Margaret Young (other)
Margaret Young may refer to: * Margaret Young (1891–1969), American performer * Margaret Young (1855–1940), Canadian missionary in Nagoya, Japan * Margaret Blair Young (born 1955), American author, filmmaker and educator * Margaret Buckner Young (1921–2009), American educator and author * Tui Manu'a Matelita (1872–1895), Queen of Manu'a in the late 19th century * Margaret Paulin Young Margaret Paulin Young (4 December 1864 – 15 January 1953) was a Scottish educator. She attended and was later headmistress of the Park School for Girls in Glasgow, where she introduced classes on art and science. Early life Young was born in ...

Margaret Young
Margaret Youngblood (February 23, 1891 – May 3, 1969) better known by her stage name Margaret Young, was an American singer and comedian who was popular in the 1920s. Young is best known for her songs "Hard Hearted Hannah", "Lovin' Sam The Sheik Of Alabam'", " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans", and "Oh By Jingo!". Biography She was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 1891. She had four sisters; three older and one younger. Young began her professional career in Detroit, Michigan. She sang at theaters, dinner clubs, and on Vaudeville. Young first recorded commercially for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1920. She recorded a series of records for Brunswick from 1922 through 1925 which sold well. She continued as a popular entertainer until the end of the decade. Young came out of retirement to record for Capitol Records in 1949. Her sister was married to composer Richard A. Whiting, some of whose songs she introduced, and her niece Margaret Whiting also woul ...
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Margaret Young (missionary)
Margaret Majora Young (1855 – 1940, in ) was a Canadian missionary to Nagoya, Japan. She dedicated her life to the education of women there, and laid the foundation of St. Mary's College, Nagoya. Birth and education Margaret Young was born in Vienna, Ontario, Canada in 1855. She was the third daughter of the six siblings. After studying at the Hamilton Normal School, she started to work in 1890 at a public kindergarten in Elma, Ontario, where she was exposed to Friedrich Fröbel's early childhood education method and practice. Missionary in Japan In 1895, she was sent to Japan as a missionary of the Anglican Church of Canada, and arrived in Nagoya, Japan's third largest city, where J. Robinson and his wife had begun their missionary work in 1888. In 1898 she started education of child care workers at her own home, with one student. In 1999, she established Ryujo Kindergarten in Higashi-ku, Nagoya. (Ryujo, meaning the willow castle, is one of the nicknames of Nagoya, well known ...
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Margaret Blair Young
Margaret Blair Young (born 1955) is an American author, filmmaker, and writing instructor who taught for thirty years at Brigham Young University. Biography Young's published work includes the novels ''House Without Walls'' (1991), ''Salvador'' (1992), and ''Heresies of Nature'' (2002) and the short story collections ''Elegies and Love Songs'' (1992) (which won an Association of Mormon Letters award) and ''Love Chains'' (1997). She also co-authored a trilogy of historical novels about Black Mormon pioneers titled ''Standing on the Promises'' with Darius Gray. The trilogy, published between 2000 and 2003, was republished in revised and expanded form in 2012 and 2013. Young scripted and helped direct a 2005 television documentary based on the life of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, "Jane Manning James: Your Sister in the Gospel." The 20-minute documentary has been shown at This Is The Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, the 2005 annual conference of the Foundation for Ap ...
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Margaret Buckner Young
Margaret Buckner Young (March 29, 1921 – December 5, 2009) was an American educator and author. Biography The daughter of Eva Carter and Frank Buckner, she was born Margaret Buckner in Campbellsville, Kentucky and was educated in Aurora, Illinois and at Kentucky State Industrial College, receiving a bachelor's degree in English and French. In 1944, she married Whitney M. Young, Jr. Young continued her education, receiving a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota. In 1953, the couple moved to Atlanta where she taught educational psychology at Spelman College. In 1961, they moved to New Rochelle, New York, where she mainly concentrated on raising their two daughters; she also began her writing career. After her husband's death in 1971, Young became involved in promoting racial equality and in improving relations between the United States and other countries including Nigeria, Yugoslavia and China. She also devoted herself to preserving her hu ...
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Tui Manu'a Matelita
Tui Manu'a Matelita, born Margaret Young, and also known as Makelita, Matelika or Lika (31 December 1872 – 29 October 1895) was the Tui Manu'a (paramount chief or queen) from 1891 to 1895. She ruled over Manu'a, a group of islands in the eastern part of the Samoan Islands (present day American Samoa). During her tenure, she served largely a ceremonial role at her residence on Ta'ū where she received British writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Matelita never married because she would not marry any of the eligible native chieftains and no other men were regarded as having the proper rank to marry her. She died of illness in 1895 although later reports claimed she died by a more violent means. She was buried in the Tui Manu'a Graves Monument. Life She was born on 31 December 1872. Her parents were Arthur Paʻu Young and of Amipelia. Her father's heritage was half-Samoan and half-white; her grandfather was either a British or American surnamed Young and her grandmother was a Samoan ...
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