Called by Spencer W. Kimball Name S. Young Called by Spencer W. Kimball Role Author | Called by Heber J. Grant Education Weber State University End reason Honorable release | |
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End reason Granted general authority emeritus status Full Name Seymour Dilworth Young Born September 7, 1897
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States ( 1897-09-07 ) Died July 9, 1981, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Books More Precious Than Rubies: A Mormon Boy and His Priesthood | ||
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Seymour Dilworth Young (September 7, 1897 – July 9, 1981) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for 36 years, from 1945 until his death.
From 1945 to 1975, Young was the senior president of the church's First Council of the Seventy. In 1975 he was sustained a member of the newly created First Quorum of Seventy. He was the senior president of the Seventy from 1967 to 1976.
Young was a graduate of Weber College (now Weber State University). He served in the United States military during World War I. After the war he served as a missionary in the Central States Mission.
Young was known as an author and poet among members of the church. Young authored a biography of his great-great-uncle, LDS Church president Brigham Young. Many of Dilworth Young's poems have been published in the Ensign. He is son of Seymour B. Young, Jr. and Carlie Louine Clawson. Young was the grandson of Latter-day Saint leader Seymour B. Young, the nephew of Levi E. Young and the great-grandson of Joseph Young. He was also a descendant of Edward Partridge. One of Young's early American ancestors, Thomas Bascom, a founder of Windsor, Connecticut, was of French Basque and French Huguenot descent. Young married Gladys Pratt and had two children, one of whom died in World War II. Following his first wife's death, Young married Huldah Parker.
From 1947 to 1951, Young was president of the church's New England Mission.
Young is the subject of a biography by grandson Benson Y. Parkinson (Covenant, 1994).