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Young was born on September 12, 1847 in Butler, Pennsylvania. His father, Loyal Young, a Presbyterian minister, was of Massachusetts ancestry while his mother, Margaret (Johnston) Young, was of Scotch-Irish stock.
(Alaska Days with John Muir By Samuel Hall Young)
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Young was born on September 12, 1847 in Butler, Pennsylvania. His father, Loyal Young, a Presbyterian minister, was of Massachusetts ancestry while his mother, Margaret (Johnston) Young, was of Scotch-Irish stock.
After a schooling irregular because of physical weakness and the necessity of teaching from time to time for his support, Young graduated in 1875 from the College of Wooster, Ohio. He studied for one year in Princeton Theological Seminary and for two years in Western Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1878.
The appeal of Sheldon Jackson moved Young to offer himself to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for service in Alaska, when only one American missionary was there. Ordained by the Presbytery of West Virginia in June 1878, he reached Fort Wrangell in July and began work among the Stickeen Indians. In August 1879 he organized at Fort Wrangell the first Protestant and first American church in Alaska. With John Muir, who in this year came to Alaska for the first time, he explored Glacier Bay and discovered the Muir Glacier. The next year they traveled and mapped an inside route to Sitka. Muir gave to a glacier in Endicott Arm the name "Young. " As organizer and secretary of the first territorial convention in 1881 Young drafted a memorial to Congress asking for better government. During 1882-1883 he spoke extensively in the United States for Alaskan missions and also followed up the memorial, which resulted in the act of Congress of 1884 establishing the district of Alaska and providing civil officers and schools. By 1888, when Young resigned his place at Fort Wrangell, Christian missionary work was proceeding in all the principal tribes of southern Alaska, largely because of his initiative. During 1889-1892 Young served churches in Long Beach and Wilmington, California, and in and near Chicago. From 1892 to 1895 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and then became instructor in Biblical history and pastor of the college church at Wooster. Called back to Alaska by the Klondike gold rush, he spent the winter of 1897-1898 at Dawson, gaining strong influence among the miners and organizing a church. In the spring of 1899 he settled at Nome, where he devoted himself chiefly to caring for typhoid sufferers, almost died himself of the fever, and finally established a church. In 1901, after a winter at Ithaca, New York, he returned to Alaska as general missionary of his board. Another winter at home was followed by eight years in Alaska - four passed at Fairbanks (1904-1908) and two at Cordova. In 1910 he was recalled to the New York office of the board, but the next year, then sixty-four, he went to isolated mining camps beyond the Yukon, staying until 1913. From that year to 1921 he was on the staff of the board as special representative for Alaska. As secretary for Alaska of the Home Missions Council he assigned fields to the denominations, envisaging a "United Evangelical Church of Alaska. " Thither he went again in 1921, as general missionary to reorganize all the Presbyterian work. Retiring in 1924, he lived at Bellevue, Washington. During a visit in West Virginia he was killed by a trolley-car near Clarksburg. Young published some verse and four volumes of prose - Alaska Days with John Muir (1915), The Klondike Clan (copr. 1916), Adventures in Alaska (1919), and (posthumously) Hall Young of Alaska (copr. 1927), an autobiography.
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Young was a man of inexhaustible energy, vitality, humor, and devotion.
On December 15, at Sitka, Young married Fannie E. Kellogg, who had gone there as a missionary shortly before his arrival. His wife had died in 1915; they left three daughters.