S. Dilworth Young, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints's First Quorum of Seventy
Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1897
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 09-Jul-1981
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About S. Dilworth Young
- Seymour Dilworth Young (September 7, 1897 – July 9, 1981) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1945 until his death. From 1945 to 1975, Young was a member of the church's First Council of the Seventy.
- In 1975, he was sustained a member of the newly created First Quorum of Seventy.
- He was the senior president of the Seventy from 1967 to 1976. Young was a graduate of Weber College (now Weber State University).
- He served in the United States military during World War I.
- After the war he served as a missionary in the Central States Mission. Young was known as an author and poet among members of the church.
- Young authored a biography of his great-great-uncle, LDS Church president Brigham Young.
- Many of Dilworth Young's poems have been published in the Ensign.
- He was born to Seymour B.
- Young, Jr.
- and Carlie Louine Clawson.
- Young was the grandson of Latter-day Saint leader Seymour B.
- Young, the nephew of Levi E.
- Young and the great-grandson of Joseph Young.
- He was also a descendant of Edward Partridge.
- One of Young's early American ancestors, Thomas Bascom, a founder of Windsor, Connecticut, was of French Basque and French Huguenot descent.
- Young married Gladys Pratt and had two children, one of whom died in World War II.
- Following his first wife's death, Young married Huldah Parker. From 1947 to 1951, Young was president of the church's New England Mission. Young is the subject of a biography by his grandson, Benson Y.
- Parkinson (Covenant, 1994).
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