Timothy Hackworth Young was born 20 January 1855 and was the son of Jane Young (nee Hackworth) and George Edward Young, Wesleyan Preacher.

He emigrated to the United States where he married Elenore Fairchild, they had no children. He worked with his cousin Samuel Holmes who was also living in America with arrangements for the Baltimore and Ohio Railway’s exhibition at World Columbian Exposition. It is not known when he died.