Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-14
rslls Dead Sunday at His Home. In Hen
rico County, Aged seventy-threo
Years. 90, &c.

ssats--his friend of many yesrs--told
Not 10 try to 90 to Culpeper unless
If cure that he was we'll enough |;
81 any rate TO see his physician.
b3opsI Young said that he thought he
ould be equal to the OCCASION" and
,onid 70. lie, however, went to see
"a phy sician, DR.. Cullen, who pre-
kribed for him and warned him against
ndus exercise and excitement.
Sunday Colonel Young was hardly as
xell as usual, but he ate dinner with
his family with tolerable relish; his
wife packed his vslise for him, and his
son Ormond got ready to drive him to
Richmond.
DIED LOOKING AT THE SKY.
About Ais o'clock Colonel Young
began to be impatient to start, but
hesyy cloud was rising, and his son
suggested thst il would be well to wait
awhile. as there was plenty Of time.
Boih then went into the porch to look
i At the sky. They had hardly been out
&4be,e minute when most unusual
allor came over bis face, and, placing
: hand upon his sons shoulder, he
& - "My son, am dying" and i'm
ksly began to sink, and died in
on's arms almost before the young
|3hn could lay him upon the floor.
4 Dsssh was no doubt caused by heart
d;sesse. For that DR.. Cullen had
treated hin, and Colonel Young, in his
conversation with Mr.. Peasants Satur-
day. stated that some years ago be had
suffered considerably from heart trou-
bic.
THE YOUNG LAWYER.
Colonel Young was born in 1913 on
the farm where he died. His father
vas William Young, Esq, who was for
many years State Inspector Of Tobacco
at ShOckoe Warehouse.
Deceased enjoyed excellent educa-
tional advantages, and took the degree
ofM 4. at the University Of Virginia.
Having studied law at the University,
he entered into partnership with the
late John A. Meredith, and their Office
WAS for yesrs in q building which occu-
pied the site of the present pOst-Oflice.
The partnership was eminently sac
cessful, and was only dissolved when
Mr.. Meredith was elected to the bench
Of the Circuit Court.
IN THE CONVENTION.
When the Virginia Convention was
decidedupon in 1851, General Williams
c. Wickham, citizen of Hanover, was
elected by the Union men Of Henrico to
represent that county. When, how
ever, the ordinance Of secession was
passed General Wickham resigned his
membership, placed himselfat the head
OF the II anoyer troop, Of which ne was
captain, entered the army, and went to
the front. The vacancy thus made in
the Convention Colonel Young was
elected to fill, and in the Convention,
which sat for some time afterwards, he
distinguished himself by conscientious
discharge OF his duties and by ability to
cope in debate with the best talent
there.
Though really q man Of very supe-
rior literary capacity and well learned
in the classics and in the literature of
our times, his speeches were ever more
notable for their sound sense and sledge-
hammer blows than for rhetorical finish;
though when it pleased him so to do he
could make as "pretty speech" as
nearly anybody.
PUBLIC POSITIONS.
Colonel Young was for years and
years attorney for the Commonwealth
for HenricO county, and showed marked
fitness for the position.
One OF the earliest cases Of note that
he prosecuted was that Of Nimrod Dick
inson for killing Haley at the Fair
Grounds, which were 10 Henrico county,
where now is Monroe Park.
In 1868, in the full maturity Of his
powers, the Drinker' 's.farm murder WAS
committed. and il became his duty to
prosecute Jeter Phillips. All unaided,
be prosecuted that accused before the
Magistrates Court lover which Mr..
George d. Peasants presided), and at
the two jury trials, and finally in the
Supreme Court OF Appeals. The de-
fence had Judge Crump, Marmadnke
johnson, Alexander B. Guigon, and
George W. Thomas. With these Colo
nel Young successfully bsttled, and did
an amount Of labor almost incredible.
That case occupied his attention for
two years, and il was necessary that
be should give nearly all Of his time
10 il.
Before that Colonel Young IA title
be earned in the militia seryice) was
known as q lawyer Of fine judgment,
of readiness Of resource, and Of in-
domitable courage and perseverance,
but such was the signal ability he dis
PLAYED in the collection Of evidence,
in the examination Of witnesses, in
arguing the incest lsw-points, and in
presenting the case to the jury, and
afterwards in support Of the verdict
before the Supreme Court, that he was
at once, in the opinion Of the bar, tis-
waited to the foremost rank Of Virginia
lawyers, and there he continued to
stand.
Colonel Young ceased to be Common
wealth's attorney for Henrico about
1870, and never afterwards held public
Office. lie was candidate for Con-
gress about 1878, and received very
flstteriDg vote, but the people Of the
district thought that the honor was due
General Joe Johnston, and to that dis.
tinguished military chieftain the nomi-
nation and election were given. That
he submitted with good grace need not
be said to those who knew him we'll. lie
was dear lover Of his State--pstriotic,
loyal, and afectionste--and there was
never Q time when he was not ready to
give her the best fruits Of his service or
sacrifice.
HIS TRAITS.
Colonel Young, though to strangers
seemingly brus9ue, was really one of
the kindest, AZ be was certainly ono OF
the most correct, of men. lie was
stesdfast and true to his friends, and in
the midst Of his family was as tender