Around the World With General Grant

John Russell Young (1840-99) was born in Pennsylvania and started his newspaper career with the Philadelphia Press, accompanying the Army of the Potomac as a war correspondent for that paper during the Civil War. From 1866 to 1869, he served as managing editor of the New York Tribune, and from 1871 to 1877, he was the European correspondent for the New York Herald. Young was the American minister to China from 1882 to 1885. In 1897 President William McKinley named him librarian of Congress Michael Fellman, a professor of history at Simon Fraser University, has written five booksYoung, John Russell is the author of 'Around the World With General Grant' with ISBN 9780801869501 and ISBN 0801869501.