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.