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Show uu COLONEL YOONG'S LONG SERVICE Being Brigadier General Not New to Utah Officer. Of-ficer. CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cal., May 9 There is nothing new in helnp a bricadier general to Colonel Richard Rich-ard Whitehead Young, whose confirmation confir-mation in 1 hat rank recently announced. an-nounced. He held that rank in the national guard of T't.th la lS9.r and 1 1896. Nor Is active service new to him, for he was a major, commanding the Utah licht artillery, throughout its Bervlce in the Philippine Islands which followed the Spanish-American war. General. Young sraduafd from the Tnited States Military academy at West Point. N. Y. with the class of 1882, and was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the Fifth field artillery'. I-ter he became cap-tAin cap-tAin and was made actmc judge advocate, advo-cate, but assigned from the army in April. 1889. The call of the army found him, however, and when the Spanish -American war broke out he was an officer of-ficer of the Utah national guard. With the artillery of that service he went to the Philippine islands where later h served as chief or artillery for Major General McArthur in his Malolos campaign. cam-paign. When the military situation in the Philippines had quieted down, the then major was appointed a mcmbtr of the supreme bench of the Philippines Philip-pines where he served from 1899 to 1901. Returning to this country and his home in Utah, he continued his interest in-terest in the national guard and was colonel of the First Utah artillery when the United States began war against Germany. He was mustered into federal service in that rank, and continued at the head of the same organization, or-ganization, now known as the One Hundred Forty-fifth field artillery, until un-til promoted. General Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1868. and is a grandson of Brigham Young. |