Truman Post Young

Background

Young, Truman Post was born on September 19, 1877 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Daniel Comstock and Clara Harrison (Post) Young.

Education

Student Smith and Rugby academics, St. Louis, 1885-1895. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1899. Bachelor of Laws, Washington University Law School, St. Louis, 1901.

Career

Admitted to Missouri bar, 1901, and since practiced in St. Louis. First associated with uncle, T. A. Post, later with Nagel & Kirby. Assistant United State Attorneys, St. Louis, 1905-1909.

Associate city counselor, 1909-1917. Partner Fordyce, Halliday & White, 1917-1919, Koerner, Fahey & Young, 1919-1929, Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young since 1929.

Membership

Member American, Missouri State and St. Louis bar associations, Zeta Psi, Phi Delta Phi. Mason.; Clubs: Noonday, University, Public Question, Missouri Athletic Association.

Connections

Married Katharine Clifford, June 30, 1917 (died January 8, 1919). Married second, Hilda Dunbar Jamieson, November 25, 1922. Children: Truman Post, Hilda Patterson, Anne Morrison, Frances Henshaw.

Father:

Daniel Comstock Young

Mother:

Clara Harrison (Post) Young

Spouse:

Katharine Clifford

Spouse:

Hilda Dunbar Jamieson

child:

Frances Henshaw Young

child:

Hilda Patterson Young

child:

Truman Post Young

child:

Anne Morrison Young