found: African American National Biography, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Young, James Hunter; newspaper editor/publisher, federal official, political activist, state legislator; born 26 October, 1858 in Henderson, North Carolina, United States; studied at private Shaw University, in Raleigh, North Carolina (1874-1877); messenger, later chief clerk and cashier, at the office of U.S. collector of internal revenue, Raleigh district (1877-1885); chief clerk and deputy register at the Wake County office of the register of deeds (1886); special collector at U.S. Customs, in Wilmington (1889); collector of customs for the city (1890-1893); purchased the Raleigh Gazette (1893-1900); was a delegate for Republican National Convention (1892); was elected, as a Republican to the North Carolina House of Representatives from Wake County (1894), and reelected (1896); was a colonel of a state regiment of African American volunteers in Spanish-American War; became a deputy collector of revenue for the Raleigh district (1899-1913); devout Baptist, served as church clerk and Sunday school superintendent at Raleigh's black First Baptist Church and president of his state Sunday school convention; was active Mason, member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Household of Ruth; advised federal selective service officials, World War I; died 11 April, 1921 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)
