The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19
DIR. HARRY A. YOUNG.
The Nephew of Brigham Young, Who
Was killed By the Filipinos.

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DR.. Harry \. Young. whose death and
mutiIation through the treachery of the
natives in the fighting around Manila
Wednesday, formed one of the most
shocking details of the dispatches from
our new possessions, is well known in
this city among the medical profession,
and to some extent outside the circles
of his own work. Four years ago he
was an inferno in the Rhode Island
hospital.
He came here from New York, where
he had just been graduated from the
New York College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and after leaving the hos
pital went to his home in Salt Lake
City, Utah, where he established a
profitable practice. At the beginning
of the war he abandoned this TO enlist
in the Utah light artillery, where he
was a sergeant in battery a.
In this he was probably led by the
love of adventure, which has Swayed his
life, for he had been on a sheep ranch
in the west, had been among the cattle
men, and in a lumber camp in Michi-
gan. In the course of a. short life, for
he was hardly more than SO when he
was killed, he had been in nearly every
state in the Union.
The Utah light artillery has worked
in the thickest of the fighting around
Manila since the insurgents provoked
the fighting of Sunday. In the first en-
gagement one of the batteries at least
did superb execution among the savage
hordeS of Aguinaldo, and in the fight
ing that followed the two batteries have
occupied positions at the extreme front.
The Utah artillery was among the
few batteries of the state militia fully
equipped with modern bresch-loading
3.2-inch steel rifles at the beginning Of
the war, having been supplied when the
new state militia was organized about
three yenrS ago. 1t was well trained
and we'll disciplined, and the effects of
its association with the regulars at
Manila have been shown in the work it
has done
Dr. Young was a nephew OF Brigham
Young, the leader of the Mormons, dur
ing his lifetime the head of the church
of the Latter-day Saints. His father
was a brother Of Brigham. and was
polygamist. Although DR.. Young never
said so directly during his say in this
city, it was understood by his closest
friend here that his father had three
wives, and that among a. family of
about two dozen children, the doctor
had been thrown to a great extent upon
his own resources.
May l. 1898. he was admitted to the
hospital for the two years course OF in
terneS during which he served, as is
usual. six months as assistant and six
months as ambulance surgeon, respond
ing with the first or second ambulance
to the calls for accidents. During that
time he created various impressions
among those who knew him. A hard,
earnest worker at the hospital. he alb
horred sham, and was so straightfOr
ward that he offended some who did not
appreciate his directness-
He had many friends but few We're
intimate with him. DR.. William r. Nc
Guirk, then also an inferno at the hos
pital, although six months ahead of Dr.
Young, was probably the closest or
these friends, yet DR.. McGuirk said he
never knew the man thoroughly. When
he thought he had solved the problem,
some fresh and unexpected trait would
develop, and DR.. Young, who seldom
spoke in detail of his previous life, re-
manned an unsolyed riddle to the last.
Always strictly upright and honorable,
abhorring dissipation and foliies, he was
regarded as a fearless man.
Although a member of one of the
most prominent of the Mormon fami-
lies, he was catholic in his religious be-
lief, and attended any church he hap
pened to choose. He belief was in do
ing good wherever possible, and he tried
to carry this out. When he left the
hospital he went to his home, and
short time later settled in practice in
Salt Lake City.
From the first he did well, but the
spirit of unrest was on the man, as it
had always been, and in the few letters
he wrote here to DR.. McGuirk ne limited
of the desire for change, although his
prospects were unusually bright for
young physician. He knew woodcraft
thoroughly. and had. before becoming a
physician, taught for several years, and
led a rowing life.
He came back to this city for visit
after graduating from the hospital, and
before finally settling down to practice,
but was a poor correspondent. and his
letters to DR.. McGuirk ceased alto
gether something more than a year ago.
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