S. Dilworth Young

S. Dilworth Young
Emeritus General Authority
September 30, 1978 (1978-09-30) – July 9, 1981 (1981-07-09)
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
First Quorum of the Seventy
October 3, 1975 (1975-10-03) – September 30, 1978 (1978-09-30)
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
End reason	Granted general authority emeritus status
First Council of the Seventy
April 6, 1945 (1945-04-06) – October 1, 1976 (1976-10-01)
Called by	Heber J. Grant
End reason	Honorable release
Personal details
Born	Seymour Dilworth Young September 7, 1897(1897-09-07) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Died	July 9, 1981(1981-07-09) (aged 83) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Seymour Dilworth Young (September 7, 1897 – July 9, 1981) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for 36 years, from 1945 until his death.

From 1945 to 1975, Young was the senior president of the First Council of the Seventy of the LDS Church. In 1975 he was sustained as member of newly-created First Quorum of Seventy.

Young was a graduate of Weber College (now Weber State University). He served in the United States military during World War I. After this he served as a missionary in the Central States Mission. Young and his wife Gladys Pratt were the parents of two children.

Young is known as an author and poet among members of the church. Young is the author of a biography of his great-great-uncle, LDS Church President Brigham Young. Many of Dilworth Young's poems have been published in the Ensign. He is son of Seymour B. Young, Jr. and Carlie Louine Clawson. He married Gladys Pratt and had 2 children, one of whom died in World War II. Following his first wife's death he married Huldah Parker.

Between 1947 and 1951, Young was the president of the New England Mission of the church.

Young is the grandson of Latter-day Saint leader Seymour B. Young, the nephew Levi E. Young and the great-grandson of Joseph Young. He is also a descendant of Edward Partridge. After his wife Gladys died, Young married Huldah Parker.

Young is the subject of a biography by grandson Benson Y. Parkinson (Covenant, 1994).

External links

• Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: S. Dilworth Young
• Leon R. Hartshorn. Outstanding Stories by General Authorities. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1970) Vol. 1, p. 225.

Persondata
Name	Young, S. Dilworth
Alternative names
Short description	Member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints's First Quorum of Seventy
Date of birth	7 September 1897
Place of birth	Salt Lake City, Utah
Date of death	9 July 1981
Place of death	Salt Lake City, Utah