Richard Whitehead Young

Infobox Military Person
name=Richard Whitehead Young
born= birth date|1858|4|19
died= death date and age|1919|12|27|1858|4|19


caption=
placeofbirth=Salt Lake City, Utah
placeofdeath=Salt Lake City, Utah
placeofburial=
allegiance=flagicon|United States United States of America
branch= United States Army
serviceyears=1882–1888 1898–1899 1918–1919
rank= Brigadier General
unit=
battles=Philippine-American War World War I
relations=Brigham Young (grandfather)
laterwork=attorney

Richard Whitehead Young (April 19, 1858 - December 27, 1919) was a U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of U.S. Territory of the Philippines Supreme Court.

Young was born in Salt Lake City in 1858, a grandson of Brigham Young.

He entered West Point in 1878, and graduated 15th in the Class of 1882. In 1884 he graduated from Columbia University 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 troops 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.

In 1918 he was commissioned as a brigadier general, and he led a U.S. infantry brigade in France.

He died of appendicitis in 1919.

ee also

Richards-Young family

External links/Sources

[http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/captainrichardwyoungandspanish-americanwar.html Richard W. Young info at Utah History To Go] Persondata
NAME = Young, Richard Whitehead
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = United States Army general of World War I
DATE OF BIRTH = April 19, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH = Salt Lake City, Utah
DATE OF DEATH = December 27, 1919
PLACE OF DEATH = Salt Lake City, Utah