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Yates, Robert – Yerger, George Shall

Yates, Robert

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 chief justice from 1790 to 1798. He was commissioned to treat with the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut on the subject of territory and to settle the claims of New York against the state of Vermont. He died Sept. 9, 1801, in Albany, N. Y.

Yeagley, John W

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 12, 1843, in New Somerset, Ohio. He is an able lawyer of New Philadelphia, Ohio, of which city he has been mayor. For six years he was judge of the probate court of his county.

Yeamans, John

governor, was born about 1605 in England. During 1671-74 he was governor of South Carolina. He died about 1676, in the West Indies.

Yeardley, George

governor, was born in 1580, in England. He was governor of Virginia in 1616, 1619-21, and in 1625. In 1619 the first general assembly met in Virginia, and during his administration many important improvements were made. He died in 1627.

Yeates, Jasper

lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 9, 1745, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania from 1791 until his death. He published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1808 in four volumes. He died March 14, 1817, in Lancaster, Pa.

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.