A Remembrance of William Wylie Young
1898-2002

Nadine Stoner

[Reprinted from GroundSwell, 2002]

At the age of 103 and 7 months, Wylie Young died peacefully March 16 at the Anderson Nursing Home, Cincinnati, where he had lived for two years. He was buried next to his late wife, "Billie", of 64 years in the Chautauqua cemetery in New York State. He is survived by three daughters, Zerelda Young, Edna McPherson, and Wylene Young, and a sister, Margaret Mills, a brother Paul M., grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Wylie Young graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) and then attended Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1929, he became the minister of Westminister, then the second largest Presbyterian Church in Toledo, Ohio. For twenty years, he was the senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Batavia, NY, and in 1957 was elected to serve as the Moderator of the Synod of New York. In 1976, Wylie's book, "Antidote for Madne$$," was published by Philadelphia Publishing Company. It is available from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, www.schalkenbach.org/books.

Following his pastoral retirement at age 61, Wylie spent five years with the Economic Education League of Albany, NY, teaming with Dr. Harry Gunnison Brown in a teaching and lecturing campaign to alert many of the cities of the third class in Pennsylvania to the advantages of a new law in that state. Wylie devoted about 20 years to working for the Henry George Foundation, promoting the Georgist philosophy to city councils of middle-sized cities in Pennsylvania.