The Opelousas courier., 1905-10-21
God wiued It SO.

God Wiued II 30
fternoon OF October 5th, in
| Vile Platte, his home, Dr. Il. L. Young
departed from this life at the e of 56
years and six months. He was born
March %, 1S49, at Plaquemine Ridge, in
St. Landry Parish, aud was the 4tb
child of Madison Young and Mary Ann
Richard, both deceased, the latter pre-
ceeded her doctor son by fifteen months.
DR.. Yonng's early schooling was OBJ
tanned in St. Landry's renowned old ill.,
stitution, The Franklin College, located
at Opelousas. He then entered the
medical department of the University
of Louisiana at New Orleans, now Tu-
lane University, graduating with dis
tinctiOn from that institution in the
spring of 1872.
He first began his professional career
OIL Bayou Boeuf, soon afterwards re-
moving to Vile Plate, then a little viii
lage far ont in the primitive con
passed by broad p~rairies and the gradual
prairie swells that gave it its character
istic I'M
the faith and confidence Of bis people,
and in time came to enjoy a most lMcra-
tive and ideal country practice.
At the age Of 30 he married Miss
Valentine z. Archinard of Alexandria,
La, who died some years afterwards,
leaving the Doctor with Il single off
spring, Z. T., Jr., who lives to-day and
who is on the eve of his majority and Il
promising career of success and useful
ness.
DR.. Young mingled in politics at
variOns periods in his life. He was a
legislator in the house of representa-
tives once, caroner of st. Landry par
lsl, later deputy coroner; candidate for
sheriff; and again candidate for the
o office.
His private life was u strange admix-
ture of sunshine and cloud, success and
disappointment, but through it all he
was gonerous-a beau idol of generosi-
ty. OF the Cardinal virtues charity is
first, and he was charitable to IL fault.
His home vas the slleltering refuge of
the wanderer and beiatcd. His hospi-
tality extended to the wealthy pros
peetor and belated stranger as well as
latter of whom he found his truest
friends and stauncllest supporters.
His home was the happy meeting
place of grand mother, children and
grand children, and delightful memo
rles still cling around that sacred gath
ering piace-memOries akin to an af-
fectlonate worship.
DIR. Young was, in the strict sense of
the word, IL self made nan. His strug-
gle for al education against the un-
fortunate circumstances that combined
to crush out every vestige of ambition,
was wonderful, superhuman. Among
tho thousands of Southern planters
whose lands had been desolated and
homes dismantled by the ravagings of
war, was that of Madison Young, father
of our subject. When Dir. Young re-
ceived his hard earned medical degree
from the old University of Louisiana,
a mere stIippling, beardless boy, he
turned to face the ~exigencies of real
life with a widowed mother, a widowed
sister and a helpless little brother and
sister dependant upon him for Il sup
brances and his humble beginning he
was accounted at his death one Of the
independently rich men of St. Landry.
He was moi Only a student OF medi-
cine but a student of the civil and So
cial conditions of men. His profession
often brought him into the humble
homes of poverty and distress-the
homes Of those wifo truly live the sim
pie life. These experiences gave to his
public as we'll as private life a philan-
.throphic tendency marking him for the
sings and arrows of unrighteous poll
cal enemies.
"Did | know him in life? Yes, as
brother knows brother. | knew him
and loved him, twas all [ could give."|
| knew him best as a child knows a
father, and happy was | when I could
be with him in his quiet hours OF re-
t%rospection and learn of those things
and conditions of which his wide ex-
p~erience and close observation had
made him SO accurately familiar.
He leaves behind him three brothers |
and two sisters, all heads of families, |
beside many other relatives ia St. Ian
dry parish and elsewhere. His remains |
were inferred in the Catholic cemetery |
at Church Point by those of his sister
and mother who had only shortly PEE
him, to use his own favorite
quotations, ito that undiscovered coun-
try, from whose bourn no traveller re-
With generous heart he freely gave
To the poorly clad, unsbod-
Around his faults let charity cling,
While we cover him with the sod.
ONE WHO KNEW HIM.