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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Delaware Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
1880
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Troy Twp. –
JOSEPH YEATS,
farmer; P. O. Delaware; is a son of John and Nancy (Shields) Yeats.
His father was born in Virginia, and emigrated to Ohio in 1824,
settling in Kingston Township; he afterward removed to Berkshire,
and subsequently to this township, where he died; his mother was
also born in Virginia; they were the parents of eight children––William,
Samuel D., James, Dolly J., Joseph, Thomas. Elizabeth and
Nancy E. Mr. Yeats was born June 24, 1820; he remained
with his parents until 40 years old; he was married, Oct. 1, 1861,
to C. Jane, a daughter of Moses and Mary (Stenbeck)
Gardner; her father was born about 1793, in New Jersey, and
emigrated to Ohio at an early day; her mother was born in 1807, in
Essex Co., N. J., and moved to Ohio in 1820, settling in what is now
Delaware Co.; her marriage with Moses Gardner occurred in
1836; the mother of Mrs. Yeats was one of three children––Mary,
Charles and William; her grandfather Stenbeck died
in 1858, and was of German descent; Mrs. Yeats’ father was
married twice, the first union blessed him with nine children––Mary,
Benjamin, John, Thompson, Susan, Bolivar, George, Alfred and one
deceased, and by the last marriage but one––C. Jane; after
marriage Mr. Yeats settled in Scioto Township, buying 103
acres of land of S. Prough, and in 1864 sold the same to
William Warren, and in the same year bought the present farm of
100 acres, of Michael Deppen, where he has since resided.
They have had two children, both of whom are dead––George F.
and Mary F. He paid out over $200 for the war; has always
voted the Republican ticket; he is industrious, and takes great
interest in improving his farm. Mrs. Yeats began teaching
school when 17 years old, and taught four terms in the country and
three years in the public schools of Delaware.
Source: History of Delaware County and Ohio; Chicago: O. L.
Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1880, p. 785
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Delaware Twp. -
REV. S. L. YOURTEE,
minister of the M. E. Church, Delaware; was born in Washington Co.,
Md., Sept. 21; 1817, and is the son of Abraham and Magdalena
(Brown) Yourtee, both of whom were born in Washington Co., Md.;
his father was a farmer, and on the farm the son remained until he
was 18 years of age, when he began to educate himself, graduating
from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1840, when he was licensed by
the Northern Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church to preach. In 1842,
he was ordained, and was stationed at Millersburg Circuit, where he
remained one year; thence to Sylvania one year; thence, in 1844, to
Toledo, where he was the first stationary preacher of that place;
thence to Lima, two years; thence to Bellefontaine two years; St.
Mary’s, on one year; Tiffin, two years; Elyria, one year, and at
Wooster, where during the first year he was elected President of the
Female College of Delaware, filling that position in 1852 and 1853;
thence to Franklin, one year, then to Pittsburgh, where he was
President of the Pittsburgh Female College for one year when he
joined the Cincinnati Conference, remaining in Cincinnati five
years, at Morrow Chapel two years, Christie Chapel two years, Asbury
Chapel, one year. At the breaking-out of the late civil war, in
1861, he enlisted as Chaplain of the 5th O. V. I., remaining with
that regiment one year when he returned to Cincinnati, and helped
organize the 84th O. V. I., and enlisted in this regimen as
Chaplain, remaining with them until taken sick at Memphis, Tenn.,
where he suffered with fever for several months, and resigned and
returned to his home at Cincinnati; after remaining there short
time, he went to Springfield, Ohio, and preached there three years;
thence to Lockland one year; thence to Yellow Springs, Ohio, one
year, where he received an appointment from Port Clinton, but on
account of sickness did not fill; after resting one year, he was
called to Loveland Station, remaining there one year. He then began
the study of medicine, and was engaged for two years in Springfield
practicing medicine, when he received a call from Richmond, Ind.,
and filled the pulpit of Grace M. E. Church for one year; thence
transferred to the North Ohio Conference; at Clyde two years, also
at Ashland, Ohio.; here, during the first year, he was stricken down
with paralysis, and laid aside for some three years. In 1876, Mr.
Yourtee moved to Delaware. At the last conference he was
appointed to the Woodbury Circuit, which he is now filling. He was
married, in 1840, to Miss Alice C. Alpaugh, of New Jersey;
they had one son, now residing in Kansas City, Mo.; she died in
1868, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; be was married, in 1869, to Mrs.
Laura A. (Henshaw) Sears, of New York, she having one child, a
daughter.
Source: History of Delaware
County and Ohio; Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers,
1880, pp. 652-653
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