Samuel Hall Young (1847 – 1927)
	
Samuel Hall Young was born in Butler, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Wooster in Ohio and the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church and went to Wrangel, Alaska [in 1878] as a missionary where he organized the first Protestant Church in the state.((“S. Hall Young.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Hall_Young)) Miss. Kellogg was sent as the teacher at the Sitka school and she was there for about six months before going to Wrangel as Rev. Young’s wife.((Mrs. Eugene S. Willard, //Life in Alaska.// Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1884: 27-28.))
	
Young accompanied John Muir on two expeditions to Glacier Bay, Alaska in 1879 and 1880.((“S. Hall Young.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Hall_Young; Rev. A.L. Lindsley, //Sketches of an Excursion to Southern Alaska.// 1881: 23.)) 

In the fall of 1879, Young visited the Chilkat, the largest and most important tribe in the area, and recommended they receive a missionary. A missionary was commissioned for them in 1880 but was diverted to another field. Young then gave an outfit to a missionary teacher, Mrs. Sarah Dickinson. She was of the Tongas tribe and educated at the Fort Wrangel mission. The Chilkat were very happy with her and sent their children to her school. In August, Young visited the Chilkat community and persuaded the Northwest Trading Company to build a house and a school which Rev. Euguene S. Willard took on in 1881. In the spring of 1880, Young and Rev. G.W. Lyons, the missionary at Sitka, travelled the Prince of Wales Islands and established a mission at Cordova Bay and another in Hydah [Haida] territory. By 1881, Young had travelled to most villages, tribes and fish camps in south-eastern Alaska. He mapped the country and preached the gospel in preparation for establishing more missions.((Rev. A.L. Lindsley, //Sketches of an Excursion to Southern Alaska.// 1881: 69-72.))
	
S. Hall Young was the first Presbyterian Minister in Dawson. He came in the fall of 1897 and founded a church as well as a hospital and library. Fifty-nine people, none of them women, attended his first Easter Sunday. They had chunks of wood for seats, he used a five-foot block for the pulpit, and a miner's copper blower to take up collections. He asked the congregation to bring their own candles to the evening service. More ministers arrived in the summer of 1898. There were three Canadian Presbyterian ministers headed by Dr. Andrew Grant, one Wesleyan Methodist, one Lutheran, and one Salvation Army man. Grant wondered what the American Young was doing in Canada, but they got along well enough and alternated conducting services and other duties in the ministry. Young was not willing to become a Canadian citizen, so he left Dawson in August 1898.((From George C.F. Pringle, //Tillicums of the Trail//; Mary Lee Davis, //Sourdough Gold - The Log of Adventure// in Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.17.)) 

Young’s farewell social was a success and more than 100 people attended. Everyone felt that Dr. Young's departure was a great loss to the city. The program included an address on behalf of the non-church going people of Dawson who knew and loved Dr. Young.(("Farewell to Dr. Young." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 6 August 1898.)) In 1904, Young established the Presbyterian Church in Fairbanks and was later appointed superintendent of Presbyterian missions in Alaska.((“S. Hall Young.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Hall_Young))