Queer Places:
226 W 97th St, New York, NY 10025, USA
176 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
Machpelah Cemetery, 900 S 20th St, Lexington, MO 64067, United States

Rose Emmet Young (1869 – July 6, 1941) was born in Lexington, Missouri, in 1869 to Thomas Gibbs Young and Henrietta Goalder Young, growing up alongside her brothers Goalder, Evan Shelby, and John Wood. Before embarking on her prominent literary and suffrage careers, she uniquely managed a lumber company.

Moving to New York City in 1899, Young established herself as a skilled writer and editor, contributing fiction and editorials to prominent publications such as Harper's, McClure's, The Century Magazine, Collier's, and The Atlantic Monthly under the pen name R.E. Young. She also served as the literary and art editor for the University Publishing Co. for four years and worked on the staff of the New York Evening Post.

A dedicated advocate for women's rights, Young was hired in 1915 by Carrie Chapman Catt to create and direct the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education, funded by Miriam Leslie's monumental inheritance. Operating as a powerful daily news service, the bureau distributed suffrage news, statistics, and editorials to newspapers nationwide, reaching millions of readers. Extending this monumental communications effort, Young served as the editor-in-chief of The Woman Citizen (later The Woman's Journal), a vital weekly newsletter based at 171 Madison Avenue in New York City.

Deeply embedded in New York's intellectual and feminist circles, Young was a prominent member of Heterodoxy, a famous radical feminist discussion club. Her personal and social life in the city included deep connections with fellow pioneering women, notably Marie Jenney Howe and Marion Cothren. Throughout her life in Manhattan, she resided at notable addresses including 226 W. 97th St and 176 Madison Ave.

Rose Emmet Young passed away on July 6, 1941, in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, at the age of 72, and was laid to rest at Machpelah Cemetery in her hometown of Lexington, Missouri.

References:

• Smith-Dalton, Maggi. Biographical Sketch of Rose Emmet Young, 1869–1941. Alexander Street Press / Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000.
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, James T. White & Co. (containing period biographical records on Young's editorial and suffrage work).
• New York Sun. Obituary for Rose Emmet Young, published Monday, July 7, 1941.
• New York Times. Death notice and obituary, July 8, 1941, p. 19.
• The Woman Citizen (later The Woman's Journal). Periodical issues edited and directed by Rose Emmet Young during her tenure as editor-in-chief, documenting the daily operations of the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education at 171 Madison Avenue.
• United States Federal Census, 1880. Lafayette County, Missouri (listing household details for Thomas Gibbs and Henrietta Goalder Young).
• Machpelah Cemetery Records, Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri (interment records for Rose Emmet Young).
• Specific documentation concerning the Heterodoxy Club, its founder Marie Jenney Howe, and member networks including Marion Cothren, housed across regional biographical collections and historical studies on Greenwich Village radical feminists.

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