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Young, Andrew, acting Bishop of Castle Dale Ward, Emery Stake of Zion from 1899 to 1902, was born August 30, 1842, at Holywell Town, Northumberland, England.
In a brief autobiography written for this volume Elder Young states: "As a boy I attended the common schools till my ninth year, when I went to work in the coal mines. In my youth I was connected with the Methodist Church. Being naturally religiously inclined, and of an inquiring turn of mind, I soon discovered a vast difference existing between the doctrines taught by men and those of the Holy Scriptures. I soon drifted away from the Churches and associated myself with those known as "free thinkers" where I remained till I first heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ taught by a Latter-day Saint Elder. On investigating the truth I became convinced of its divine origin, and was baptized into the Church April 12, 1879, by Elder Geo. Crane. A few months later I was ordained a Priest and on January 23, 1881, I was ordained an Elder by Wm R. Webb. For a period of two years I labored as a counselor in the presidency of the Bebside branch of the Church. In 1883 I emigrated to Utah and located in Castle Gate, where I still reside. For several years I labored in Castle Gate as a Ward teacher. I was ordained a High Priest June 13, 1897, by President C. G. Larsen and set apart to serve as first counselor in the Castle Gate Ward Bishopric, in which capacity, I labored until November 12, 1899, when I was set apart to preside as acting Bishop of Castle Gate by President Reuben G. Miller. I was honorably released from my labors in the Bishopric April 27, 1902, and set apart as president of Religion Class work in the Ward."
Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. Salt Lake City 2:92 |
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