Robert Dixon Young was a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Young was born in Kirkentollock, Dunbartonshire

Dunbartonshire

Dunbartonshire or the County of Dumbarton is a lieutenancy area and registration county in the west central Lowlands of Scotland lying to the north of the River Clyde. Until 1975 it was a county used as a primary unit of local government with its county town and administrative centre at the town...

, Scotland. In 1872 he immigrated to the United States with his parents, who as Latter-day Saints wanted to join with the body of the Church. They lived in Salt Lake City for about a year and then moved to Richfield, Utah. In 1891 Young was ordained a seventy by Francis M. Lyman

Francis M. Lyman

Francis Marion Lyman was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was the President of the Quorum from 1903 until his death....

. That same year he married Mary S. Parker. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Australia from 1901-1904.

Young became president of the Sevier Stake of Zion, which was at that point co-terminus with Sevier County, Utah

Sevier County, Utah

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,842 people, 6,081 households, and 4,907 families residing in the county. The population density was 10 people per square mile . There were 7,016 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...

 in 1910. In 1921 the stake was divided into three and Young continued as president of the Sevier stake which was reduced to only having Richfield

Richfield, Utah

Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, in the United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off of Interstate 70 about 40 miles east of its junction with...

 and such neighboring towns as Glenwood

Glenwood, Utah

Glenwood is a town in Sevier County, Utah, United States. The population was 437 at the 2000 census.- History :Glenwood was established in 1863 by Mormon pioneers. It was named for an early pioneer, Robert Wilson Glenn...

 and Venice.

Young and his wife Mary were the parents of eight children. For several years Young was connected with the operations of the Otter Creek Reservoir Company.

Young was released as president of the Sevier Stake in 1933 when he was called to served as president of the Manti Temple. He served in this position until 1943. Young served as president of the Salt Lake Temple

Salt Lake Temple

The Salt Lake Temple is the largest and best-known of more than 130 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the sixth temple built by the church, requiring 40 years to complete, and the fourth operating temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo,...

 from 1949-1953.

Sources

• N. B. Lundwall. Temples of the Most High. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1968) p. 113, 133.
• Andrew Jenson
  Andrew Jenson
  Andrew Jenson, born Anders Jensen, was a Danish immigrant to the United States who acted as an Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for much of the early-twentieth century...
  
  . Encyclopedic History of the Church. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 787.
• Jenson. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol 2, p. 743.
• Conference Report, April 1963.