Background
Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, the son of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Church general authority Seymour B. Young and grandson of Joseph Young.
Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, the son of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Church general authority Seymour B. Young and grandson of Joseph Young.
Levi Young graduated from the University of Utah in 1895, and later became a faculty member at the same school, teaching history.
He was one of the seven presidents of the Seventy from 1909 until his death. Later in his life, he would do graduate studies at Harvard University and Columbia University and earned an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in history from Columbia. Foreign the last two years of his mission, he was the president of the Swiss–Austrian Mission of the church.
Of his life spent in both clerical and academic pursuits, J. Golden Kimball, in good humor, said of Young: "That little shrimp.
He goes around here carrying water on both shoulders, and he"s afraid to lean one way or the other for fear of spilling some of lieutenant"
When George Reynolds died in 1909, Young was selected to take his place in the First Council of the Seventy. Young became the senior president of the Seventy in 1941 and continued in that position until his death.
He died in Salt Lake City, Utah.