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honors at the hands of his party. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Yates are Virginia Levy Yates, Ruby Arthur Yates (now the wife of H. M. Lacy, of Salem, Oregon); John M. Yates, of Portland, Oregon; Emma Coleman Yates, Mary Lee Yates, Wylie Edward Yates and Paul Trimble Yates.

Yeager, Robert Lyter, lawyer and president of the Board of Education of Kansas City, was born August 26, 1843, in Oldham County, Kentucky, son of Elijah Yeager, a native of Virginia, and Elizabeth Lewis (Redd) Yeager, a native of Kentucky. He lived on the home farm until he was nine years of age, when his father and mother were taken from him, their deaths occurring less than ten days apart. The boy came to Missouri, and at an early age he realized that he had the problem of life to solve, almost without encouragement or assistance. Determination and ambition were in his heart, and as opportunity afforded he attended the country schools until he was fifteen years old. He then entered the St. Paul Episcopal College at Palmyra, Missouri, graduating in 1861. Being a son of the South, he naturally espoused its cause, and when hostilities between the two sections of the country were declared he enlisted, fresh from college halls and youthful in years, for the service of war. He became a member of Kneisley's Battery and served as an artilleryman for a year and a half. He was then transferred to Pindall's Sharpshooters, the battalion being a part of Parsons' division of Price's corps. He served as a sharpshooter until the close of the war.

The cessation of strife saw him a loyal citizen, and after the muster-out he removed to Texas. There he began the study of law and for one year was in the office of ex-Governor Throckmorton, at McKinney, Texas. At the end of the year he left that State and removed to the State of his nativity, entering the Kentucky Law School at Louisville. From that institution he was graduated in 1867. He then returned to Missouri and opened an office in Kansas City, where he has for many years been one of the recognized leaders of the profession and a man highly honored by the friends of his close acquaintance and by the public in general. Without active search for political preferment he was elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Missouri, in 1872, and

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was re-elected two years later. tunity to serve in the same capacity a third term was declined. In 1890 he was appointed city counselor of Kansas City, but resigned at the close of one year in that office. He is a man of extensive business affairs, as well as of high legal attainments, and is a director in the First National Bank of Kansas City and president of the Safety Savings & Loan Association of that city. In educational affairs he has been most highly useful. The public school system has found in him a friend tried and true, and the schools of Kansas City have been the constant subject for his encouragement and support. In April, 1879, he was elected a director of the public schools, and has served faithfully as a member of the board of education since that time. When, in March, 1882, Mr. J. V. C. Karnes tendered his resignation as president of the board, Mr. Yeager was elected to fill that position of honor, and it is still filled most ably and creditably by him. In politics. he has been an active Democrat, fair-minded and broad in all his views. From 1894, for a period of three years, he served as chairman of the Fifth District Democratic Congressional Committee, and showed himself possessed of rare tact and ability in directing campaigns. He is a member of the Christian Church, is a generous donor to the worthy cause, and a supporter of every philanthropic movement. He is a Mason of high standing and advancement, and is a member of the Knights of Honor. In 1870 he was married to Miss Leonora Forbis, of Independence, Missouri, and to this union five children have been born. Mr. Yeager stands for all that is noble and manly, holds a high place in the legal profession, and none enjoys a more liberal share of public confidence than he.

Yeaman, William Pope, clergyman and author, of Columbia, Missouri, was born May 28, 1832, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents were Stephen Minor and Lucretia (Helm) Yeaman. Stephen Yeaman was born in Ohio, removing to Kentucky when quite a young man. A gentleman of rare intellectual gifts and literary culture, he was by profession a lawyer, but retired from practice in early life and died at the age of fiftyfive years. His ancestors were natives of New Jersey, who removed thence to Pennsylvania

and Ohio. Stephen Yeaman's wife was a daughter of George and Rebecca (LaRue) Helm; her father was a son of Thomas Helm, whose wife was Jennie Pope, and her mother was a daughter of John LaRue, for whom LaRue County, in Kentucky, was named by act of the Legislature. The Helm and LaRue families were from Virginia and settled in Kentucky. William Pope Yeaman acquired his highest education at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in the collegiate institute of which the famous scholar and teacher, Robert Hewett, was principal. His course embraced a progressive system beginning in the primary English branches and ending with Latin and mathematics, all thoroughly taught. Adverse circumstances now obliged the sons of Stephen Yeaman to go out into the world without adventitious aid and with no resources save their own necessities, their determination, and the stimulus afforded them by the high character, wise precepts and noble example of upright, God-fearing parents. These brothers, six in number, chose the law as a profession. At the age of nineteen years William was admitted to the bar and entered upon a practice which became extensive and remunerative. In his twenty-eighth year culminated a severe struggle between ambition and sense of duty. As a result, he abandoned the law and engaged in the gospel ministry, as did his brother, John Helm Yeaman. The latter, however, failed in health, became a

firmed invalid and died at Henderson, Kentucky, when forty years of age. In 1860 William Pope Yeaman was ordained to the ministry of the Baptist Church and immediately entered upon an active and useful work. After nearly ten years' connection with some of the leading churches of his denomination in Kentucky, including those at Nicholasville and Covington, in 1867 he was called to the pastorate of the Central Baptist Church in New York City. He remained with that charge for three years, when he was chosen as pastor of the Third Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, and entered upon his duties with that large and influential congregation in March, 1870. During his pastoral relations with this church, which ended with his resignation in 1876, it was greatly blessed with spiritual power, in numerical increase and in material prosperity, while Mr. Yeaman had come to be known throughout the

denomination as one of its most eminent divines. The acknowledgment was given tangible form by the faculty of William Jewell College, of Liberty, Missouri, which conferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. In referring to his work, the religious press quite generally commended him for his profound scholarship, analytical mind, fervent eloquence and untiring energy. Dr. Yeaman now devoted his energies to furthering the interests of William Jewell College and to the editorial management of the "Central Baptist," the denominational paper in St. Louis, and was so engaged about two years. In 1877, in response to a call, he assisted in founding the Garrison Avenue Baptist Church in St. Louis, and became its first pastor, remaining with it to witness its firm establishment. In 1879 he resigned, being impelled to this step out of consideration of the duty owing to his family in the preservation of his health. His retirement was deeply regretted by the people to whom he had ministered, and who had learned to love him so well. Since that time Dr. Yeaman has made his home upon a farm near Columbia, Missouri, where he devotes himself to agriculture and theological and literary studies. Dr. Yeaman was a Whig and an ardent admirer and devoted follower of Henry Clay as long as that party had an existence. In the political campaign immediately preceding the war between the States, he was a BellEverett American, and after the beginning of hostilities he affiliated with the Democratic party, as he does now. He was a Union man during the war, but he held warm Southern sympathies, and was alike opposed to coercion, to the abolition of slavery by presidential proclamation, and to the status given the negro by the civil rights legislation. Aside from his ministerial duties Dr. Yeaman has occupied many denominational positions of honor and trust. For about six years previous to 1867 he was secretary of the Baptist General Association of Kentucky, for six years he was moderator of the St. Louis Baptist Association, for twenty years moderator of the Missouri Baptist General Association, for twelve years moderator of Mount Zion Baptist Association, and for eight years corresponding secretary of the Missouri General Association. In educational matters he was president of the board of curators of the