Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-09-03
MRS, DE YOUNG.

Brief Sketch Of Her Life-Her I'm
sullied Character = The S0lici.
tude Of Her Sons for Her Wei.
fare. N
The attacks upon Mrs. De Young
would be unjustitiable and indecent
if made upon any mother, but when
made upon lady of unsullied char
acter, who, now standing on the verge
| Of the grave, can look back
upon virtuous life of toll, trial and
triumph, they become atroeious and
brutal. Mrs. De Young, whAis BOW
over II years OF age, was born,
raised and educated in Bordeaux,
France. The greatest care was taken
in her education, and but few ladies
of her age are so we'll versed in lit
erature and evince the same interest
in literary pursuits. Indeed, it. is
said that the success of the Chronicle
in the early days of its existence was
due to the work which she rs cOadju-
tor of her sons bestowed upon it..
She married Mr.. M. De Young in
early life in New York, and shortly
afterward they moved to Baltimore.
Concerning her husband the New
York Daily Graphic in its issue Of
Jnne 90, 1879, says:
I'M. De Young was a well-known
Baltimore merchant, who at the time
of the great panic of 1887 was at
the head of q large shell, comb and
silver mandatory 10 that city and a
director in two of its leading banks.
There was also line of sailing pack
cts known as De Young's Lipe,' ply
ing regularly between Baltimore and
the West Indies. The panic carried
down most Of the leading merchants
of the city, but Mr.. De Young sue
ceeded in meeting all his obligations
promptly. He moved to New Or
leans, where he became cotton mer-
chant, owning large cotton ware
house. Subsequently he resided for
number of years in Cincinnati, and
finally decided to go to California.
He completed his business arrange
ments, engaged passage from New
Orleans and shipped from New York
q cargo of merchandise and house.
hold furniture. In the passage down
the Mississippi river on the steamer
Osceola, Mr.. De Young fell from the
berth in an apoplectic tit. The steamer
Lut in to Vicksburg and took a ply
stefan, but Mr.. De Young died and
his body was taken to New Orleans,
where it was buried by the Masons
and Odd Fellows, of which orders
he had been prominent member.
Mrs. De Young, with her eight chill
dren, by the advice Of her friends,
went on to California in order to real
ize on the merchandise"
Mrs. De Young, thrown upon the
world with large family of small
children, experienced all the hard
ships which helpless and unprotected
poverty imposed in this State in early
days. Many of the old residents of
California remember her in the unos-
tentatious and accomplishing but
lowly struggle which she made to
support her large and almost helpless
family, and all unite in commenda-
ton Of the bravery with which she
made the fight, and of the irreproach-
able character she bore through it
all. In the success of the Chronicle
as newspaper venture she reaped
her reward, and the filial regard and
tender care with which Charles and
NJ. H. De Young have evinced and
bestowed upon their widowed mother
have elected comment from friends
as we'll as foes; in fact, the peculiar
solicitude which they have shown to
smooth their mothers course down
the declining pathway of lite, the
attempt to recompense her to some
extent for the sacrifices, tolls and
struggles which she has made and
undergone for them, has almost
amounted to monomania.
As evidence of this they have
carefully concealed from her the
fact that Charles De Young is now
held as prisoner for shooting man
who had slandered her; and to keep
up this innocent deception they daily
print an edition of the Chronicle for
her benefit from which all illusions to
the tragedy are carefully expunged.
The writer of, this article has no
personal acquaintance with the moth
er and is no personal friend OF
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