Father: William Proby Young, Sr.
Mother: Susan Bradford Grice
1850 - Lived with parents in Washington, D.C. (father was a clerk)
- Pre-med education at Rittenhouse Academy [Washington, DC]and Columbian College [now George Washington University, Washington, DC]
1855 - M.D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from Washington, D.C. before medical school)
- May have practiced medicine in Middletown, Frederick Co, MD, before the Civil War - according to Hartzler*
1860 - Practiced medicine, Washington, DC (Lived with his father - a clerk and his mother)
07/00/1861 - Pvt., 116th VA Militia
07/15/1862 - Ordered to report to Gen. R. E. Lee for duty as Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Volunteers (S.O. 163/17)
09/01/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry
09/00/1862 - Wounded and taken prisoner, Sharpsburg, VA, while caring for the wounded [according to Hartzler]
09/26/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 07/15/1862
10/07/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
11/05/1862 - Paroled as Prisoner of War, Aiken's Landing [James River], VA
01/05/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry
01/26/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, near Grace Church, VA
03/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, near Grace Church, VA
03/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, near Grace Church, VA
04/12/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, near Orange C.H., VA
07/31/1864 - Acting Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, in the field
08/31/1864 - Acting Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, in the field
09/30/1864 - Acting Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, in the field
01/04/1865 - Acting Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, Gen. P. Cook's Brigade, Gen. R. E. Rodes' Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, Camp Rodes near Petersburg, VA
02/23/1865 - Assigned as Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry [S.O. 45/6]
04/09/1865 - Paroled, Appomattox, VA, as Surgeon., 4th GA Infantry, Gen. P. Cook's Brigade
05/15/1865 - Took Oath of Allegiance to the United States at 395 9th St., between H St. and I St., Washington, DC, and remained in Washington, DC [according to a list of refugees and rebel deserters, Provost Marshal General, Washington, DC]
12/12/1872 - Married, Ida Perry (she died in 1920)
1874 - Practiced medicine, 109 D St. , N.W., Washington, DC
- Member, Medical Society of Washington, DC
1880 - Broker [?insurance], Washington, DC
1890 - Practiced medicine, Washington, DC
1900 - Practiced medicine, Washington City, DC
1910 - Secretary, Franklin Fire Insurance Company, Washington, DC
12/09/1912 - Died, Washington, D.C.

Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/08/2011. Updated, 12/31/2013.
Unpublished database.

*Hartzler = Hartzler, Daniel D [1988] Medical doctors of Maryland in the CSA, Originally published by Tri-State Printing, Inc., Funkstown, MD. Reprinted in expanded form by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg, MD, 1988.