After graduation from Cornell University (Class of 1899), Adelaide Young taught biology and physiology at Elmira College, Elmira, New York. She married Dr. Farnham Horatio Shaw.
Papers of Adelaide Taber Young include letters written to her mother during her studies at Cornell, largely concerning student life, sorority affairs, and social activities; student notebooks; scrapbooks (4 vols., 1894-1904) of photographs, programs, clippings, and other memorabilia from Cornell and Elmira College, including items concerning her sister, Sara Louise (Elmira Class of 1904); a book of American history notes (1898); 53 photographs of trees identified by their Latin names, with a letter (1901) from Professor Willard W. Rowlee of the Cornell Botany Department concerning them, and 22 pressed and mounted botanical specimens (unidentified); a letter (1901) from George Lincoln Burr; correspondence (1890-1901) with family and friends; photographs of friends and relatives from her hometown, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, from Cornell and Ithaca, and from Elmira College.
Adelaide Taber Young papers, #37-5-820. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.