The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-26

Biographical sketch OF Charles De
Young.

HOung.
The following sketch Of the life of
Chas. de Young, founder and senior
proprietor of the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle, who was assassinated by Rev. /. M.
Kalloch,. in the Chronicle Office last
Friday evening appears in Saturdays
issue of that paper:
Charles de Young was the oldest son
of Mr.. NJ. and Mrs Amelia de Young,
He was born at Natchitoches, Louisi-
ana, in 1915, and was in the thirty fifth
year of his age at the time of his death.
M. de Young, the father, was a we'll
known Baltimore merchant in l847,
and director of two leading banks in
that city. He was also connected as
proprietor with line Of packets plying
between Baltimore and the West In
dies, known as Ode Young's Line."
Subsequently he removed to New Or
Jeans, where he.engaged in business as
d COtIOH lnSl Cuaill, Gii SAioloAy AA"Ci
the news of the discovery of gold in
this State reached that city, he ar
ranged to come to California, but died
of apoplexy at yiclsburg about the
time he was preparing 30 start. The
mother, Mrs. Amelia de Young, now in
the list year of her age, resided with
her children in this city, universally re-
spected and beloved by all who knew
her. At the age Of eight years Charles
accompanied his widowed mother and
the family Of younger brothers and Sis
tiers to California, which was in 1854.
He was educated in the public schools
of San Francisco, but did not long CON-
tinue in them, owing to the straitened
financial circumstances OF the family.
A taste for journalism induced him to
become printer In every depart
ment of that business his. knowledge
was thorough, as it afterwards became
in all the varied and complicated de-
tails of journalism. from the humblest
to the highest. His first newspaper
effort was a small paper devoted to the
interest of the public schools, which
was highly commended by the Board of
Education. This paper he sold advant-
ageously, and soon after started the
Holiday Advocate. Giving this up, he
started the Dramatic Chronicle, from
which small beginning the San Fran
cisco Daily Chronicle sprung, his young
er brother, NJ II. de Young, being as
ISOLATED with Charles as publisher and
proprietor. It is but short time since
the public has been made acquainted
through these columns with the history
and growth of the Chronicle, on the oc-
| casion of its entrance into the new
quarters, where its founder encountered
| his death at the hands of an assassin
last evening. What the first James
Gordon Bennett was to the New FORK
Herald, what Horace Greeley was to
the Tribune, was Charles de Young to
the Chronicle. In his business his ge-
MUS was Napoleonic, his judgment as
unerring rs fate, and his courage and
energy sublime. Charles de Young had
bitter enemies. No journalist of his
strength and uncompromising public
spirit ever failed to have them. But
be also had hosts of friends among all
classes of citizens, and merited friend
ship from no class more than the poor
and lowly, with whom his naturally
warm heart was ever in most active
sympathy. In another sphere, Charles
| de Young would have become a great
statesman or great general. In this
he was for years leader of men and a
shaper and director of policies and par
ties; and they who stood closest to
| him and best understood him viii all
bear us out in the assertion that what
| ever he did, he did with an eye singlY
to the public welfare, the greatest good
| to the Greatest number