The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Young, Alexander

YOUNG, Alexander, American Unitarian clergyman: b. Boston, 22 Sept. 1800; d. there, 15 March 1854. He was graduated at Harvard in 1820, studied theology at Cambridge, and in 1825 became pastor of the New South Congregational Church in Boston, which office he held till the close of his life. He was famous as a delineator of character and his discourses in memory of prominent men of his acquaintance, among which were ‘Nathaniel Bowditch’ (1838); ‘President Kirkland of Harvard’ (1840), and ‘Judge William Prescott, father of the historian’ (1844), were widely read. He published ‘Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth’ (1841); ‘Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay’ (1846); ‘Library of Old English Prose Writers’ (9 vols., 1831-34), etc.