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Yale, Albert W – Yancy, Joel
educator, journalist, clergyman, was born Oct. 9, 1848, in Osceola, Ohio. He received his education at the Denison university of Granville…
Yates, Elizabeth Upham
missionary, lecturer, was born July 3, 1857, in Bristol, Maine. For many years she was a missionary in China; and as the national lecturer…
Yates, Richard
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Warsaw, Ky. He frequently served in the Illinois state…
Yandell, David Wendell – Yates, Richard
physician, educator, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in. Murfreesborough, Tenn. He was appointed professor of surgery in the Indiana Medical…
Yeager, James Martin
clergyman, lecturer, college president, was born Nov. 2, 1857, in Yeagerstown, Pa. He attended the Wyoming seminary and in 1880 graduated…
Yeaman, George H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1829, in Hardin county, Ky. In 1854 he was elected judge of Davies county, Ky. In…
Yates, Robert – Yerger, George Shall
lawyer, jurist, was born March 17, 1738, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was a judge of the supreme court of New York from 1777 to 1790 and was…
Yerkes, Charles Tyson
was born June 25, 1837, in Philadelphia. In 1881 he opened a bank at the corner of La Salle and Madison streets in Chicago. This was…
Yoder, Samuel S
soldier, physician, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1841, in Berlin, Ohio. He enlisted in the one hundred and twenty-eighth Ohio…
Yost, Jacob
journalist, congressman, was born April 1, 1853, in Staunton, Va. In 1875 he purchased an interest in the Valley Virginian, a newspaper…
Yost, Mrs. M. Edith
poet, was born July 26, 1863, in Mount Summit, Ind. She is a writer of Sulphur Springs, Ind.; and the author of a story in rhyme entitled A…
Youmans, Henry Melville
man-- ufacturer, congressman, was born May 15, 1832, in Otego, N. Y. He was in the employ of the York and Erie Railroad company…
Youmans, W. F
lawyer, legislator, was born March 21, 1864, in Hampton, S. C. He received his education at the South Carolina college of Columbia. He has…
Yewell, George Henry – Young, Alfred
artist, was born Jan. 20, 1830, in Havre de Grace, Md. His works include Children on the Sea-Shore; The Wounded Drummer-Boy; Roman…
Young, Brigham
was born June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vt. In 1822 he founded the Mormon sect at Kirkland, Ohio; and was one of the apostles sent out to…
Young, Charles L
soldier, manufacturer, educator, was born Nov. 23, 1838, in Albany, N. Y. He received his education at the Albany academy, the Classical…
Young, George Curson
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1840 in Wis- He was educated at beach, England. Rugby and Eton colleges, and received his medical…
Young, James Rankin
soldier, educator, congressman, was born March 6, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the thirty-second Pennsylvania infantry. He made…
Young, Jesse Bowman
soldier, clergyman, editor, author, was born July 5, 1844, in Berwick, Pa. He was educated in the Dickinson seminary, the Polytechnic…
Young, Andrew White – Young, John
journalist, author, was born March 2, 1802, in Carlisle, N. Y. He was a journalist of Warsaw, N. Y.; and the author of First Lessons in…
Young, John D
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1823, on Flat Creek, Ky. During 1843-46 he was a farmer and deputy sheriff; and…
Young, John Russell
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 20, 1841, in Dowington, Pa. In 1871 he went abroad as one of the foreign correspondents of the…
Young, John S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. He served in the confederate army throughout the war of…
Young, Michael Harry De
journalist, was born in October, 1848, in St. Louis, Mo. He is the editor and owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, and of the best-known…
Young, Peter C
lawyer, jurist, was born May 19, 1848, in Achor, Ohio. This able lawyer of Lisbon, Ohio, for four years was engaged in editorial work; and…
Young, Sherman Pomeroy
clergyman, was born Dec. 26, 1866, in Woodburn, Ill. He graduated from the Mc- Kendrick college with the degree of B. A.; took a…
Young, Thomas Lowry
soldier, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Ireland. He settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the union…
Young, William A
merchant, congressman, was born May 17, 1860, in Norfolk, Va. He was elected from Norfolk City, Va., to the fifty-fifth congress as a…
Young, William James
was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Pittsburg, Pa. During 1873-91 he has been consecutively cashier, vice-president and president of the Oil City…
Young, John Freeman – Young, William S
protestant episcopal bishop, was born Oct. 30, 1820, in Pittston, Maine. Having been elected the second bishop of Florida, he was…
Yutzy, Jacob
educator, clergyman, author, was born May 24, 1847, in Salisbury, Pa. He received his education at the Roanoke college, Virginia; the…
Yulee, David Levy
agriculturist, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1811 in West Indies. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of…