Frederic George Young

Frederic George Young (sometimes spelled Frederick) (1858–1929) was an educator in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was born in Burnett, Wisconsin on June 3, 1858,^[1] and after graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1886, he taught in Wisconsin and South Dakota. He moved to Portland in 1890, and served as principal at its high school and as president of Albany College before being appointed professor of economics and history at the University of Oregon in 1895.^[2] He was a founding officer of the Oregon Historical Society in 1898, and as editor of its Oregon Historical Quarterly from its founding in 1900 through the December 1928 issue. He served on the Oregon Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.^[3][4] He was dean of Oregon's School of Sociology from 1919 until his death.

Frederic G. Young, circa 1900

References

1. Young, Frederick George in Who's Who in America, 1901-1902 edition (via archive.org)
2. wikisource:en:The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Young, Frederick George
3. Frykman, George A. (April 1957). "Frederic G. Young, Regionalist and Historian". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 48 (2). University of Washington: 33–38. JSTOR 40487232.
4. "ojsadmin,+28.pdf".

Further reading

• Several articles in the Quarterly upon his death: OHQ vol. 30 no. 1