John Preston Young was born on April 18, 1847, in Chulahoma, Mississippi.[1][2] His father, Reverend A. W. Young, was a Presbyterian minister.[1] Young was of Scotch-Irish and French descent on his paternal side.[1] He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of twelve.[1]
Young became a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1872.[5] He served as a judge on the Circuit Court from 1902 to 1923.[5]
Young was a member of the Confederate Historical Association,[1] later known as the West Tennessee Historical Society.[6] He was elected as the vice president for West Tennessee of the Tennessee Historical Society in 1915.[7]
Young was the author of The Seventh Tennessee Cavalry (Confederate): A History, Reminiscences of the Civil War, Standard History of Memphis, etc.[2][5]
Young's article entitled Hood's Failure at Spring Hill was published in the January 1908 issue of the Confederate Veteran, "the most in demand of any published after the turn of the century, probably because of Judge Young's sixteen-page article and battle map regarding that controversial subject."[8]
Personal lifeedit
Young had two sons, Garnett Young and Frazier Young, and a daughter, Lucy Young.[4]
Deathedit
Young died on June 6, 1934, in Memphis, Tennessee.[2][3][5]
Referencesedit
^ abcdeAllison, John (1905). Notable Men of Tennessee. Personal and Genealogical with Portraits. Vol. 2. Atlanta, Georgia: Southern Historical Association. pp. 33–35. Retrieved January 12, 2016 – via Internet Archive.
^ abcd"Finding Aid for the John Preston Young Collection". The University of Mississippi Libraries. University of Mississippi. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
^ ab"Veteran Dies". The Anniston Star. Anniston, Alabama. June 7, 1934. p. 1. Retrieved December 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ab"Noted Southern Jurist Dies". The Edwardsville Intelligencer. Edwardsville, Illinois. June 8, 1934. p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ abcde"Veteran Jurist and Author Dies". The Courier News. Blytheville, Arkansas. June 7, 1934. p. 1. Retrieved December 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^"History of WTHS". West Tennessee Historical Society. 23 July 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
^"Historical Society Elects Officers". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. May 12, 1915. p. 8. Retrieved December 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^Goff, Reda C. (Spring 1972). "The Confederate Veteran Magazine". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 31 (1): 45–60. JSTOR 42623281.
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