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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present
- Illustrated -
Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers -
1894
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
YANCEY, ticket agent and telegraph operator at North
Bend station. C. C. C. & St. L. R. R., was born near North
Bend, Miami township, the elder of two children who blessed
the union of Joseph and Ruth (Bump) Yancey. He
was educated in the public schools of North Bend, and since
leaving school has been a telegraph operator, receiving his
appointment to his present position with the C. C. C. & St.
L. R. R. in 1888. Mr. Yancey was
married, in December, 1889, to Bertha, daughter of
Joseph Hunt, whose parents were natives of Miami
township, and to this union have been born two children,
named Clifford and Joseph, both of whom
survive.
The parents of our subject are both natives of Miami
township. The father is a prosperous farmer at
Worthington, Ind., where they now reside. The sister
of our subject, Mollie, is the wife of Edward
Piggs, residing at Worthington, Ind. Mr.
Yancey is a member of the Sons of Veterans.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 985 |
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S. ANNIE YATES.
The biography of Dr. S. Annie Yates, founder of the
first Metaphysical College of Ohio, will be of growing
interest as the years pass on and the science in which she
was a pioneer develops, as it must, into the most popular
system of healing. Born Feb. 15, 1850, at Troy, N. Y.,
from early childhood her life was eventful, and from infancy
was manifested that strong personality which is a striking
characteristic. As a genius for music is early shown,
so did the child’s taste and play exhibit a natural gift and
aptitude for the healing art. At six years of age she
was taken by her parents to England, where they remained
eight years, returning again to Troy. An intense
thirst for knowledge stimulated her to gain an education,
which she did unaided, fighting against opposition.
Married at nineteen, she was a widow at twenty-six, with two
children to support. Then commenced a struggle for
existence, newspaper work and teaching affording the means
for livelihood. At this period much time was given to
philanthropic work among the jails, and fallen women, and on
the temperance platform. At last opportunity was found
to follow her natural inclination, and the study of medicine
was commenced under preceptors, and continued at college.
Here began questionings that could not be answered by the
wisest professor, as to the nature of disease, and what it
is that cures and why? Several cases that yielded to
her intense desire to help the sufferer, even after the case
had been pronounced hopeless by the best physicians,
convinced her of the impotency of medicine, and that there
was a healing power higher than, and apart from, drugs.
This knowledge was but nebulous, and then came a fruitless
search among books, doctors and ministers for some light
upon the healing force. Being at last convinced that
she must explore alone in this direction, she took her two
children and went to the far West. There, in the
solitude of a Dakota claim, with the Bible for text-book,
and her own intuitions for teacher, by study, desire and
intense concentration, she found what she sought, and
formulated the unorganized knowledge of a wonderful potency
into a healing science. There it was that the great
grief of her life came, in the sudden death, by being thrown
from a horse, of her beloved daughter, with whom she was in
perfect accord, and united by stronger bonds than parental
love alone. This sorrow seemed to loose earthly ties,
and free her to live and work for suffering humanity.
On emerging from three years’ retirement she was
surprised to find that others had been thinking along these
lines, and schools for teaching mental therapeutics had been
founded and incorporated under various names. Entering
one of these colleges she passed through the course and
graduated; she also examined other systems, but none
appealed to her as being so practically adapted to the needs
of suffering humanity, as was the system she herself had
evolved. On Jan. 1, 1887, Dr. Yates came
to Cincinnati, a stranger in a strange city, herald of a
strange doctrine. With a heart aglow with love for
suffering humanity, she sought her first patients in the
haunts of poverty. Her great success and seemingly
miraculous cures soon brought scores of sufferers to her
door, and the day was only too short for the work that came
to her hand. Rich and poor, high and low, alike sought
the benefit of the new and wonderful healing power. A
school was established, and many earnest and eager inquirers
enrolled themselves as humble students of the Truth, which
is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. In 1888 a
college organization was formed, a charter was granted by
the State, and the Cincinnati School of Metaphysics became
the Cincinnati Metaphysical College, with legal right to
issue diplomas and confer degrees. In the spring of
1888, feeling the need of larger accommodations, a change of
location was made, and the legend, puzzling to many,
“Cincinnati Metaphysical College,” was inscribed in tine
gold lettering over the door of a handsome brown stone front
on Sixth street, near Mound. Here the institution
remained and flourished until 1893, when, to secure the
convenience of a more central location, rooms were secured
for temporary use in the Norfolk building, corner of Eighth
and Elm, pending the search for suitable quarters. Two
courses of lectures have been given each year, and from
October to May a series of Friday evening readings and
informal discussions, to which the public were invited.
All students bear testimony to the benefits accruing to them
from a study of Metaphysics, but all can not equally gain
healing power. The duality of man is taught and the
two states of consciousness—the former acting through the
five senses and the latter controlling all the actions of
the internal organs, and all psychological processes.
It is upon this duality of man that the phrenopathic method
of cure is founded. The Cincinnati Metaphysical
College has from the first been a self-supporting
institution, and needs no further eulogy than “by their
fruits ye shall know them.”
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 698 |
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STEPHEN YUNGBLUTH,
coal dealer, was born July 6, 1830, in Lorraine, France, and
is the youngest of two children born to Nicholas and
Elizabeth (Blaziel) Yungbluth. Mary, the
sister, who was born in 1828, died of cholera in 1849, and
was one of the first persons buried in Saint Bernard’s
Cemetery. The father died Aug. 10, 1893, at the age of
eighty-six years, and the mother died the same day as
President Taylor.
Our subject came to the United States in 1846, and
settled in Cincinnati, where he has since resided. He
was married, Oct. 11, 1852, to Johannah, daughter of
John and Francis (Norsman) Bitter, both natives of
Switzerland, and thirteen children have been born to them:
Franklin died in infancy. John, born
Apr. 15, 1856, is a partner in his father’s business; he is
married and has had four children: John, Estella,
Loretta and Josephine. Amelia is
the wife of William Smith, real-estate agent
of Cincinnati; they have had two children, one of whom is
living, Amelia. Edward died in 1890,
leaving a widow and one child. Stephen married
and had five children. Clara is married to
William Schave, a member and treasurer of the
Krappendorf Company; they have two children, William
and Clara. May, Jennie, Frank
and Louis reside in Cincinnati. Louisa
(Sister Mary Stephina) is at the Convent of
St. Martius Academy, in Newport, Ky. Two others died
in infancy.
Martius Academy, in Newport, Ky. Two others died
in infancy. Mr. Yungbluth may well be
termed a self-made man. In his early boyhood he had no
advantages for obtaining an education, and the position he
now holds in society is entirely due to his own exertions.
His sterling qualities, integrity and uprightness in all
business matters, together with his affable manner and
jovial disposition, made him a general favorite with all who
have had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Mr. and
Mrs. Yungbluth have been connected with St. Stephen’s
Catholic Church from its earliest existence, in which he at
present holds the important position of treasurer.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 901 |
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