Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-12-29 | Page 4 | Richard W. Young Dead

oo RICHARD W. YOUNG DEAD. A most distinguished citizen of Utah passed away when General Richard W. Young succumbed to acute appendicitis appen-dicitis in Salt Lake City, at 7:20 o'clock Saturday night. Richard W. Young was in Ogden r short time ago, guest of the Univer slty ilub He rave an address deal ing with thf country's unrest md held the close attention of his audience. At this time no one would have selected select-ed him from around the banquet board as the first to answer the great summons. sum-mons. He spoke with vigor., enjoyed the evening and went out of the presence pres-ence of the university men with a Bmfie that told of a body at easr and a mind filled with bright prospect. General Young had a career rich in achievement. Not a day sine his boyhood tvas without promise. When a youngster he was a telegraph operator oper-ator and station agent in Ogden in the employ of the old Utah Central. At 20 years of age he entered West Point, graduating from thp academy in with honor Later he was admitted to the bar. In 1889 he resigned from the army and br-gan the practice of law in I Suit Lake. When the Spanish Ameri-;can Ameri-;can war broke out, he cominanderl Battery A, Utah volunteers, and served with distinction. In the late war he was made colonel 'of the l-Joth field artillery. Later, he i became brigadier general of the 65th I brigade of which the 145th was a part. No Utahn had a more brilliant record rec-ord of accomplishment and, even as . ho yielded to the fatal attack, there was a movement to make him governor gover-nor of this state. The Standard hopes that in the memorial me-morial Utah is to build to the soldier boys of the world war who repre enl ed this state, the name of Rclhard W. Young will appear jn letters of gold.