Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-10
brief ILLNESS FATAL
Or. Edward Young Dies at the
Age of Ninety-Five.
STURDY UP TO THE LAST
Brisk Step and Voice Strong Despite
His Advanced Age.
WAS AUTHORITY ON STATISTICS
Eleven Years Consul at Windsor,
Nova Scotia, Of Which Country
He Was q Native.
WAS AUTHORITY ON STATISTICS

Or. Edward Young. an authority on
labor and manufactures. for eight years
chief Of the bureau of statistics, and the
United States consul at Windsor. Nova
Scotia, from 1886 to 1897. died at his
home 400 A street southeast, last night
at o'clock after three days illness.
He was ninety-five years Of age. His
death was due to uraemic poisoning.
Funeral services will be held Monday
at his home at 400 A street southeast.
Interment will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
In spite of DR.. Young's years his step
was brisk, his voice was clear and
strong and his eyesight good up to his
last illness. He always attributed the
light weight which years had put upon
him to his abstinence from tobacco and
liquor
Native Of Nova Scotia.
DR.. Young was a relative of Grover
Cleveland. He was born in Wolfville.
Nova Scotia, but his parents were Ameri-
cans. who moved to Canada shortly after
the revolutionary war. DIR. Young spent
his boyhood In Nova Scotia, went to Ar
cadta College and in 1885. when he was
.Wenty-one years old. emigrated to Ohio.
then frontier region. Shortly after that
ne pushed westward to Indiana. but dlo
mis- lifework. and made the journey from
mis- farm in Indiana to this city on horse
Jack.
While in Washington the young trav-
eler heard Clay, Webster and Calhoun
speak in the Senate and listened to a
former President. John Quincy Adams.
in the House. After that he returned to
Nova Scotia and from there made a voy-
age to the West Indies. A few years
later he went to Boston and from there
RI nv for nf
years he compiled and published books
dealing with the statistics of commerce
and manufacture, visiting the leading
manufacturers In all the states The
books were philadelphia and Its Manu-
features" Leading Pursuits and Leading
Men" and "A Complete History of Amer
lean Manufactures from 1COS to 1850"
which was an exhaustive work and IS
still regarded as mine OF information.
Authority on Manufactures.
In 1861 DR.. Young came to Washington
again at the urgent request Of Mr.. Ken
nedy, superintendent of the census of
1850. The returns Of the manufactures of
the country were incomplete. and DR..
Young was made a chief Of division and
q large number of clerks were assigned
to him. He sent out a great number of
blanks to manufacturers. who returned
was compiled by DR.. Young and published
In a separate volume.
At the close of the civil war. during
which the internal revenue taxation was
high, David A. Wells was appointed
tariff commissioner. Congress then re-
duced those rates and also the rates on
imports. In this work Mr.. Wells en-
gagged DR.. Young as his assistant in order
to gain the knowledge OF the manufac-
lures of the country which DR.. Young
had cleaned. At the suggestion Of Mr..
Wells. a bureau Of statistics was author
ized by Congress July Is. 1865. February
I, 1869. DIR. Young was appointed to the
bureau. and July I. 1870. he was made
chief. which position he held until Au-
gust 1875 when he resigned
While chief Of the bureau Dr. Young
compiled several books which proved of
great value the frst being Information
TOR Immigrants" which he had trans
lated into French and German Thirty
thousand copies were bought by steam
ship companies and distr buted In Europe.
After that book he busted himself with
he produced his most important work.
Labor in Europe and America q VOL
ume OF 8S4 pages. which followed the
cost OF labor from the time OF Julius
Caesar down to the year OF the book s
publication.
Honored by the Gear.
He was a delegate to the eighth ses-
sion of the international statistical con-
Rress, held in st. Petersburg In August.
1872. and was later appointed honorary
vice president. The Grand Duke Con-
stantine brother OF Alexander III, was
president. One Of DR.. Youngs favorite
stories was that while attending . din