Education
Young graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and Harvard Law School in 1911.
Young graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and Harvard Law School in 1911.
Following nine years of legal practice, Young retired from the law. In 1910, Young was elected a Selectman of the Town of Weston, Massachusetts, a position he held for thirty-six years. Young was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1915, serving from 1916-1924.
Young served on the Ways and Means Committee in 1916, and as the chairman of the Recess Committee on State Finances in 1917.
In 1928, Young ran unsuccessfully for United States Senator. On June 26, 1933 Young was a delegate to, and the president of, of the Massachusetts Convention that ratified the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.
They had four children: Barbara, Charlotte Hubbard, Lorraine, and Benjamin Loring, Junior.
Young was on the Board of Parole and Advisory Board of Pardons for the State Prison and Massachusetts Reformatory from 1913 to 1915, and the chairman of the State Board of Probation from 1927-1942, a United States Referee in Bankruptcy from 1925-1941, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1922-1928.