Memorable Manitobans: David Young (1847-1931)

Physician.

Born at Sarnia, Ontario on 18 February 1847, he graduated in medicine from Queen’s University, Kingston, in 1871. He moved to Manitoba in June 1871 and practiced medicine at St. Andrew’s Rapids, near Lockport, making his home at Hawthorne Lodge on the banks of the Red River. On 11 September 1872, he married Rosina Anabella Somerville of Huntingdon, Quebec. They had five children: Richard H. Young, Mary Young (b 1878), Walter B. Young (b 1880), Philip C. Young (b 1883), and Alexander Arthur Young (b 1886).

He provided medical service for the Manitoba Penitentiary at Lower Fort Garry from 1871 to 1877. In 1877 he became Indian agent and medical officer for the Clandeboye Indian agency. In 1884 the provincial government appointed him medical superintendent of the projected mental hospital at Selkirk, completed in May 1886. He remained at the head of the institution until March 1912, when he retired to private life.

He died at Winnipeg on 16 October 1931 and was buried in the Little Britain Cemetery, near his home. Many of his daily journals are at the Archives of Manitoba.

Sources:

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Birth and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Oldest physician in Manitoba succumbs” Manitoba Free Press, 17 October 1931.

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Manitoba Library Association, 1971.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Profile revised: 7 March 2010

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