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WILLIAM J. YOUNG, M. D.
A most skillful surgeon, William J.
Young gained prominence in his profession and was recognized throughout the
state among physicians and surgeons as among the foremost in the medical profession. He was not only a Native Son of the Golden
West, but also a native of San Joaquin County, his birth having occurred on the
Sonora Road, four miles west of Farmington, August 30, 1869, the son of an old
time resident and pioneer of San Joaquin County, David Young, a native of
Canada and a farmer of San Joaquin Valley for many years.
William J. Young was educated in the
public schools of Stockton, St. May’s College of Stockton, and pursued his
medical course in the Cooper Medical College of San Francisco, from which
institution he graduated with the M. D. degree.
During 1902 he took a trip abroad for the purpose of taking a
post-graduate course in Vienna and England.
Dr. Young was married about sixteen
years ago to Miss Ysabel Laogier,
a native of Stockton, daughter of the late Mrs. Basilio
Laogier, and they were the parents of two daughters,
Dorothy and Margaret. Two brothers, J.
M. and David E. Young, both live in Stockton, while two sisters, Mrs. Tim Minihen and Mrs. Margaret W. Williams, have passed
away. Dr. Young was a member of the
Stockton Parlor, N. S. G. W., Young Men’s Institute of Stockton, and of
Stockton Lodge No. 218 B. P. O. E.
Dr. Young enjoyed one of the largest
practices in this section of the state, was greatly beloved for his frank
manner and sincerity and respected for his professional skill. During the last three years of his life, Dr.
Young was associated with Dr. J. W. Barnes.
For several months before his demise, Dr. Young had been seriously ill
and on September 26, 1921, he passed away.
As a physician and surgeon, Dr. Young ranked among the leaders in his
profession, but overshadowing even this was the real man whose big heart went
out to the poor and the afflicted and whose deeds of generosity and kindness
have brightened many homes. Liberal to a
marked degree, Dr. Young’s charities were all done quietly and in an
unostentatious manner, not for worldly praise but for the good and the relief
he could give to his fellow men. But now
that voice that soothed is stilled and the eyes that shone with kindness and
inspiration are closed and the skilled hands folded forever. The devotion to friends, faithful remembrances
of favors received and love of family, the recognition of civic duties, all
these contributed to form a character that may well be pointed at as that of an
ideal physician. It can be said of Dr.
Young that he was a good man, able physician and wise counselor, a true friend
and kind to the poor. His soul has gone
to claim a just reward, but in the hearts of Stockton people his memory will
ever remain as a truly good man.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
500. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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