Bio of YOUNG, George E. (b.1864), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 168-171
GEORGE E. YOUNG
It is seldom that one wins success along three such distinct lines of business
as the conduct of a successful law school and of an equally successful fur house
and as a practicing attorney, but this George E. Young is accomplishing, proving
thoroughly adequate and capable in each field of labor. He is now the president
and dean of the Northwestern College of Law, is also at the head of the large
fur house conducted under the style of J. B. Wicks & Company and as a
practitioner of law is advancing the interests of his many clients. He was born
in Iroquois county, Illinois, June 9, 1864, and is a son of Morgan C. and Amanda
J. (Maskall) Young, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in
Indiana. The father was a farmer and mechanic, who, in the year 1871, removed
from Illinois to Minnesota and located at Madelia, where he passed away in 1895.
For a num­ber of years he had survived his wife, who died in December, 1883.
George E. Young was educated in the public schools of Madelia, having been a lad
of but seven years when brought to Minnesota by his parents. He afterward
attended Hamline University and then entered the University of Minnesota as a
law student, there winning his LL. B. degree in June, 1891. The same year he was
admitted to practice at the Minnesota bar and entered upon the active work of
his profession in Minneapolis, where in the intervening years he has gained a
large clientele. He has been connected with many important cases tried in the
courts here and his ability is attested by all who have heard his forceful
presentation of a cause or listened to the logic of his arguments. In 1912 the
Northwestern Col­lege of Law was established, with George E. Young as the
president and dean and since that time he has been in charge of the school,
which is an evening institution and which has graduated more than one hundred
and twenty students. There is an average attendance of about two hundred
students and the school has been a success from the beginning. Mr. Young is now
preparing a volume to be published soon, entitled "Historical Jurisprudence,
Elementary Law and History of Consti­tutional Law," a book which treats of his
specialties as an instructor of law. He is today regarded as one of the foremost
representatives of the Minneapolis bar, accorded distinction by his colleagues
and contemporaries in the profession, who recognize his power and ability in the
preparation and the presentation of a cause. He is at all times ready for any
emergency that may arise and he is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application
of a legal principle, while his knowledge of jurisprudence is comprehensive and
exact.
Into another and entirely different field of labor Mr. Young extended his
efforts in July, 1911, when he became interested in the retail fur business in
this city, giving financial backing to a store of this character. Later he took
over the busi­ness and has since superintended all the details thereof with the
assistance of a manager, at the same time neglecting no part of his law
practice. The enterprise is conducted under the name of J. B. Wicks & Company
and the firm maintains one of the leading establishments of this character in
the city, at No. 1005 Nicollet avenue, carrying a large stock of all kinds of
furs.
On the 27th of December, 1897, Mr. Young was married to Miss Alice A. Per-kins,
formerly a teacher in the high schools of Minneapolis. Mr. Young is identified
with the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Minneapolis Lodge, No. 19,
A. F. & A. M., of Minneapolis, and that he has attained high rank in the order
is indicated in his membership in Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. During the
World war he was active on the food administration board and was a captain in
one of the Liberty Loan drives. He belongs to the Minnesota State and American
Bar Asso­ciations and there is no member of the profession who more thoroughly
exemplifies its advanced ethics and high standards.