Background
YOUNG, James Carleton was born on July 29, 1856 in Marion, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Barris Y'oung and Jane M. Carter.
YOUNG, James Carleton was born on July 29, 1856 in Marion, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Barris Y'oung and Jane M. Carter.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell College, Iowa, 1876, Master of Science, 1879, Doctor of Letters, 1909. Doctor of Laws, Lenox College, Hopkinton, Iowa, 1913.
President Central Trackage Company, Imperial Investment Сompany. Vice president Guaranty Investment Company, Guaranty Realty Company. Secretary North Dakota Clay & Coal Company.
Treasurer Empire Real Estate & Mortgage Company President National Association of Real Estate Dealers, 1884-1886. Honorary commissioner of the United States to Paris Exposition, 1878. Devoted much time to the formation of a library, containing the best books of the most celebrated living authors of the world, each volume characteristically inscribed by the writer.
Upon petition of many of the most celebrated authors of France, was decorated in 1910 by that Republic with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, as a recognition of his services to literature.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Clubs: Authors’; Railroad, Grolier, New Yrork City.
Married Etta May Rogers, April.