M. H. de Young
American journalist and businessman (1849–1925)
Michael Henry de Young (September 30, 1849 – February 15, 1925) was an American journalist and businessman. With his brother he co-founded the paper that would become the San Francisco Chronicle.
Early life
De Young was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The family was Jewish. Michael in later years claimed that his father was a Baltimore banker of French birth, but he may have been a peripatetic jeweler and dry-goods merchant named De Jong or De Jongh. Michael was the son of Cornelia "Amelia" (née Morange; 1809–1881) and Miechel de Young (died 1854), who married in 1837. His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Morange, who served as the French Minister to Spain under Napoleon I, moved to the United States about 1815 and helped found the B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in New York in 1825.
The de Young family moved from St. Louis to San Francisco in 1854.
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