About Della Ione Young
Lived 1872 – 1948 (aged 75–76). Della Ione Young was a poet.
Della Iona Cann Young (1872-1945) was Oklahoma's fourth poet laureate, appointed in 1943 by Governor Robert S. Kerr.
Young was born Della Iona Cann in Holton, Kansas on February 8, 1872. She married Andrew Clyde Young in 1906 and they had three children. At the time of her appointment as poet laureate, Young had published only two poems, and she never published a volume of poetry.
Most of Young's career was spent as an educator in Western Oklahoma.
According to her gravestone, she died May 16, 1945 in Elk City, Oklahoma.
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Who was Della Ione Young?
American poet
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Della Ione Young was born on 8 February 1872 in Holton.
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Della Ione Young died in 1948.
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Della Ione Young was a poet.
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