William Wesley Young

Background

Young, William Wesley was born on October 1, 1868 in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Daniel Stephen and Amanda (Wagner) Young.

Education

University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1 year. Bachelor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1892.

Career

Founded, 1892, The Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin (still official organ of university). News editor, Madison (Wisconsin) Democrat, 1892-1894. On staff, New York Morning World, 1894-1896, Sunday World, 1896-1900.

Sunday editor, Chicago American, 1900-1905.

Editor, Chicago Daily Journal, 1905-1908. Editor Hampton’s Magazine, 1908-1911.

Managing editor Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1912. Editor The Publishers’ Guide, and on staff McClure Newspaper Syndicate, 1913.

Sunday editor New York Press, public of Golf, and The Forum, 1914-1916.

Edited British Government official war films, and director publicity for Belgian Soldiers’ Tobacco Fund, 1916. Secretary and editor-manager National Editorial Service, New York, 1917-1919. National publicity director Boy Scouts America, 1920-1921.

Editorial director and assistant production manager Pictorial Clubs, Incorporated., since 1921.

Interested in corpns. producing educational and industrial motion pictures. Personally produced “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Through the Looking Glass,” also “The Mystery of Life” (with Clarence Darrow), 1931.

Achievements

• William Wesley Young has been listed as a noteworthy editors by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Delta Chi (honorary). Clubs: The Friars, Vagabonds, Writers, National Press.

Connections

Married Adelaide Genevieve Oehler, of New York, December 31, 1900. Children: Wilmer Lacey, William Wesley.

Father:

Daniel Stephen Young

Mother:

Amanda (Wagner) Young

Spouse:

Adelaide Genevieve Oehler

child:

William Wesley Young

child:

Wilmer Lacey Young