Young Tom enrolled in school in the spring of 1889 and left in the spring of 1894, at the age of 11, going to work first as a milk delivery boy and then as an employee at a soft drink bottling plant to help support his impoverished family.
Tom Young's educational journey spanned from 1889 to 1894, when he was 11 years old. He began his professional life by delivering milk and later worked at a soda bottle manufacturing facility to help alleviate the financial burdens on his struggling household.