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28-582: Thomas Young may refer to: Military [ edit ] Thomas Young (American revolutionary) (1731–1777), member of the Sons of Liberty Thomas James Young (1827–1869), recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Indian mutiny Thomas Young (VC) (1895–1966), recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War I Tomas Young (1979–2014), Iraq War veteran, subject of

56-478: A Las Vegas corporation, in 1920 Thomas Young (tenor) , American operatic tenor Thomas Daniel Young (1919–1997), American professor of Southern literature Tommie Young (born 1949), U.S. singer Thomas Young (mass murderer) (1931–1959), Canadian mass murderer See also [ edit ] Thomas Youngs (disambiguation) Thomas Young Duncan (1836–1914), New Zealand politician Tom Young (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

84-603: A blasphemous response to the investigating official. In October 1764, Young moved to Albany to establish a medical practice. While there his son Rasman was baptized at the Lutheran Church. Young invested in a real estate venture with [John Henry Lydius, which subsequently failed. Young became involved in the resistance movement in Albany in the 1760s and helped found the Sons of Liberty there. Young arrived in Boston in 1765 and became

112-561: A deist statement of beliefs in a Boston newspaper. Thomas Young (mass murderer) Thomas Young (1931 – June 30, 1959) was a Canadian mass murderer and rapist who killed five people, including his father and a police officer, in Ear Falls , Ontario, early on Christmas Day in 1958. Young was convicted of murder for killing the police officer, Calvin Fulford, whom he shot with the officer's own service revolver, and sentenced to death. He

140-521: A distant grandmother, Elizabeth Blount mistress of King Henry VIII and mother of the king's son Henry FitzRoy . As Covenanters , the Clinton family had escaped from Scotland to Ireland in the seventeenth century ( New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1882, Vol. 12: p. 193). Although Charles Clinton and John Young had emigrated from Ireland with the intention of settling in Pennsylvania , near

168-503: A family physician to John Adams . He was active in the city’s Committee of Correspondence and became a committeeman for the Sons of Liberty . In 1773 Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and member of the Sons of Liberty authored a diatribe inveighing against British Tea and its harmful properties, both physical and political. It was quickly reprinted in Boston, where Young had already spoke out in

196-446: A great deal about philosophy and political theory. Young and Allen eventually decided to collaborate on a book intended to be an attack on organized religion, as Young had convinced Allen to become a Deist . They worked on the manuscript until 1764, when Young moved away from the area, taking the manuscript with him. They also shared an interest in ingrafting, an early form of inoculation, particularly in relation to smallpox. Ingrafting

224-505: A group of fellow-Covenanters, their chartered ship, the George and Anne , was taken off-course by an unscrupulous captain who held Clinton and Young captive until they paid a ransom. During their captivity, most of their fellow passengers perished of small-pox, starvation, or ship fever. Finding themselves in Boston after this ordeal, within a year Young and Clinton made their way to Little Britain. It

252-419: A nearby highway, and realized he was carrying a rifle and a revolver. He then said he came across the bodies, got scared, and ran to his grandparents' home. The trial lasted four days. On March 21, after deliberating for three hours, the jury found Thomas guilty of murder. He received a mandatory death sentence without a recommendation for mercy, and had an execution date set for June 30. Thomas did not react as

280-653: A similar vein in a letter to the Boston Evening Post of October 25. Young is considered to be one of the active organizers of the Boston Tea Party although he himself did not actually participate in the destruction of the tea chests. At the time he was addressing a crowd at the Old South Meeting House on the negative health effects of tea drinking. According to the Boston Tea Party Museum, this

308-483: A young couple, Walter "Jimmy" Gordon, 18, and Clara Gordon, 16, arrived with his brother John to play phonograph records. John opened the kitchen door to find Thomas standing here holding a rifle. He yelled at the others to run before Thomas opened fire. Albert and the Gordons were killed. Thomas also tried to kill John and another teen who was present, 16-year-old David Williams, but both managed to escape. The two went to

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336-749: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Young (American revolutionary) Thomas Young was born February 19, 1731, in Little Britain in New Windsor, New York . He was the son of first cousins John and Mary Crawford Young. John Young emigrated from Ireland to America in 1729 with a group led by Charles Clinton of County Longford . Charles Clinton, John Young, and Mary Crawford Young were all second cousins through their grandparents, siblings James Clinton (1667–1718) and Margaret Clinton Parks (1650–1710). The Clintons, Youngs, and Crawfords shared

364-513: Is unclear when Mary Crawford joined them in Little Britain or whether she was among the passengers of the George and Anne , although it seems likely that she emigrated with her cousins ( New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1882, Vol. 13, p. 882). A biographical sketch of Charles Clinton describes Little Britain thus: "after investigation, [Charles Clinton] settled at a place designated (for town purposes until 1763) as 'the precinct of

392-570: The Clintons, and here Thomas Young was born soon after the group's arrival in Little Britain. After demonstrating much intellectual brilliance as a child, Thomas Young was apprenticed to a local physician and then began his own medical practice in Amenia in Dutchess County in 1753. In 1755, he married Mary Winegar of Litchfield, Connecticut . They had two sons and four daughters. In August 1758 Young

420-527: The Indians, west of the Hudson, not yet settled by white men. It was without habitations, except Indian huts, and without roads, except Indian trails. So late as about 1845, more than one hundred years after this settlement, a living occupant could describe the appearance of one hundred wigwams on the side hills within sight of her father's house (Eager, p. 619)" (ibid.). Thomas Young's parents settled in farmland adjoining

448-522: The Young cabin with John and George. When the three were about 60 feet away from the cabin, Thomas opened fire on them. Williams tried to charge him but was fatally shot. Fulford was shot in the shoulder and tried to crawl back to his car. He managed to crawl about 20 yards before losing consciousness. Thomas then approached Fulford, took his revolver, jammed it into his mouth, and shot him. John managed to escape unharmed. John ran back to Fulford's house and told

476-1954: The documentary Body of War Politics [ edit ] Thomas Young (MP for Shropshire) , MP for Shropshire four times between 1380 and 1399 Thomas Young (MP for Winchelsea) , 1413–1425, MP for Winchelsea Thomas Young (died 1427) , MP for Bristol 1414 Thomas Yonge or Young, MP for Bristol (1435–1453, 1455) and Gloustershire, justice of the Common Pleas and the King's Bench Thomas Ainslie Young (1797–1860), official and political figure in Lower Canada Thomas Young (Australian politician) (1813–1904), South Australian MHA Thomas L. Young (1832–1888), governor of Ohio Thomas Ganley Young (born 1947), mayor of Syracuse, New York , 1986–1993 Religion [ edit ] Thomas Young (bishop) (1507–1568), Archbishop of York Thomas Young (theologian) (1587–1655), Scottish Presbyterian and author Thomas Young (animal welfare writer) (1772–1835), English clergyman, theologian, and writer Thomas Cullen Young (1880–1955), Scottish Presbyterian anthropologist and missionary Sports [ edit ] Thomas Jefferson Young (1902–1964), Negro leagues baseball player Thomas Young (rugby union) (born 1992), Welsh rugby union player Thomas Young (swimmer) (born 1991), British Paralympic swimmer Thomas Young (footballer) , Scottish footballer Tommy Young (born 1947), wrestler Tommy Young (footballer) (born 1947), Scottish footballer Thomas Young (sprinter) (born 2000), British Paralympic sprinter Other [ edit ] Thomas Young (developer) (c. 1650–?), English woodcarver and property developer Thomas Young (scientist) (1773–1829), British polymath, scientist and Egyptologist Thomas Young (entrepreneur) (1895–1971), founder of YESCO,

504-572: The highlands.' It is embraced in modern Orange County, but until after the Revolutionary War it was in Ulster County. His neighborhood was called Little Britain. James Kennedy, a New York merchant . . . James Alexander, a New York lawyer and member of the Governor's council, and his co-partner, William Smith, had before secured grants of land in the precinct of the highlands. It was border-land toward

532-468: The house of David's father, 47-year-old George Williams, and told him what had happened. John and George then went to the house of constable Calvin Russell Fulford, 28, for help. Fulford had been preparing for Christmas with his wife and their three children, ages 21 months to 9 years, and the family had just opened presents. After being told about Thomas, Fulford got his service revolver and approached

560-845: The name of Vermont for the new state north of Massachusetts, which was originally called New Connecticut. The reasoning in his letter to the Vermont Constitutional Convention in 1777 was that most of Vermont was in the Green Mountains , said to have been named by Samuel de Champlain . Young chose to combine "vert" (green) with "mont" (mountain) to honor the Green Mountain Boys . Young named several communities in New York state, including Amenia . Young died in Philadelphia on June 24, 1777, aged 46. In 1772 Young published

588-422: The officer's wife what had happened. She called the police, and the two officers who responded found Fulford's body. They radioed for help and additional officers arrived. They entered the cabin, where they found the bodies. Thomas started firing at the officers from his grandparents' nearby shack. The officers crawled near it and flushed him out by firing two tear gas bombs inside. Thomas subsequently surrendered and

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616-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Young&oldid=1258827378 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

644-457: Was considered a heresy by New England clergy and punishable by law, if not conducted with the consent of the town selectman. In 1764, Allen insisted that Young inject him with the virus on the Salisbury meeting house steps to prove whether or not ingrafting worked. They did this on a Sunday. Allen did not suffer from the virus, but when news of what they had done spread Allen was hauled into court for

672-402: Was executed in 1959. Thomas Young had two brothers, one of whom was named John. He was a former Ontario Hydro worker. On late December 24, 1958, Thomas got into an argument at a Christmas party. When his brother, John Young intervened, Thomas slapped him in the face and said he was going home. On December 25, a drunken Thomas was at the cabin of his father, 47-year-old Albert Young, when

700-509: Was found with a rifle and Fulford's revolver. He did not give a reason for the murders. Thomas was charged only with Fulford's murder. During the investigation, police did not state an official motive, but said there was strong evidence that Clara Gordon had been raped. She had fled the house, but was dragged inside by Thomas. Her body was found on a couch. Neighbours said Thomas had been upset when Clara, who he had known for years, married Gordon. They described him as moody and unpredictable. It

728-613: Was indicted in the Crum Elbow Precinct of Dutchess County, New York , for speaking and publishing "blasphemous words" concerning the Christian religion. Young met the young Ethan Allen while Allen was living in Salisbury, Connecticut , and Young was practicing medicine just across the provincial boundary in Amenia, New York. Only five years older than Allen, Young taught the younger Allen

756-516: Was later found that Clara had been pregnant. The couple had only been married for about two weeks. During his murder trial in March 1959, multiple witnesses said Thomas was the shooter. Thomas was the only witness to take the stand in his defence. He said he was drinking heavily that night and could not remember what had happened. Thomas claimed his last memory was leaving a party at a neighbour's home and heading home, and that he "came to" while walking on

784-544: Was probably a diversion intended to help the Tea Party organizers by keeping the crowd in the Meeting House while the tea was being destroyed. In 1774 Young, having received death threats (although for his political or religious views is unclear) left Boston for Newport. In 1775, he moved to Philadelphia and helped frame the state constitution , the most democratic constitution among the original states. Young also suggested

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