She started her career in the theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television.

1924 saw her on Broadway in Dancing Mothers opposite John Halliday and Helen Hayes, who played the daughter later made famous by Clara Bow in a silent film.

Beginning in 1905, Young and her husband, actor John Craig, operated Boston's Castle Square Theatre for 21 years.

[citation needed] She and her husband, actor John Craig,[3][4] had two children, the eldest of whom, Harmon Bushnell Craig, was killed at 22 while serving in World War I.

After several years of illness, Young suffered a fatal heart attack in La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1971, aged 92.