Brig Gen Richard W Young was born 19 April 1858 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah to Joseph Angell Young (1834-1875) and Margaret Whitehead (1838-1916) and died 27 December 1919 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah of unspecified causes. He married Minerva Richards (1862-1958) 5 September 1882 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Biography
Richard Whitehead Young (April 19, 1858 – December 27, 1919) was a U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines during the time that the Philippines was a U.S. Territory.
Parentage
Young was born in Salt Lake City in 1858, to Joseph A. Young and his wife Margaret Whitehead. Joseph Young was the son of Brigham Young (1801-1877) and his wife Mary Ann Angell (1808-1882).
US Army Career
He entered West Point in 1878, and graduated 15th in the Class of 1882 and was commissioned in the field artillery. In 1884 he graduated from Columbia Law School, and practiced as a military attorney until 1888, when he returned to Utah to open a private law practice.
He reentered the military during the Spanish-American War, and led the Utah Light Artillery in the Philippines.[1] When the war ended, he was appointed as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Territory of the Philippines Supreme Court.[1] He later returned to private legal practice, acting as attorney for the Idaho Sugar Company (later becoming the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company).[1]
In 1918 he was commissioned as a brigadier general, and he led a U.S. artillery brigade in France. He died of appendicitis in 1919.
Marriage & Family
Richard Young married Minerva Richards (1862-1958), the daughter of Henry Phinehas Richards and Margaret Minerva Amanda Empey. Henry Richards was a son of Phinehas Richards and his wife Wealthy Dewey, and thus a brother of Franklin D. Richards. This means that Richard and Minerva were third cousins, since they both descended from Phineas Howe and Susannah Goddard.
Young's daughter Minerva was the wife of Adam S. Bennion.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Margaret Young (1883-1963) | |||
| Mary Fessenden Young (1885-1977) | |||
| Richard Whitehead Young (1887-1974) | |||
| Henrietta Young (1889-1975) | |||
| Minerva Richards Young (1891-1967) | |||
| Edmund Young (1894-1895) | |||
| Clark Young (1895-1998) | |||
| Constance Ethel Young (1897-1996) | |||
| Truman R Young (1904-1984) | |||
| Ralph Empey Young (1906-1988) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Richard Whitehead Young (1858-1919) | 19 April 1858 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah | 27 December 1919 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah | Minerva Richards (1862-1958) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Laurence Collins Agramonte Young (1884-1942) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Brigham Truman Young (1853-1880) | |||
References
- Brigham Young Immigrant Ancestors - Famous colonial america ancestors and descendants
- Richard Whitehead Young - Wikipedia