Paul Murray Young Biography


	This biography appears on page 40 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				PAUL MURRAY YOUNG. 

	Paul Murray Young, engaged in the practice of law at Mitchell, is 
one of the younger representatives of the bar to whom early manhood 
seems no check to professional progress. In fact, he has won a position 
that many an older representative of the legal profession might well 
envy. Mitchell is his native town, his birth having there occurred 
August 3, 1884. His parents were Clark Montgomery and Retta (Murray) 
Young, natives of Holmes and Portage counties, Ohio, respectively. They 
arrived in South Dakota in 1883 and Professor Young was dean of the 
College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of South Dakota in 
Vermillion to the time of his death. He had been identified with the 
University for more than twenty years and was thus a prominent figure 
in educational circles of the northwest. His wife still resides at 
Vermillion. 

	Paul Murray Young, the eldest in a family of three sons and one 
daughter, supplemented his public-school course by study in the State 
University from which he was graduated with the class of 1903. He 
secured the first Rhodes scholarship from this state and in 1904 went 
to Oxford, England, continuing his studies there until graduated with 
honors in law in 1907. He represented the University of Oxford in field 
athletics and personally won the high and broad jumps. Following his 
return to America he was director of athletics in Huron College for one 
year and for two years at the State Normal School at Aberdeen, South 
Dakota. He then entered the law school of the State University and was 
graduated with the class of 1912. He was also a prominent 
representative of athletic interests at the State University, playing 
on all the football and baseball teams and holding the tennis 
championship In 1912 he entered the law office of T. J. Spangler, 
senior partner in what is now the firm of Spangler & Haney and at the 
present writing is devoting his attention to professional interests. 

	On the 7th of October, 1913, Mr. Young was married to Miss Alice 
Stenerson of Menomonie, Wisconsin. He belongs to Phi Delta Theta and to 
Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity, holds membership with the Masons and 
the Elks and is also a member of the Baptist church-associations which 
indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern 
his conduct. He has been a lifelong resident of the northwest and is 
imbued with the spirit of progress and enterprise characteristic of 
this section of the country.