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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.