Facts: - death place: salt lake city , utah - branch: united states army - caption: major richard w. young utah light artillery - placeofburial label: place of burial - death date: 27 december 1919 - allegiance: united states united states of america - relations: brigham young -lrb- grandfather -rrb- - birth date: 19 april 1858 - laterwork: attorney - name: richard whitehead young - image size: 200 - image: richard w young.jpg - birth place: salt lake city , utah - rank: brigadier general Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of richard whitehead young .
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richard whitehead young -lrb- april 19 , 1858 -- december 27 , 1919 -rrb- was a u.s. army brigadier general and an associate justice of the supreme court of the philippines during the time that the philippines was a u.s. territory .young was born in salt lake city in 1858 , to joseph a. young and his wife margaret whitehead .joseph young was the son of brigham young and his wife mary ann angell .he entered west point in 1878 , and graduated 15th in the class of 1882 and was commissioned in the field artillery .in 1884 he graduated from columbia law school , and practiced as a military attorney until 1888 , when he returned to utah to open a private law practice .he reentered the military during the spanish-american war , and led the utah light artillery in the philippines .when the war ended , he was appointed as an associate justice of the u.s. territory of the philippines supreme court .he later returned to private legal practice , acting as attorney for the idaho sugar company -lrb- later becoming the utah-idaho sugar company -rrb- .in 1918 he was commissioned as a brigadier general , and he led a u.s. artillery brigade in france .he died of appendicitis in 1919 .richard young married minerva richards , the daughter of henry phinehas richards and margaret minerva amanda empey .henry richards was a son of phinehas richards and his wife wealthy dewey , and thus a brother of franklin d. richards .this means that richard and minerva were third cousins , since they both descended from phineas howe and susannah goddard .young 's daughter minerva was the wife of adam s. bennion .