Charles de Young
Charles de Young (January 8, 1846 – April 23, 1880), along with his younger brother M. H. de Young, founded the newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, which became the San Francisco Chronicle, and was its editor-in-chief. He was murdered by Isaac M. Kalloch, son of Isaac S. Kalloch, the Mayor of San Francisco, in revenge for a feud Charles had with the mayor.[1]
Charles de Young
January 8, 1846
April 23, 1880 (aged 34)
American
Newspaper publisher
1859–1880
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of San Francisco Chronicle
Miechel de Young
Amelia Morange
M. H. de Young (brother)
Early life and family[edit]
Charles de Young was born on January 8, 1846[2] in Natchitoches, Louisiana.[3] He was the son of Cornelia "Amelia"[4] (née Morange; 1809–1881) and Miechel de Young (died 1854), who married in 1837,[5] and the brother of Michael Henry "Harry" de Young and Virginia de Young (died 1875).[2] His family, who were Jewish, had immigrated from the Netherlands and France.[6][7] His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Morange, who served as the French Minister to Spain under Napoleon I,[8][9] moved to the United States about 1815[4] and helped found the B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in New York in 1825.[10]
Memorial[edit]
In 1884, de Young's brother, Harry, commissioned a bronze statue of Charles, erected at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco which cost in excess of $10,000 (equivalent to $339,000 in 2023). The statue was sculpted by F. Marion Wells,[2] a member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco.[14]