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 YOUNG

YULEE

Custer's brigade into confusion on June 9. Gen- eral Young was promoted major-general, Dec. 12, 1864 (being then but twenty-five years of age), and commanded liis brigade in M. C. Butler's di- vision. Hampton's cavalry corps, at Petersburg and Riclimond, Dec. 31, 1864. At the close of the war he returned to his plantation at Carters- ville, Ga. ; was a Democratic representative from Georgia in the 40th-4.3d congresses, serving from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1875 : a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1868, 1876 and 1880 ; candidate for U.S senator, 1871 ; del- egate to the Democratic state conventions of 1876 and 1880; U.S. commissioner to the Paris international exposition of 1878 : member of the Democratic state committee, 1880-82 ; U.S. con- sul-general at St. Petersburg, by appointment from President Cleveland, 1885-87, resigning in the latter year, and was appointed U.S. minister to Guatemala and Honduras in 1893. He died in New Y'ork city. July 6. 1896.

YOUNG, Richard riontgomery, senator, was born in Kentucky in 1796. He removed to Illi- nois and was one of the first settlers of the town of Quincy. He was admitted to the bar, Sept. 28, 1817 ; was a representative in the state legis- lature, 1820-22, and judge of the 3d judicial cir- cuit of Illinois, 1825-29. He was presidential elector on the Jackson and Calhoun ticket in 1829 ; judge of the 5th judicial circuit of Illinois, 1829-36, and U. S. senator, 1837-43. He was cominissioned a state agent to negotiate the in- ternal improvement bonds in 1839, and was ap- pointed associate justice of the U.S. supreme court, Feb. 4, 1843, resigning Jan, 25, 1847. On Jan. 6, 1847, he was appointed by President Polk commissioner of the general land office, resigning Jan. 24, 1850. He succeeded Thomas Jefferson Campbell, deceased, as clerk of the house of repre- sentatives, April 7, 1850, serving till Dec. 1, 1851. He died in Washington, D.C., about 1852.

YOUNG, Samuel Baldwin Marks, soldier, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 9, 1840. He enlisted in the 12th Pennsylvania volunteers April 25, 1861, for three months' service ; re-enlisted for three years as captain in the 4th Pennsylvania cavalry Sept. 6, 1861 ; was promoted major Sept. 20, 1862, lieutenant-colonel May 1, 1864, colonel June 25, 1864, and on April 9, 1865, he was brev- etted brigadier-general for " gallant and merito- rious services during the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under Gen, R. E. Lee," He was honorably mustered out of the volunteer army July 1, 1865, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the 12th U,S. infantry May 11, 1866 : transferred to the 3d U.S. cavalry as col- onel June 19, 1897 ; was promoted brigadier-gen- eral Jan, 2, 1900 ; major-general Feb, 2, 1901 X. — 31

His brevets were major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel March 2, 1867, He was made brigadier- general of volunteers May 4, 1898 ; commanded a brigade of cavalry in Cuba ; was promoted major- general of volunteers July 8, 1898, and com- manded a division in the Philippines and later the 2d army corps. He was honorably discharged Api-il 13, 1899, and resumed his place in the regu- lar army and was made military governor of Northwestern Luzon and commander of the 1st District, Department of Northern Luzon, On Aug, 8, 1903, he became lieutenant-general, com- manding the army, and chief of staff as suecessor of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, retired. General Young was retired by operation of law Jan. 9, 1904.

YOUNG, Tliomas Lowry, governor of Ohio, was born in Killyleagh, county Down, Ireland, Dec. 14, 1832. He came to the United States in 1847 ; served as a private, U.S.A., 1847-57, partic- ipating in the Mexican war ; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law school, and was assistant superintendent of the House of Refuge Reform school in 1861, when he joined the U.S. Volunteer army as 1st lieutenant. He was promoted cap- tain in August, 1861, serving in Fremont's body- guard ; subsequently appointed major of the 118th Ohio regiment ; promoted lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in 1862, and brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry at Resaca in 1865. He was admitted to the Cincinnati bar in 1865 ; appointed assist- ant auditor of the city ; was a representative in the state legislature, 1866-68, recorder of Hamil- ton county, Ohio, 1867, supervisor of internal rev- enue, 1868 ; a delegate to the Republican national convention, 1868 ; state senator, 1872-74 ; lieu- tenant-governor of Ohio, 1876-77, and actinggov- ernor, from March, 1877, succeeding Rutherford B. Hayes, elected President of the United States. He was a Republican representative from the second Ohio district in the 46th-47tli congresses, 1879-83, and a member of the board of public affairs of Cincinnati, 1886-88. He died in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, July 20, 1888,

YULEE, David Levy, senator, was born in the West Indies, 1811; son of a Hebrew named Levy. He retained his father's name until 1845, when he added the name Yulee, He acquired a limited education in Virginia ; began preparation for the bar, and subsequently became a planter in Flor- ida, He served in the U.S. congress as a delegate from tlie Florida Territory, 1841-45 ; was a del- egate to the first state constitutional convention, 1845, and a U.S. senator, 1845-51 and 1855-61. In 1861 he was elected to the Confederate States congress, serving througliout the existence of that body. In 1865 he was imprisoned in Fort Pulaski, and was subsequently pardoned. He was inter- ested in the development of railroads in Florida. He died in New York city, Oct. 10, 1886.