S. Dilworth Young
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Seymour Dilworth Young (7 September 1897 – July 9, 1981) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for 36 years.
From 1945 to 1975, Young was the senior president of the First Council of the Seventy of the LDS Church. In 1975 he was sustained as member of newly-created First Quorum of Seventy.
Young is known as an author and poet among members of the church. Young is the author of a biography of his great-grandfather, LDS Church President Brigham Young. Many of Young's poems have been published in the Ensign. He is son of Seymour B. Young, Jr. and Carlie Louine Clawson. He married Gladys Pratt and had 2 children, one of whom died in World War II. Following his first wife's death he married Huldah Parker.
Between 1947 and 1951, Young was the president of the New England Mission of the church.
Young is the grandson of Latter-day Saint leader Seymour B. Young, the nephew Levi E. Young and the great-grandson of Joseph Young. He is also a descendant of Edward Partridge.
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