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288 tre college, Danville, and from the law department of the University of Michigan. He has since prac- tised law in Danville, and is professor of law in his alma mater. He has been registrar in bankruptcy, master in chancery, commissioner to World's Co- lumbian exposition, and to the Atlanta exposi- tion, chairman for five years from 1891 of the Re- publican state central committee of Kentucky, and from 1896 member of the national Republican com- mittee. Mr. Yerkcs is the attorney for the Cin- cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacifie railway company, and since 1897 has been a commissioner of the state deaf and dumb institute and also U. S. collector of internal revenue. In 1877 the Uni- versity of Michigan gave him the degree of LL. B. YOlINix, €liarle8, soldier, b. near Helena, Ky., of negro parents, 12 March, 1867. His fannly re- moved to Ripley, Ohio, soon after his birth, and here he attended school. Immediately after gradu- ation he taught in the same school for three years, the last year holding the position of principal. He was ap[)ointed to the L. S. military academy from Ohio, and was graduated and commissioned additional 2d lieutenant in the 10th cavalry on 31 Aug., 1889, being transferred to the 25th in- fantry on 4 Oct., and thence to the 9th cavalry on 31 Oct. following. He served with his regiment for five years, most of the time at Fort Duchesne, where he performed the duties of adjutant and quartermaster. On the death of Lieut. Alexander he was detailed as military professor at Wilberforee university; in 1896 he was promoted to 1st lieu- tenant. He also took charge of sixty young white men at Antioch college who were anxious for military training, and in this task also he acquitted himself with success. At the beginning of the war with Spain in April, 1898, he was commis- sioned major of volunteers, and was assigned to the command of a colored battalion mustered into service from the National guard of Ohio, declining the colonelcy of the 8th Illinois infantry, which was offered to him by the governor.

YOUNG, Llicieii, naval otficer, b. in Lexington, Ky., 31 March, 1852. He graduated from the naval academy, 31 May, 1873. While on the "Alaska," in the European squadron, he rescued a seaman, for which he was presented with a gold medal. On the same cruise he rescued two men, one woman, and three children from a poliicca which was capsized in a gale off the mouth of the Tagus. He became an ensign in 1874. lie was ordered to the "Huron" in July, 1876, and the ship was wrecked, 24 Nov., 1877. For his conduct in rescuing the crew of the " Huron " he received the thanks of the secretary of the navy, a gold medal of the first class from congress, and a sword from his native state of Kentucky. He was promoted in regular grades to that of lieutenant, in May, 1884. In June, 1898, he was assigned to the command of the light-protected cruiser " Hist," formerly the "Felicia," with the fleet of Commo- dore Watson. Lieut. Young has published "A Standard Work on Navigation," " A Cruise in the Hawaiian Islands," "A Trip to the North Pole," and "The Boston at Hawaii " (Washington, 1898).

YOUNG, Samuel Baldwin Marks, soldier, b. near Pittsburg, Pa., 9 Jan., 1840, and was educated in the common schools. He entered the Union army as a [irivate in the 12th Pennsvlvania in- fantry, 25 April, 1861. In September he was com- missioned captain of the 4th Pennsvlvania cavalry, becoming major in 1862, lieutenant-colonel in 1864, and was brevetted brigadier-general for services in the closing campaign against Lee. He entered the regidar artny as 2d lieutenant in 1866, being promoted through various grades until June. 1897, when he became colonel of the 3d cavalry. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in May and major-general in July, 1898, rendering im- portant military services in Cuba in that year, and in the Philippine islands during 1899.

YOUNG, William Clark, engineer, b. in Youngstown, Ohio, 25 Nov., 1799; d. in New York city, 22 Dec, 1893. He was graduated at the V. S. military academy in July, 1822, and was appointed a lieutenant of the 2d artillery. After serving at Kort Jlonroe for four years, he resigned from the army, resuming his profession of an engineer, having been employed as such on the Erie canal before going to West Point in September, 1818. He was employed on various railways, and in 1849 was appointed chief engineer on the Hudson river railroad, becoming president two years later. Re- signing this office, Mr. Young, "in 1853, became president of the Panama railroad, which he built, and in 1855 was made superintendent of the west- ern division of the New York Central, from which he resigned two years later, desiring rest and re- tirement from public duties. At the time of his death, at the age of ninety-four, he was the last survivor among those who made the first survey of the P>ie canal, and also the oldest survivor among the graduates of the U. S. mililarv acadeniv.

YOUNG-MAN AFRAID OF HIS HORSES, hereditary chief of the Sioux Indian nation, b. in 1835; d. at Pine Ridge agency. South Dakota. 15 July, 1893. He was a son of a famous fighting chief, A-nian-afraid-of-his-horses, who died in 1889 at the age of ninety-two, and whose career was intimately connected with the frontier history of the northwest since the early years of the nine- teenth century. In addition to his rank as he- reditary chief of the entire Sionx nation, the son was the active leader of the Oglala tribe. Within the past two decades he had become a civilized and friendly Indian, had made frequent visits to Washington on the affairs of his people, and had rendered valiuible services to Gens. Crook and Miles, particularly to the latter during the "Mes- siah-dance " excitement of 1891-'2.