic, and of systematic divinity, is the author of A Sermon on Luther; History of the University Church of Selinsgrove; and other works.
Zabriskie, Abraham Oothout
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born June 10, 1807, in Greenbush (now East Albany), N. Y. Removing to Jersey City he was elected to the state senate, and took an important part in framing the city charter of 1851 and in other legislation. He became chancellor of New Jersey in 1866. He died June 27, 1873, in Truckee, Cal.
Zabriskie, Andrew Christian
soldier, capitalist, author, was born May 30, 1853, in New York city. He is the donor of a handsome bronze trophy, which is annually shot for by the various companies of the seventy-first regiment and is known as the Zabriskie Trophy. Of the Bergen Turnpike company, an ancient and powerful New Jersey corporation, he is president. His contributions to literature have been mostly of an historical character, and embrace a Descriptive Catalogue of the Medals Struck in Honor of Abraham Lincoln.
Zabriskie, Francis Nicoll
clergyman, author, was born in 1832 in New York. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman; and the author of Golden Fruit from Bible Trees; The Story of a Soul; Behold a Ladder; and Life of Horace Greeley. He died in 1891.