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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.