[2] Young was born enslaved in Kentucky February 4, 1836,[3] before running away to Ohio only to be recaptured and returned to Natchez, Mississippi in 1850 before finally arriving in Vidalia, Louisiana in 1851.
[3][1] Towards the end of the American Civil War Young was active in the Louisiana campaign for black suffrage.
[3] Young founded the four page Republican newspaper called the Concordia Eagle in 1873 which had the motto “Equal Rights to All Men” and was the editor until he was succeeded by James Presley Ball, Jr.[2] He was praised for having an "Intuitive knowledge of men, women and children" and a man that "the white people all loved" but said with much racist language.
[1] Although he did not retain his senate seat for the next session he remained active in politics including being a member of the State Central Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana[6] and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention representing Concordia.
[14] The case was brought before the house and again Young was declared intelligible ending in a resolution supported 52 yays to 22 nays.