Background
Young, Charles Augustus was born on December 15, 1834 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Ira and Eliza M. (Adams) Young.
Astronomer physicist university professor
Young, Charles Augustus was born on December 15, 1834 in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Ira and Eliza M. (Adams) Young.
Graduate Dartmouth College, 1853. Studied Andover Theological
He observed solar eclipses and worked on spectroscopy of the Sun. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Graduated from Dartmouth, he later became a professor there in 1865, remaining until 1877 when he went to Princeton.
He was a successful educator who wrote a popular and widely used series of astronomy textbooks, including Manual of Astronomy.
Many years later in 1927, when Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart wrote their own two-volume textbook, they entitled it Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy.
Served in Civil War as captain Company B, 85th Regiment, Ohio volunteers, 4 months, 1862. Member National Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president, 1876, president, 1883).
Married Augusta Spring Mixer, August 26, 1857 (deceased. Children: Clara Adelaide (Mistress Hiram A. Hitchcock), Charles Ira, Frederick Albert.