Son of M.H. De Young and his wife Kate. Charles was born a year after his Uncle Charles De Young was shot and killed and in all likelihood was named for him. As teen-agers, his father and uncle had created what became the highly successful San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and enormous wealth came to the De Young family as a result of their journalistic enterprise. Charles went to all the best schools (Exeter, Harvard) and studied French in Paris, France. Just two months before he died he had been named publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle; the mantle had been passed to the next generation. Unfortunately, he took a drink of unfiltered tap water in Monterey while attending the Del Monte Golf Tournament. He was shortly thereafter diagnosed with typhus, holding on for awhile, but in the end succumbing to the disease as his family surrounded him at their home in San Mateo, Calfornia.
LAST HONORS FOR CHARLES DE YOUNG
Hundreds to Attend Funeral Tomorrow; Bishop Hanna to be in Charge funeral services for Charles de Young, publisher of the Chronicle, who died Wednesday night at the De Young home at San Mateo, will be held tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock at St. Mary's Cathedral. From the cathedral the body will be taken to Holy Cross Cemetery, where the rites will be private. Several hundred employees of the Chronicle will be given an opportunity to view the body of the late publisher at the family home on California street, at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The funeral procession will then be formed, and, attended by delegations of the police and fire departments, will proceed to St. Mary's. There requiem mass will be celebrated by Bishop Edward J. Hanna.
Messages of condolence were received by the De Young family from various parts of the country yesterday. One of these was from Mrs. Herman Oelrilchs of New York, offering the use of her vault in Holy Cross cemetery until the De Young mausoleum can be completed. Her offer was accepted and the body will be temporarily laid to rest there.
(S.F. Call article September 1913)
LAST HONORS FOR CHARLES DE YOUNG
Hundreds to Attend Funeral Tomorrow; Bishop Hanna to be in Charge funeral services for Charles de Young, publisher of the Chronicle, who died Wednesday night at the De Young home at San Mateo, will be held tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock at St. Mary's Cathedral. From the cathedral the body will be taken to Holy Cross Cemetery, where the rites will be private. Several hundred employees of the Chronicle will be given an opportunity to view the body of the late publisher at the family home on California street, at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The funeral procession will then be formed, and, attended by delegations of the police and fire departments, will proceed to St. Mary's. There requiem mass will be celebrated by Bishop Edward J. Hanna.
Messages of condolence were received by the De Young family from various parts of the country yesterday. One of these was from Mrs. Herman Oelrilchs of New York, offering the use of her vault in Holy Cross cemetery until the De Young mausoleum can be completed. Her offer was accepted and the body will be temporarily laid to rest there.
(S.F. Call article September 1913)
Son of M.H. De Young and his wife Kate. Charles was born a year after his Uncle Charles De Young was shot and killed and in all likelihood was named for him. As teen-agers, his father and uncle had created what became the highly successful San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and enormous wealth came to the De Young family as a result of their journalistic enterprise. Charles went to all the best schools (Exeter, Harvard) and studied French in Paris, France. Just two months before he died he had been named publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle; the mantle had been passed to the next generation. Unfortunately, he took a drink of unfiltered tap water in Monterey while attending the Del Monte Golf Tournament. He was shortly thereafter diagnosed with typhus, holding on for awhile, but in the end succumbing to the disease as his family surrounded him at their home in San Mateo, Calfornia.
LAST HONORS FOR CHARLES DE YOUNG
Hundreds to Attend Funeral Tomorrow; Bishop Hanna to be in Charge funeral services for Charles de Young, publisher of the Chronicle, who died Wednesday night at the De Young home at San Mateo, will be held tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock at St. Mary's Cathedral. From the cathedral the body will be taken to Holy Cross Cemetery, where the rites will be private. Several hundred employees of the Chronicle will be given an opportunity to view the body of the late publisher at the family home on California street, at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The funeral procession will then be formed, and, attended by delegations of the police and fire departments, will proceed to St. Mary's. There requiem mass will be celebrated by Bishop Edward J. Hanna.
Messages of condolence were received by the De Young family from various parts of the country yesterday. One of these was from Mrs. Herman Oelrilchs of New York, offering the use of her vault in Holy Cross cemetery until the De Young mausoleum can be completed. Her offer was accepted and the body will be temporarily laid to rest there.
(S.F. Call article September 1913)
LAST HONORS FOR CHARLES DE YOUNG
Hundreds to Attend Funeral Tomorrow; Bishop Hanna to be in Charge funeral services for Charles de Young, publisher of the Chronicle, who died Wednesday night at the De Young home at San Mateo, will be held tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock at St. Mary's Cathedral. From the cathedral the body will be taken to Holy Cross Cemetery, where the rites will be private. Several hundred employees of the Chronicle will be given an opportunity to view the body of the late publisher at the family home on California street, at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The funeral procession will then be formed, and, attended by delegations of the police and fire departments, will proceed to St. Mary's. There requiem mass will be celebrated by Bishop Edward J. Hanna.
Messages of condolence were received by the De Young family from various parts of the country yesterday. One of these was from Mrs. Herman Oelrilchs of New York, offering the use of her vault in Holy Cross cemetery until the De Young mausoleum can be completed. Her offer was accepted and the body will be temporarily laid to rest there.
(S.F. Call article September 1913)
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