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with physical and mental activity, and uncommon nat- ural courage. Under the care of his affectionate moth- er, he grappled with many of those great thoughts which afterwards swelled his mature and manly heart. The simple grandeur of the New Test, impressed iiis mind, while the history and sufferings of iiis Saviour won his heart and kindled his most ardent love. In early manhood he moved with his father to Kentucky ; joined the Methodists; felt himself called to preach, and, without formal Church authority, preached his lirst ser- mon, saw the congregation bathed in tears, and felt in his own soul the heavenly unction. In 1801 he was licensed to preach, and under the direction of William McKendree, afterwards bishop, was thrust out on a large frontier circuit. For fifty -five years Mr. Young was engaged in the itinerancv. He travelled ex- tensively, everywhere attended by marvellous success. He died Sept. IG, 1859. He was a man of great intel- lectual power, habitually prompt, laborious, unswerving ; great in his Christian character, great in his fidelity, great in his success. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1860, p. 233 ; Simpson, Cijclop. of Methodism, s. v. ; and his A utobioffi-cq}fii/.
Young, John Clarke, D.D., a Presbyterian min- ister, son of the Rev. John Young, was born at Green- castle, Pa., Aug. 12, 1803. He prosecuted his prepara- tory studies under John Borland, an eminent teacher of New York city; and studied three years in Columbia College, when he removed to Dickinson College, gradu- ating in 1823. He entered Princeton Theological Sem- inary in 1824, where he remained two years; then in
1826 became tutor in the College of New Jersey, where he served until 1828. He was licensed in the spring of
1827 by the Presbytery of New York ; and, on leaving Princeton, was settled as pastor of the McChord Presby- terian Church of Lexington, K_v. In the fall of 1830 he was chosen president of Centre College, Danville, and filled the office with great credit to himself during the remainder of his life. In 1834 he assumed, in connec- tion with the presidency of the college, the office of pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Danville, in which relation, also, he remained until his death, which oc curred June 23, 1857. He published a number of single Sermons, Speeches, and A ddresses. See Sprague, A nnals of the Anier. Pulpit, IX, iv. 44.
Young, John Kimball, D.D., a minister of the Congregational Churcli, was born at Dover, N. H., March 22, 1802. His preparator}' studies were pursued at Do- ver Academj'^ ; he entered Dartmouth College at the age of fifteen, and graduated in 1821. He was a teacher in Dover Academy, and in Charleston, S, C, from January, 1824, to July, 1827 ; graduated from Andover Theologi- cal Seminary in 1829, and was ordained in Boston, Sept. 24, 1829; was the agent of the American Bible Society from 1829 to 1831; installed pastor at Laconia, N. H. (then Meredith Bridge), Nov. 29, 1831, and was dis- missed Feb. 12, 1867. He was acting pastor at Hop- kinton from 1867 to 1874. From 1842 he was a cor- porate member of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions; from 1846 to 1858, also from 1861 to 1873, he was a trustee of the New Hamp- shire Missionary Society; for a time was a trustee of the Gilmanton Academy and Theological Seminary; was corresponding secretarj- of the New Hampshire General Association from 1851 to 1861, was moderator of it in 1866, and from 1849 was a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He died at Laconia. Jan, 28, 1875. See Co7iff. Quar. 1876, p. 437 ; 1877, p. 576.
Young, John R., D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Marlborough, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1820. He graduated at Union College, and subsequently at Union Theological Seminary. After his ordination he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Phelps, N. Y. ; and subsequently he became stated supply of Painted Post, Baldwinsville, Cortland, and Keesville, all in N. Y. A
second pastorate in Plattsburg lasted five years; from Plattsburg he removed to Jlamaroncck, and from thence to Newport, K. I. He was [lastor at tJreenbush, N. Y., for two years, and stated supply at Albany for two years following. After this he served a short time at Newark, N. Y., and at Tecumsch, Mich.; also at Clyde, where he was taken ill, and returned to Albanj'. He died at Norfolk, Va., July 30, 1879. See Nccroloyical Report of Union Theological Seminart/.
Young, Matthew, D.D., a distinguished Irish prelate and mallieniatician, was born in the County of Roscommon in 1750. He prosecuted his studios at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was admitted in 1766 ; became a fellow in 1775, and entered into holy orders. In 1786 he was chosen professor of natural philosophy in the same institution, and greatly enlarged his course of instruction, introducing illustrations by means of a|)- paratus. He was one of the founders of the Royal Irish Academy, which began active work in 1782. He was appointed by lord Cornwallis bishop of Clonfert and KiU machduagh; and died Nov. 28, 1800. He published a number of mathematical and philosophical papers and essays, and left in MS. a Latin Commentari/ on the First Two Books of Xewton's Principia. See Knight, Engl. Cyclop. Biog. vi, 892; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. ; Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.