YOUNG, Andrew Jackson, dentist civic leader. Born, Franklin, La., March 24, 1895; son of Frank Smith Young and Hattie Epps Young.
Education: local schools, Franklin; Straight College (now Dillard University), B. A. degree, 1916; Howard University, Washington, D. C., D.D.S., 1921. Canadian semi-professional baseball team, shortstop position.
Married Daisy Fuller Young, 1931. Children, Andrew J., Jr., former U. N. ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, Ga.; Walter, dentist of Atlanta, Ga.
Organizational memberships: a founder and vice-president of Keystone Life Insurance Company and Keystone Investment Corporation; director of the Dryades Street YMCA; Greater New Orleans Urban League; NAACP; the Coordinating Council of Greater New Orleans; the Pelican State Dental Association; the National Dental Association; the New Orleans Dental Association; National Insurance Association; New Orleans Insurance Executives Council of Howard University.
Social Organizations: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Century Club of the YMCA; B-Sharp Music Club; original member of Osceola Five Club of the Ensemble, singing tenor in the quartet.
Awards: Order of the Red Triangle of the Dryades Street YMCA; 50 Year Award, by the National Dental Association; 40 Year Service Award, B-Sharp Music Club.
Religion: Congregational; member Central Congregational United Church of Christ.
Appointed by the Louisiana State Hospital Board (1930s & 1940s) to take charge of a mobile dental clinic to serve school children and welfare clients across the state; served as chairman of the Colored Division of the United Fund. Active in the desegregation movement in New Orleans, 1960s. A dentist for fifty-seven years.
Died, June 29, 1980; interred St. Louis Cemetery III, New Orleans. C.T.
Sources: “In Memoriam,” The Boule Journal, XLIV, No. 6 (Winter, 1980/81); Letter from Mrs. Andrew J. Young, Sr., November 13, 1985; “Service of Memory for Dr. Andrew J. Young, Sr., Wednesday, July 2, 1980.”
Education: local schools, Franklin; Straight College (now Dillard University), B. A. degree, 1916; Howard University, Washington, D. C., D.D.S., 1921. Canadian semi-professional baseball team, shortstop position.
Married Daisy Fuller Young, 1931. Children, Andrew J., Jr., former U. N. ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, Ga.; Walter, dentist of Atlanta, Ga.
Organizational memberships: a founder and vice-president of Keystone Life Insurance Company and Keystone Investment Corporation; director of the Dryades Street YMCA; Greater New Orleans Urban League; NAACP; the Coordinating Council of Greater New Orleans; the Pelican State Dental Association; the National Dental Association; the New Orleans Dental Association; National Insurance Association; New Orleans Insurance Executives Council of Howard University.
Social Organizations: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Century Club of the YMCA; B-Sharp Music Club; original member of Osceola Five Club of the Ensemble, singing tenor in the quartet.
Awards: Order of the Red Triangle of the Dryades Street YMCA; 50 Year Award, by the National Dental Association; 40 Year Service Award, B-Sharp Music Club.
Religion: Congregational; member Central Congregational United Church of Christ.
Appointed by the Louisiana State Hospital Board (1930s & 1940s) to take charge of a mobile dental clinic to serve school children and welfare clients across the state; served as chairman of the Colored Division of the United Fund. Active in the desegregation movement in New Orleans, 1960s. A dentist for fifty-seven years.
Died, June 29, 1980; interred St. Louis Cemetery III, New Orleans. C.T.
Sources: “In Memoriam,” The Boule Journal, XLIV, No. 6 (Winter, 1980/81); Letter from Mrs. Andrew J. Young, Sr., November 13, 1985; “Service of Memory for Dr. Andrew J. Young, Sr., Wednesday, July 2, 1980.”
YOUNG, Andrew Jackson, dentist civic leader. Born, Franklin, La., March 24, 1895; son of Frank Smith Young and Hattie Epps Young.
Education: local schools, Franklin; Straight College (now Dillard University), B. A. degree, 1916; Howard University, Washington, D. C., D.D.S., 1921. Canadian semi-professional baseball team, shortstop position.
Married Daisy Fuller Young, 1931. Children, Andrew J., Jr., former U. N. ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, Ga.; Walter, dentist of Atlanta, Ga.
Organizational memberships: a founder and vice-president of Keystone Life Insurance Company and Keystone Investment Corporation; director of the Dryades Street YMCA; Greater New Orleans Urban League; NAACP; the Coordinating Council of Greater New Orleans; the Pelican State Dental Association; the National Dental Association; the New Orleans Dental Association; National Insurance Association; New Orleans Insurance Executives Council of Howard University.
Social Organizations: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Century Club of the YMCA; B-Sharp Music Club; original member of Osceola Five Club of the Ensemble, singing tenor in the quartet.
Awards: Order of the Red Triangle of the Dryades Street YMCA; 50 Year Award, by the National Dental Association; 40 Year Service Award, B-Sharp Music Club.
Religion: Congregational; member Central Congregational United Church of Christ.
Appointed by the Louisiana State Hospital Board (1930s & 1940s) to take charge of a mobile dental clinic to serve school children and welfare clients across the state; served as chairman of the Colored Division of the United Fund. Active in the desegregation movement in New Orleans, 1960s. A dentist for fifty-seven years.
Died, June 29, 1980; interred St. Louis Cemetery III, New Orleans. C.T.
Sources: “In Memoriam,” The Boule Journal, XLIV, No. 6 (Winter, 1980/81); Letter from Mrs. Andrew J. Young, Sr., November 13, 1985; “Service of Memory for Dr. Andrew J. Young, Sr., Wednesday, July 2, 1980.”
Education: local schools, Franklin; Straight College (now Dillard University), B. A. degree, 1916; Howard University, Washington, D. C., D.D.S., 1921. Canadian semi-professional baseball team, shortstop position.
Married Daisy Fuller Young, 1931. Children, Andrew J., Jr., former U. N. ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, Ga.; Walter, dentist of Atlanta, Ga.
Organizational memberships: a founder and vice-president of Keystone Life Insurance Company and Keystone Investment Corporation; director of the Dryades Street YMCA; Greater New Orleans Urban League; NAACP; the Coordinating Council of Greater New Orleans; the Pelican State Dental Association; the National Dental Association; the New Orleans Dental Association; National Insurance Association; New Orleans Insurance Executives Council of Howard University.
Social Organizations: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Century Club of the YMCA; B-Sharp Music Club; original member of Osceola Five Club of the Ensemble, singing tenor in the quartet.
Awards: Order of the Red Triangle of the Dryades Street YMCA; 50 Year Award, by the National Dental Association; 40 Year Service Award, B-Sharp Music Club.
Religion: Congregational; member Central Congregational United Church of Christ.
Appointed by the Louisiana State Hospital Board (1930s & 1940s) to take charge of a mobile dental clinic to serve school children and welfare clients across the state; served as chairman of the Colored Division of the United Fund. Active in the desegregation movement in New Orleans, 1960s. A dentist for fifty-seven years.
Died, June 29, 1980; interred St. Louis Cemetery III, New Orleans. C.T.
Sources: “In Memoriam,” The Boule Journal, XLIV, No. 6 (Winter, 1980/81); Letter from Mrs. Andrew J. Young, Sr., November 13, 1985; “Service of Memory for Dr. Andrew J. Young, Sr., Wednesday, July 2, 1980.”
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