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Yewell, George Henry – Young, Alfred

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.

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 S

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1847.

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, 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.