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  Charles Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Young (March 12, 1864 - January 8, 1922) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and was the first African American ever to obtain that rank.
Young was born in Mayslick, Kentucky, United States, the son of former slaves.
Young was transferred on November 2, 1903, and reassigned as troop commander at the Presidio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Young   (593 words)

  
 Young's Brewery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Young's is a British regional brewery founded in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they purchased the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth.
It was purchased by Charles Allen Young and Anthony Fothergale Bainbridge in 1831.
Young's claim the Ram Brewery is the oldest British brewery in continuous operation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Young's_Brewery   (687 words)

  
 Charles E. Young (UCLA Gateway)
Charles E. Young took office as chancellor of UCLA on Sept. 1, 1968, and was formally inaugurated on May 23, 1969 -- the 50th anniversary of the university's founding.
Young returned to UCLA in 1960 to serve in a series of executive posts in the administration of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy: assistant to the chancellor (1960-62), assistant chancellor (1962-63), and vice chancellor for administration (1963-68).
Young has received several tributes from the UCLA Alumni Association, including its highest honor, the Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award, which was presented in May 1994 in recognition of his 25th anniversary as chancellor.
www.ucla.edu /chancellor/pastleaders/young.html   (1109 words)

  
 Charles A. Young
Charles Augustus Young was born at Hanover, New Hampshire, on 15 December 1834.
Young was a highly appreciated and respected teacher at both Dartmouth and Princteon, and an extremely active public speaker on matters of science and astronomy.
Young was awarded numerous honorary degrees and prizes in the course of his career, including the Janssen Medal of the French Academy of Sciences (1891) for his work in solar spectroscopy.
www.hao.ucar.edu /Public/education/bios/young.html   (500 words)

  
 Charles Young - Biographies - Presidio of San Francisco
Young chose not to subject his family to the rigid and discriminatory social structure of the United States Army during that era.
Young, Davis, and Green often found themselves replacing each other as military science professors at Negro colleges such as Wilberforce and Tuskegee, and as military attachés assigned to American legations of the predominately Black nations of Haiti and Liberia.
Young was buried with full military honors by the British Colonial Administration in Lagos, Nigeria.
www.nps.gov /prsf/history/bios/charles_young.htm   (2102 words)

  
 University of Florida News - Sue K. Young, wife of UF President Charles E. Young, passes away
Charles Young succeeded Murphy as chancellor in 1968.
Young served as an ex officio member of the UCLA Faculty Women’s Club, president of The Affiliates UCLA and a member of the boards of Women and Philanthropy at UCLA and the Iris Cantor Center for Breast Imaging.
Sue Young is survived by her husband, Charles; a son, Charles Young, Jr.; a daughter, Elizabeth Young-Apstein; and seven grandchildren.
news.ufl.edu /2001/09/28/sue-young-obit   (636 words)

  
 Charlie Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles 'Charlie' Young, former Special Aide to the White House Chief of Staff and former Personal Aide to the President, is a fictional character played by Dulé Hill on the television serial drama The West Wing.
Young's mother was a police officer in Washington D.C. who was killed in the line of duty (revealed in the episode "A Proportional Response").
The character's name may be a tribute to Charles Young, the first ever fl Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_Young   (681 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ray Charles (1930-2004)
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany on September 23, 1930, the same year that Hoagy Carmichael composed "Georgia on My Mind." A few months after his birth his mother, Aretha Williams, moved with RC (as everybody called the young Charles) to Greenville, a small town in north Florida.
After he was declared legally blind at the age of seven, she enrolled him in the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, where he remained for nine years, until her death in 1945.
Charles insisted that he was only doing what came naturally—playing the music that came straight from his soul.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-911   (1288 words)

  
 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shewsbury England.
Charles was the second son and the fifth of six children.
Charles had plans to be a doctor also, but his plans changed as his life took its course.
oz.plymouth.edu /~biology/history/darwin.html   (472 words)

  
 COL Charles Young Pg. 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On a day in June, 1918 retired Lt. Colonel Charles Young, made his way on horseback, 500 miles from Wilberforce, Ohio to this nation's capital, to show he was as always, fit for duty.
Young was reinstated and promoted to full Colonel, but he was assigned to duty at Camp Grant, Illinois.
Colonel Charles Young's funeral service was one of the few ever held at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery.
www.ques-lgg.org /Famous_young-3.htm   (332 words)

  
 COL Charles Young Pg. 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Young was sent to the Philippines to join his 9th regiment and command a squadron of two troops in 1908.
On another occasion, Young was credited with averting disaster when he and his men came to the relief of the 13th U.S. Cavalry squadron who were fighting a heavy rear guard action.
Young was devoted to his wife Ada and their two children; son, Charles Jr.
www.ques-lgg.org /Famous_young-2.htm   (288 words)

  
 Young, Charles Augustus
Young, Charles Augustus (1834-1908) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, of a family long connected with Dartmouth College.
Young was an authority on the sun and a pioneer in spectrum analysis.
Young was admired by undergraduates, who called him ``Twinkle'' (as much for the bright, kindly flash of his eye as for his subject), and by the faculty, who thought him ``in gifts and character.
etcweb1.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/young_charles.html   (1173 words)

  
 Charles Young
Charles Young was christened on the 13th of July 1799 in Witley, Hambledon, Surrey, England.
Emily Young (Ironer, Laundress) was christened on the 30th of November 1828 in Witley, Surrey and married on the 19th of September 1853 in Christ Church, Marylebone to Edwin James Amos (Painter) of Somersetshire.
Louisa Young (Schoolmistress, Nurse) was christened on the 27th of September 1807 in Witley, Surrey and married on the 4th of July 1830 in Teddington, Middlesex to Abraham Hardy (Drayman) of Witley.
home.comcast.net /~derek2000/tree/ggg_gp/chyo1799.htm   (1382 words)

  
 National Park Service: Biography (Capt. Charles Young)
Charles Young was born March 12, 1864, in Mayslick, Kentucky, the son of former slaves.
Young was successful, making the second highest score, and in 1883 reported to the military academy.
In both military and civilian activities, Young demonstrated qualities of character during a time when prejudice was a way of life.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/sontag/young.htm   (506 words)

  
 Oral History Transcripts - Charles L. Young Sr.
Mississippi Representative Charles Lemuel Young was born on August 27, 1931, in Meridian, Mississippi, Lauderdale County.
YOUNG: What I mean by a rotating sign was that fls had to go to the back of the bus, but if the back of the bus was filling up faster than the white [part] of the bus, then the sign would be moved up.
Charles came in with a more aggressive attitude than Medgar had there, so it kind of fitted the style of younger people with that aggressiveness and Charles was a little bit more abrasive than Medgar.
www.usm.edu /crdp/html/transcripts/young_charles-i.shtml   (7672 words)

  
 Charles M. Young Grows Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During this recent e-mail interview with Young, he talks about what punk music is today or even if it exists anymore, editors, the current state of rock criticism, and why he's now happy writing about a different kind of celebrity--real people facing real-life problems.
Charles: Yes and no. I think those features had a certain vitality to them because I always felt I had something to learn from the musicians I was talking to, that they understood something about life that I didn't.
Charles: In grade school, I had my heart set on becoming an admiral in the Navy, probably because there was a guy in my father's church who had been the captain of a destroyer during World War II and I dug his uniform.
www.rockcritics.com /interview/charlesmyoung.html   (2284 words)

  
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Charles Young was born in Mayslick, Kentucky on March 12, 1864.
In 1903 Charles was assigned as the troop commander for the Presidio.
Charles Young demonstrated strength of character and perseverance in the face of many obstacles and the rampant racism and prejudice of his times.
multirace.org /firstday/stamp83.htm   (484 words)

  
 Charles H. Young, Author, Into The Valley
Young was recalled to active duty in May 1942, to help in the efforts to create a new air force outfit, USAAF Troop Carrier.
Young brought extensive night and instrument flying experience with him when he was recalled to active duty, much of which was gained in flying for American Airlines beginning in 1939.
During his 35 years with American, Young participated in several key aviation studies, one of which was a coordinated effort between the USAF, the FAA, and the airlines to develop advanced capabilities for blind landing procedures for NASA's space shuttle project and for future airline use.
www.usaaftroopcarrier.com /Author.htm   (667 words)

  
 Charles Young: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_young.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Charles Denton Young, Colonel, United States Army
Young died in Nigeria in 1922, leaving his wife and two kids to scrape by in southern Ohio by selling much of their property.
Young today is not nearly as well known as other pioneering fl military figures, including Henry O. Flipper, the first fl to graduate from West Point, who was drummed out of the service in 1882 on questionable charges that President Bill Clinton pardoned in 1999, and Benjamin O. Davis, America's first fl general.
Young died with his boots on, but it was not the just finish to his exemplary life that he deserved.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /cdyoung.htm   (3695 words)

  
 UCLA Today: Sue Young defined partnership in leadership
She also was a published author, poet and lyricist and an advocate for higher education, the arts, and women's healthcare in the local, national and international arena.
"Sue Young made enormous personal and professional contributions to UCLA, and we are all beneficiaries of her commitment to excellence, her passion for maintaining the highest standards and her unfailing ability to showcase the university in the best possible ways," said Chancellor Albert Carnesale.
Born in Colton, Calif., she and Charles Young met as students at San Bernardino Valley College and married in 1950.
www.today.ucla.edu /2001/011009sueyoung.html   (564 words)

  
 Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt is not an exception, and his novels reveal the harsh world of prejudice and social indifference in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Charles W. Chesnutt was born June 20, 1858, in Cleveland Ohio, the eldest child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Anne Maria Sampson, free fls from North Carolina.
Charles Chesnutt's family heritage gave him the features that barely distinguished him from whites, but determined his social status as lower than that of the white Americans.
faculty.berea.edu /browners/chesnutt/biography/biography.html   (1483 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point: Books: Vincent K. Brooks,Brian G. Shellum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third African American West Point graduate and the only one from the nineteenth century who had a long military career (1889-1922).
Young, who died a colonel on active duty, was so thoroughly or deliberately forgotten by the outbreak of World War II that Congress and the War Department acted as if fl officers had never been heard of.
Charles Young lived a century before there were television ads selling the Army as the place where you can "Be all you can be." He was ahead of his time, and his story is an inspiration to anyone who seeks to follow in his footsteps, to overcome the odds against them.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803293151?v=glance   (1354 words)

  
 RP's History Online - Charles IV
Charles IV was just as noble - but much more practical than his caravanting father had been, and he took a keen interest in all aspects of rule over the Czech lands.
Charles was a very good king, and he paid attention to detail.
It was Charles IV, too, who brought the cultivation of the grape and the wine industry to the beer-drinking Czech lands.
archiv.radio.cz /history/history04.html   (838 words)

  
 Captain Charles Young in Sequoia National Park
Born in Kentucky during the Civil War, Charles Young had early set himself a course that took him to places where a fl man was not often welcome.
Young and his troopers arrived in Sequoia after a 16-day ride to find that their major assignment would be the extension of the wagon road.
During the summer of 1903, Young and his troops built as much road as the combined results of the three previous summers.
www.nps.gov /seki/young.htm   (678 words)

  
 Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Charles Young is Chairman of the Universities & Colleges committee.
Representative Young is a Mason and is affiliated with the Elks Club, Kappa Alpha Psi, Chamber of Commerce, NAACP and the VFW.
Representative Young was born August 27, 1931 in Meridian and is a widower.
www.ls.state.ms.us /house/young.htm   (84 words)

  
 Colonel Charles Young
Young was born March 12, 1864 to exslaves in the little hamlet of MaysLick, Kentucky.
Charles Young distinguished himself throughout his military career with the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalries, and the 25th Infantry.
Young risked his life to fulfill his assignments, only to have his maps and reports stolen and sold to the Haitian government.
www.buffalosoldier.net /CharlesYoung.htm   (1594 words)

  
 Dr. Charles Young's Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Young Ones are a group of chemists from all over the world exploring the vitally important chemistry of the early transition metal elements.
The Young Ones get their biggest kicks from the synthesis and characterisation of new and unusual chemical compounds of relevance to the areas of artificial and biological catalysis, in particular that of Mo and W. Molybdenum and tungsten enzymes are essential for all forms of life.
The Young Ones aim to produce synthetic models of these enzymes, small molecules that share structural and functional attributes with the crucially important molybdopterin–Mo enzymes and their tungsten analogues.
www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au /staff/cgyoung/research   (487 words)

  
 Charles can play but won't start
Charles, the Longhorns' leading rusher with 571 yards and six touchdowns, played sparingly last week as Young received the bulk of the carries at tailback.
Young, a junior from Houston, has gained 231 yards this season on 54 carries, an average of 4.3 yards per carry, with three touchdowns.
Selvin Young is still working his way back from an early-season ankle injury and a broken fibula that forced him to miss all but two games in the 2004 season.
www.statesman.com /horns/content/sports/stories/longhorns/10/21jamaal.html   (416 words)

  
 Charles Young wins 10th ASCAP award
Charles Rochester Young, professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has won his 10th consecutive award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Young’s "Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble" was recently performed in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Young, who has received the UW System Regents Teaching Excellence Award and was named a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, also was recognized as the 1999-2000 Wisconsin Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/evASCAPCharlesYoung.htm   (214 words)

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