Show BglGABJERGERERAL YOUNG fc eov WEST SEIiBGrS A COIIA1H1ER ZFQR THE aTATZOXAIi GUARD < oJ CAiumission Presented Er Iilcuten IY V ant Dcrre3r IHcharfla of the Signal l Corys General YonTicf Civic ana Sifimtary Career He Will Assume Cammana at Once V V governor West yesterday appointed Richard W Young brigadIergeneral commanding the National Guard of Utah General Youngs commIssIon was at once made out and forwarded him by iirsl Lieutenant Frank Dewey Richards Rich-ards of the faignal corps Biogrniiilcnl V Richard W Young is i the son of the late Joseph A Young the eldest son of President Brigham Young and Margaret J YoUfag He was born In this city in April 1S58 V He was employed em-ployed in the office of the Utah Central Cen-tral railroad at the Salt Lake depot in 1S723 worked as a carpenter and architects assistant on the temple Mock in 18756 taught the ifanti High school in the winter of 18767 was agent for the Utah northern railroad at Ogden during the winter of 18778 and attended school in this city chiefly at the Dcseret University during the remainder of his youth prior to 1873 In the spring of the latter year he was appointed as cadet from Utah to the United States Military academy at West Point from which institution lie graduated four years later Into the FIfth artillery His first station was Governors island where he served as post adjutant and where he remained for four and a half years graduating in the meantime at the law school of Columbia V college General Young served as captain and acting judge advocate of the Department of the east on the staff of General Hancock in 1SS56 and was transfererd to the light battery at Fort Douglas In the fall of the latter year where he served foe two years He resigned from the army In Oct 1888 on a six months leave of absence j practiced law in this city tooth alone and as a member of the firm of Young Young Moyle until un-til April of last year when he assumed the general editorial and busIness management of this paper V He has served as a member of the city council and was for four year member and yicepresi lent of the board of education He will remain with The Herald giving such attention atten-tion to his military position aa it may demand V During his term o service at uov ernors island General Young wrote at the request of the Military Service i Institution < of the United States a I work on Mobs and the Military treating the subject both from the legal le-gal apd iactical standpoints This I work has been adopted by several of the states for the use of the militia I General Young will assume command of the guard at once |