Evening star., 1924-12-19
]. R. YOUNG RITES
TOBE TOMORROW
Newspaper Associates to
Serve as PalIbearers-Dr.
! Radcliffe to Officiate.


Young, Civil War veteran, former
representative from Pennsylvania,
and well known newspaper man. who
died at his home, 3445 Ordway street
yesterday. will be held at the resi-
dence tomorrow afternoon, with Rev.
DIR. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeri-
tus of the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church. officiating.
Honorary pallbearers, selected from
Mr.. Young's wide circle of friends
in the newspaper world. are J. Fred
Essary, president of the Gridiron
Club; Francis A. Richardson. Rudolph
Kaufman, Alfred ]. Stofer, David
Barry, Arthur Dunn, J. Harry Cum
ningham and George White. Inter
ment will be in Glenwood cemetery.
The Gridiron quartet, composed of
Jack Bowie. Fred East, William Cla-
baugh and NJ. Harry Stevens, will sing
at the services.
Mr.. Young died in his seventy
eighth year. from the effects of pneu-
monia, which weakened his heart.
He was the second son Of the late
George Rankin Young and brother
of the late John Russell Young. and
was born March 10, 1S47, in Philadel-
phia. His brother was at one time
president of the Union League and
Minister to China. Mr.. Young's edu-
cation was obtained in the Livingston
Grammar and Central High School of
Philadelphia.
Ran Away to Join Army.
1t was during his school life that
the invasion of Pennsylvania was
made by Gen. Lee, and he, with a
number of fellow students, ran away
and enlisted in the regiment of Gray
Reserves, the 32d Pennsylvania In
fantry. Later Mr.. Young became
clerk to Col. James B. Sheridan, pay
master of the Army. This took him
to the Army of the Potomac, and
finally to the concluding scenes at
Appromattox Court House, after which
he returned to New York with Col.
Sheridan, where he aided him in pay
ing off the mustered-out soldiers.
While serving as assistant paymaster
he was frequently under fire, as often
the pay train was attacked by Con-
federate scouts and raiding parties.
In 1865, Mr.. Young, under the
guidance of his brother, entered the
field of journalism, in which, for
time, he served as a reporter. He
then, in lS65-1S66, made tour of
the South, writing letters from that
section to the New York Tribune. On
his return he became one of the
founders of the Philadelphia Evening
Star, which lasted till the beginning
of the twentieth century. In June,
1866, he was appointed Washington
correspondent of the New York Trib-
une, succeeding Gen. Carl Schurz
Mr.. Young remained in that position
five years and was complimented
many times by Horace Greeley. The
offices of the Tribune We're then To-
Gated on famous Newspaper Row,
Fourteenth street, south of street.
Meantime the Philadelphia paper
began to grow and Mr.. Young was
obliged to withdraw from the Tribune
and devote all his time to his own
journal, beginning for it that series
of letters over the signature of IS.
NJ" which he continued for many
years.
Gets Senate Post.
In December, 1873, Mr.. Young was
elected chief executive clerk of the
United States Senate, a position he
held until 1879. Shortly afterward
he was made chief clerk of the De-
partment of Justice, under Attorney
General Brewster, and in 1888, his
party having again gotten control of
the Senate, he was unanimously
elected to fill his old position, which
he held until the office was abolished,
In 1892.
Mr.. Young was elected to the Fifty
fifth, the Fifty-sixth and the Fifty
seventh Congresses from Pennsylva-
MIA during which service he was ac-
tive as member of the merchant
marine and Fisheries committees.
He was appointed superintendent of
the Dead Letter Office of the Post
Office Department, serving from 1905
to 1913. He was then appointed su
perintendent of the postal savings
depository in Philadelphia, where he
served until 1915, when he was re-
tired and came back to Washington
to live.
Mr. Young attended all the national
conventions from 1864 to 1908. He
was vice president of the commission
to locate the position of the Penn
sylvania troops in the battles of
Chattanooga, Chickamauga and Look
out Mountain. He was one of the or
ganizers of the Gridiron Club, and at
the time of his death was one of the
two surviving charter members, Per-
ry S. Heath being the other.
He was a member of the National
Press Club, the Mozart Club of
Masons, the Pen and Pencil Club, the
Stylus Club, the Glover Club and the
Harrison Association. In 1874, Mr..
Young married Miss Mary Barclay of
this city. Their golden wedding an
niversary was celebrated last June.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary
B. Young; two sons, ]. Russell Young,
White House representative of The
Evening Star and James B. Young,
United States consul at Venice; two
daughters, Miss Nan B. Young and
Miss Julia G. Young, both of this city,
and two grandchildren, Miss Mary
Young and Russell Young, also of
Washington.