Jess Young

[1] He attended the Abbey Park School of David James Smeaton in St Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland, as Jesse Young.

In April 1876 a newspaper announcement stated that Young, the "Australian Explorer", would shortly leave England for New Guinea.

[3] At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in May of that year, Young mentioned his particular interest in exploring further the coast beyond the Baxter River there, then so-called, where the SS Ellengowan had made a recent voyage.

[1] Young sailed for New York, around the beginning of November 1878, with backing from Sir Thomas Elder for another expedition in Australia.

[7] He subsequently took positions in business and banking in the USA, returning to the United Kingdom in 1891 where he worked for the Board of Agriculture.