Yeates, Jesse J – Young, Alfred
Yeates, Jesse J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 29, 1829, in, Hertford county, N. C. He was solicitor of Hertford county from 1855 to 1860 and a representative in the North Carolina state legislature in 1860. He served as major in the confederate army. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-fourth congress and reelected to the forty-fifth congress.
Yeiser, John O
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 15, 1866, in Danville, Ky.
He has attained success as a lawyer in Omaha, Neb., and has served with distinction as a member of the Nebraska state legislature.
Yell, Archibald
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1797 in Kentucky. He was appointed one of the judges of Arkansas Territory.
He was elected a representative in congress from 1835 to 1839, and was again elected in 1845, serving only until 1846.
He was governor of Arkansas in 1842 and 1844. He was killed at the battle of Buena Vista, while in command of a regiment of Arkansas mounted volunteers, Feb. 23, 1847.
Yelland, Raymond D
artist, was born Feb. 2, 1848, in England. During 1877-78 he was assistant director of the California School of Design, of which he was elected director in 1888. Among his works are Half-Moon Beach; The Lonely Sea; Sunlight and Shadow; The Golden Gate at Even; Mount Tacoma; Mount Hood; Columbia River; Golden Gate; Near Dordrecht; and Faringford, Isle of Wight.
Yeomans, James D
railroad builder, public official, was born April 21, 1845, in Wyoming county, N. Y. He has been the general superintendent of the Baltimore, New York and Pittsburg railway; general superintendent of the Ohio, Boston and Western railway; and has built many railroads in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. He is now inter-state commerce commissioner at Washington, D. C.
Yeomans, William H
lawyer, jurist, was born July 14, 1835, in Columbia, Conn. He has attained success as a lawyer in his native city; has been judge and filled various other public positions of trust.
Yerger, George Shall
lawyer, was born Aug. 23, 1801, in Hagerstown, Md. He settled in Nashville; was for many years reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Tennessee, and was elected attorney-general of the state. He died April 20, 1860, in Bolivar county, Miss.
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 operated in conjunction with his house in Philadelphia, the latter managed by his partner. From the time of his advent in Chicago he has had charge of the North Chicago City railway. A recent gift from him to the university of Chicago was a telescope, designed to be the largest and finest in the world, and cost about half a million dollars.
Yewell, George Henry
artist, was born Jan. 20, 1830, in Havre de Grace, Md. His works include Children on the Sea-Shore; The Wounded Drummer-Boy; Roman Shepherd-Boy; some Venetian subjects, including interior views of the church of St. Mark; Santa Maria delle Salute; In the Church of San Pietro, Perugia; and In the Carpet Bazaar, Cairo; and Mosque of Kait-Bey, Cairo.
Yoakum, Charles H
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1850 in Limestone, county, Tex. He was elected district attorney for the eighth judicial district in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to the state senate in 1892 for four years from Greenville, Tex.; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Yoakum, Henderson K
lawyer, author, was born in 1810 in Claiborne ccunty, Tenn. He was a lawyer of Huntsville, Tex.; and the author of History of Texas from its First Settlement to its Annexation to the United States. He died Nov. 29, 1856, in Houston, Tex.
Yocum, Seth H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1834, in Columbia county, Pa. He served in the union army in the war of the rebellion; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth congress.
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 infantry; rose to the rank of lieutenant, and served till the end of the war. He studied medicine, and practiced his profession for eighteen years. He was elected mayor of Bluffton, Ohio; served as a member of state democratic executive committee; and was elected judge of the probate court of Allen county, Ohio, and served from 1882 till 1886, when he resigned. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a democrat.
York, Tyre
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 4, 1836, in Rockford, N. C. In 1865 he was elected a representative in the North Carolina state legislature, and served in one or the other branch of that body almost continuously until elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Yorke, Thomas J
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He was a candidate for election to the twenty-sixth congress, but, although he came with the broad seal of his state, was not admitted.
Yost, George Washington New- Ton
inventor, was born April 15, 1831, in Dundee, N. Y. He was the inventor of the Yost typewriter.
Yost, Jacob
journalist, congressman, was born April 1, 1853, in Staunton, Va.
In 1875 he purchased an interest in the Valley Virginian, a newspaper published at Staunton, and was actively engaged in journalism till 1889, since which time he has devoted himself to general business, principally in connection with iron ore and coal. He was elected mayor of the city of Staunton in 1886; and was a member of the fiftieth congress. He was the republican nominee for congress in 1888 and again in 1894; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Yost, Jacob S
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1847.
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 Summer Tale, and Other Poems.
Youmans, Edward Livingston
scientist, journalist, author, was born June 3, 1821, in Coeyman's, N. Y. He was an eminent scientist who, though partially blind for many years, wrote and lectured extensively, beside editing The Popular Science Monthly in 1872-87. He was the author of Handbook of Household Science; The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of Man; Chemical Atlas; and Correlation and Conservation of Forces (edited). He died Jan. 18, 1887, in New York city.
Youmans, Eliza Ann
author, was born Dec. 17, 1826, in Saratoga, N. Y. She is the author of First and Second Books of Botany; Descriptive Botany; and Lessons in Cookery.
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, Susquehanna division, for ten years. He removed to East Saginaw. Mich., in 1862; and engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt. He was elected mayor of East Saginaw for the years 1886 and 1887; and held all the positions of honor under the municipal government of East Saginaw, where he now resides. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat; and in 1897- 98 served as a member of the Michigan state senate.
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 served with distinction as a member of the lower house of the South Carolina legislature; was the adviser of the governor during the Darlington riot. He is a successful lawyer in his native city; was for two terms a trustee of the Citadel academy of Charleston, S. C.; and was one of the originators of the dispensary.
Youmans, William Jay
physician, scientist, journalist, author, was born Oct. 14, 1838, in Saratoga, N. Y. He is a physician and scientist of New York city, and editor of The Popular Science Monthly from 1887. He is the author of Pioneers of Science in America; and coauthor with Huxley of Elements of Physiology and Hygiene.
Young, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born in 1800 in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South church; and the author of Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers; and Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-36. He edited The Library of Old English Prose Writers. He died in 1854.
Young, Alexander
journalist, author, was born May 19, 1836, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston journalist on the editorial staff of The Post; and the author of History of the Netherlands; and Young Folks' History of the Netherlands.
He died March 19, 1891, in Boston, Mass.
Young, Alfred
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 21, 1831, in England. Besides magazine articles on sundry religious topics and a series of epigrammatic poems on scriptural texts in the Catholic World, he has published Catholic Hymns and Canticles; The Office of Vespers; The Catholic Hymnal; and Carols for a Merry Christmas and a Joyous Easter.