S. O. Young

From biographical note on finding aid for Dr. S. O. Young Papers.

Dr. Samuel Oliver Young (1848-1926) was a life-long resident of Houston, Texas, except for a twenty-year stay in Galveston. During the Civil War, Dr. Young served in Hood’s Texas Brigade for the Confederate Army. After the war, he graduated from Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) and later received his medical degree from New Orleans Medical College. He practiced medicine in Houston until the death of his mother in 1882. He then helped found the Houston Post. Later, Young became managing editor of the Galveston News and secretary of the Galveston Cotton Exchange. After retirement, Dr. Young was active as a writer of Houston and Texas history and participated in the many reunion events of Hood’s Texas Brigade members.

Maud J. Young, his mother, was an early Houston educator, civic leader, botanist, and author who was born in Beauford, North Carolina, November 1, 1826, and died in Houston, April 15, 1882.

He was an avowed white supremacist and member of the first Klan, who boasted of stealing ballot boxes and other fraudulent acts to defeat Republicans during Reconstruction.

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