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Joseph
Young
Dr. Joseph Young was the brother of Dr. Thomas Young.
He
was born in Little Britain in 1735, the son of Irish
immigrants/refugees John and Mary Crawford Young
who came to America during the late 1720s. During
the 1760s, Joseph Young accompanied his older brother
to Albany and later took over Thomas Young's medical
practice. In 1761, he married Sharon Brown of Amenia,
Dutchess County - where he lived prior to coming
to Albany.
By
1766, he was identified as an Albany home owner.
Earlier that year, he joined his brother in signing
the constitution of the Albany Sons of Liberty. His
home was located on Albany's Southside near the Cartwright's
King's Arms Tavern.
In
1775, he joined the crusade for American liberties
when he was elected to the Albany Committee of Correspondence.
He served until the end of 1776. At the same time,
he had been appointed surgeon to the Ninth Connecticut
Regiment of the Continental line. He later received
a land bounty right in conjunction with the First
Regiment of the Albany County militia.
Following
the death of his brother in 1777, Thomas Young's
widow and son moved to Albany and in with Joseph.
In 1778, he was made director of the Albany hospital. In 1781, he was promoted
to hospital physician surgeon and served to
the end of the war.
He
was the author of one of the first if not the first
medical textbook in United States
After the war, Joseph Young removed to New York City where he continued
to practice medicine until his death in 1814.
He
trained a number of important physicians including
the artist-engraver Alexander Anderson.
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Sources: The life of Dr.Joseph Young is CAP biography number
6967. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. This individual is
not related to a contemporary Dr. Joesph Young of
Massachusetts - grandfather of Brigham Young!
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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