Background
Young, Agatha was born on November 18, 1898 in Cleveland. Daughter of Edward Howard and Agnes (Chapin) Brooks.
Young, Agatha was born on November 18, 1898 in Cleveland. Daughter of Edward Howard and Agnes (Chapin) Brooks.
Graduate Dana Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1916. Educated in art Cleveland School of Art, 1918, School of Arts and Design, 1919, Columbia, 1919, L’Ecole Francaise, Paris, 1920.
Executed bas relief of Florence Nightingale, now in Saint Thomas’ Hospital, London. Costume director The Playhouse, Cleveland, 1923-1927. Head. department of costuming Yale Theatre, 1928-1929.
Member of faculty departments of fine arts and adult education Western Reserve University, 1930-1932.
Lecturer art and psychology of dress. In charge of preparing weekly summary of editorial opinion for War Department, 1940-1941.
Consultant to War Manpower Commission, 1941. Consultant Retng. and Reemployment Administration, 1944.
Member of staff Mount Ascutney Hospital and Medical Center (Agatha Young Medical Library there named in her honor).
Honorary staff Ottauquechee Health Center. Trustee Edward R. Murrow Foundation.
Member of faculty departments of fine arts and adult education Western Reserve University, 1930-1932. Member of staff Mount Ascutney Hospital and Medical Center (Agatha Young Medical Library there named in her honor). Member Fashion Group, American Statistical Association.
Club: Overseas of America.
Married George Benham Young, November 27, 1920.