Background
Young was born in Salt Lake City in 1858, to Joseph A. Young and his wife Margaret Whitehead. Joseph Young was the son of Brigham Young and his wife Mary Ann Angell.
Young was born in Salt Lake City in 1858, to Joseph A. Young and his wife Margaret Whitehead. Joseph Young was the son of Brigham Young and his wife Mary Ann Angell.
He entered West Point in 1878, and graduated 15th in the Class of 1882 and was commissioned in the field artillery. In 1884 he graduated from Columbia Law School, and practiced as a military attorney until 1888, when he returned to Utah to open a private law practice.
He reentered the military during the Spanish–American War, and led the Utah Light Artillery in the Philippines. When the war ended, he was appointed as an Associate Justice of the United States. Territory of the Philippines Supreme Court. He later returned to private legal practice, acting as attorney for the Idaho Sugar Company (later becoming the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company).
In 1918 he was commissioned as a brigadier general, and he led a United States. artillery brigade in France.
He died of appendicitis in 1919, and was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Richard Young married Minerva Richards, the daughter of Henry Phinehas Richards and Margaret Minerva Amanda Empey.
This means that Richard and Minerva were third cousins, since they both descended from Phineas Howe and Susannah Goddard. Young"s daughter Minerva was the wife of Adam South. Bennion.
Member City Council. 1890-1891, Board of Education, 1890-1894, 1898. Member of the board of visitors West Point, 1902.
Married Minerva Richards, September 5, 1882.