Owen D. Young
American industrialist, lawyer, and diplomat known for the Young Plan and RCA.
Chronology: 1874-10-27 – 1962-07-11
Origins & Early Life
Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 – July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929 as a member of the Reparation Commission. He is known for the eponymous Young Plan devised in 1929 to settle Germany's World War I debt and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.
Pivotal Works & Achievements
RCA was separated into as another traded company in 1932. This was although they still held a large portion of RCA shares and liquidated by GE in 1986. == Early life and family == Owen D. Young was born on October 27, 1874, on a small farmhouse in the village of Van Hornesville, Town of Stark, New York. His parents’ names were Jacob Smith Young and Ida Brandow and they worked the farm that his grandfather owned.
Enduring Legacy & Impact
Owen was an only child, his parents lost their first born son before he was born, and his birth was something rejoiced. He was the first male of the family to have a name that was not biblical since they had first arrived in 1750, driven from the Palatinate on the Rhine in Germany by constant...
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