Richardson, Young gained control of the NYC and became the chairman of its board. Young maintained offices and an apartment in New York City. However, he preferred to do most of his office work in the privacy of the den of his mansion at Newport, Rhode Island. Among his circle of friends were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. The dreams of Young and innovative Alfred E. Perlman, whom he selected to become president of the NYC, to form a true transcontinental line were frustrated by antitrust suits and by lack of interest on the part of the western lines to merge with the nearly bankrupt NYC. Young donated papers to the University of Texas at Austin. For the rest of his life, he maintained lifelong correspondence with friends he had made in boyhood. Many of Young's friends and smaller investors lost money as NYC stock prices fell. On January 25, 1958, Young, who had suffered from depression for more than fifteen years, committed suicide at his winter mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. He is interred in St. Mary's Episcopal Cemetery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Oddly, Young had helped to restore an old cemetery in Canadian, which was renamed in honor of his aunt, Edith Ford, who had helped to rear him after the early death of his mother. That graveyard is today known as the Edith Ford Cemeteries. See also List of railroad executives References Meaker, M.J. Sudden Endings, 13 Profiles in Depth of Famous Suicides, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964), pp. 123–150: "The Little Swordsman (Robert Young)". External links Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society New York Central System Historical Society Robert Ralph Young Papers (MS 1738). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1897 births 1958 deaths American Presbyterians 20th-century American railroad executives American film studio executives Businesspeople from Newport, Rhode Island Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Culver Academies alumni New York Central Railroad People from Canadian, Texas University of Virginia alumni 1958 suicides