Back when graduating classes were significantly smaller, college and university yearbooks often presented members of the faculty. The University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries have digitized its “The Badger” yearbooks from 1885 through 2014. The portrait of Allyn Abbot Young above and the text below come from the 1907 yearbook.
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Allyn Abbot Young, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
ALLYN ABBOT YOUNG was born Sept. 19, 1876 at Canton, Ohio. His early education was secured in the public and private schools of Sioux Falls, S.D. In 1894 he received the degree of Ph.B. from Hiram College in Ohio. For four years Professor Young was engaged in business and journalism; then in 1898 he took up graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he was instructor in Economics for the year 1901-1902. In 1902 he took the degree of Ph.D. from the same institution. For the next two years he was at the head of the department of Economics in Western Reserve University, at Cleveland Ohio. In 1904 he was made assistant professor of finance at Dartmouth College, and in 1905 was appointed assistant professor of Economics at the Universitv of Wisconsin.
The publications of Professor Young have been mainly along the line of statistics, including a discussion of age statistics published by the Federal Census of 1900.
Source: University of Wisconsin. The Badger 1907 (Vol. XXI), p. 64.