Robert A. Young (minister)

Robert A. Young
Robert A. Young
Born	Robert Anderson Young; January 23, 1824; Campbell's Station, Knox County, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	February 1902; Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma mater	Washington College; Jackson College; Florence Wesleyan University
Occupation	Clergyman
Political party	Whig Party; Democratic Party
Spouses	Mary A. Kemmer; Anna Green Hunter;
Relatives	Alexander Little Page Green (father-in-law)

Robert A. Young (1824–1902) was an American minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A descendant of slaveholding planters, he served as a minister in many churches in Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri in the Antebellum South. He served as the President of Florence Wesleyan University (later known as the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama from 1861 to 1864. He supported the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and he did not believe in the "social equality of the Negro" after the war.^[1] He was a founding trustee of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Robert A. Young
Born	Robert Anderson Young January 23, 1824 Campbell's Station, Knox County, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	February 1902 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma mater	Washington College Jackson College Florence Wesleyan University
Occupation	Clergyman
Political party	Whig Party Democratic Party
Spouses	Mary A. Kemmer Anna Green Hunter
Relatives	Alexander Little Page Green (father-in-law)