Personal Life
Young fathered an illegitimate child, whose mother, Annivory Calvert, gave him the alias Joel Loving at birth, for security reasons. Young set up a private Roman Catholic Baptismal Ceremony when his son was two months old and gave the child his name on sequestered Roman Catholic Baptismal records. Young went to court when his son was age 13 and had his birth certificate changed to match the baptismal record.
His son, Coleman A. Young II, is currently a State Senator in Michigan's 1st State Senate district and was previously a State Representative in Michigan's 4th State Representative district, the same district where Young lived as Mayor and served as State Senator. Though Young had publicly denied the child as being his, he later admitted paternity, after DNA tests linked the boy to the mayor following a paternity lawsuit filed by Calvert.
Young was a Prince Hall Freemason. He died from emphysema in 1997. Upon learning of Young's death, former President Jimmy Carter called Young "one of the greatest mayors our country has known."
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