Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
GOLD RUSH PASTOR
DEAD OF INJURIES
DR.. S. Hall Young, Missionary
and Author, Succumbs in
CIarksburg, w. Va.

| By the Associated Press.
| HARRISBURG, w. Va, September
3.-Rey. DR.. S. Hall Young, so, mis-
| sionarv and author. of Seattle. Wash,
died in a hospital here this afternoon
| from injuries received when he
walked In front of an interurban car.
At the time of his injury he was on
| his way to a pioneer celebration to be
| held Sunday at French Creek, near
| Buckhannon.
DR.. Young was the first missionary
in the territory of Alaska, where he
remained for more than 80 years. He
was the author of several books on
religious and missionary work.
DR.. Young was often described as a
Giving history Of the northland," be-
cause he had carried the Gospel by
dog team over snow trails and by
canoe on Summer streams to all sec
tons of Alaska, including the Arctic
coast settlements and even across to
Siberia.
Companion OF Muir.
A companion years ago of John
Muir on Alaska voyages, who
'mushed" with his pack in every big
gold rush. including the stampede to
the hIOIlUlh0 III 1870, anu NCbCldAA
church worker, who organized the
first Protestant church IN Alaska, DR..
Hall lived to write and lecture on his
experiences Among his books were
Alaska Days With John Muir" 1.-THE
Klondike Clan" and Adventures in
Alaska" and on the Presbyterian lee
ture platform in the States he was
known for his intimate knowledge of
the golden north.
DR.. Young was born in Butler, Pa,
September IL, 1S47, the son of min
lister. He attended the University Of
Wooster, Princeton Theological Semi
nary and the Western Theological
Seminary and taught school in Michi-
gan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
before he was ordained in 1878.
AS soon as he was ordained, Dr.
Young went to Wrangell, Alaska, as
a missionary and explorer and spent
10 years on the southeast coast work.
ing among the natives, even before
the white mans law had been taken
to the country. In 1879 and 1880 DIR.
Young and John Muir camped on the
site of Juneau, the present capital
before Joe Juneau made the gold
Muir he explored the glacier that now
bears the latter's name. In 1884 he
established missionary paper, the
Glacier, at Wrangell.
Held Many Pastorates.
Leaving Alaska in 1888, DR.. Young
held pastorates in Long Beach, Calf. !;
Cedar Falls. Iowa; Caberty, ILL.,, and
Wooster, Ohio. For 10 years he re-
NAMED away and then Joined the
stampede across the Chilcott Pass to
the Klondike and established the first
Presbyterian church at Dawson when
that city was wide open.'
Going down the Yukon River the
next year, he established missions at
Eagle and Rampant and then joined
the rush to Nome, where he continued
his work. In 1901 he was named
superintendent of all PRESBYTERIAN
missions in Alaska and in the several
years following lived in Skagway.
Cordova and Fairbanks after follow.
ing the rush to the beach gold discov.
cries at Nome.
DR.. Young left Alaska in 1913 and
went to New York to become special
representative for Alaska on the Pres.
byterian Board of Home Missions.
Eight years later he went north again
to gather material for a book,
DR.. Young married Miss Fannie r
Kellogg in Sitka, Alaska, in 1873. In
1899 he received the degree of doctor
or divinity by Wooster