Dr. W. B. Young was born in Henry County in 1865, and is a son of the late Oliver Young. Dr. Young was a graduate of the University of Tennessee Medical Department in 1888 and was the valedictorian of his class. He was associated for some time with Drs. Paul and Duncan Eve Burritt College conferred on him the degree of AM. He took a post-graduate course at Vanderbilt University and in 1895 graduated at the Polyclinic Institute of New York. Dr. Young has for fourteen years-been physician to the Bon Air Coal Land and Lumber Company. He has been kept very busy with the demands of the population of that city which forced him to abandon the chair he held in the Medical Department of the University of the South at Sewanee, as professor of gynecology, a position which he filled with marked distinction for about four years. He did more than any other man to organize the Upper Cumberland Medical Society and was its president. He is very active, energetic, and successful in his profession and stands very high with the officials of the Bon Air Coal Land and Lumber Company. His wife is the daughter of R. Hill, president of the First National Bank of Sparta and they have one child. Dr. Young has invested liberally in the upbuilding of Sparta, and, with J. N. Walling built the Walling & Young block business houses on the Public Square, which block is a credit to Sparta and White County.
Dr. W. B. Young was born in Henry County in 1865, and is a son of the late Oliver Young. Dr. Young was a graduate of the University of Tennessee Medical Department in 1888 and was the valedictorian of his class. He was associated for some time with Drs. Paul and Duncan Eve Burritt College conferred on him the degree of AM. He took a post-graduate course at Vanderbilt University and in 1895 graduated at the Polyclinic Institute of New York. Dr. Young has for fourteen years-been physician to the Bon Air Coal Land and Lumber Company. He has been kept very busy with the demands of the population of that city which forced him to abandon the chair he held in the Medical Department of the University of the South at Sewanee, as professor of gynecology, a position which he filled with marked distinction for about four years. He did more than any other man to organize the Upper Cumberland Medical Society and was its president. He is very active, energetic, and successful in his profession and stands very high with the officials of the Bon Air Coal Land and Lumber Company. His wife is the daughter of R. Hill, president of the First National Bank of Sparta and they have one child. Dr. Young has invested liberally in the upbuilding of Sparta, and, with J. N. Walling built the Walling & Young block business houses on the Public Square, which block is a credit to Sparta and White County.
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