George Fremont Yates and Jennie S. Purcell

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Husband George Fremont Yates ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Jan 1853 - Columbus, Warren Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Judge George Van Ness Yates (1822-1876) 1 3
         Mother: Lucy A. Smith (1825-Aft 1899) 3 4

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       Marriage: 1881 1

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Wife Jennie S. Purcell ^{1 3}

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           Born: 25 Jul 1863 - Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo Co, MI 5
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         Father: William Clark Purcell (1834-      ) 3
         Mother: Caroline Virginia Smith (1834-      ) 5

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Children

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1 M George Van Ness Yates ^{1 5}

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           Born: 7 Apr 1882 5
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2 F Lucy J. Yates ^{1 5}

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           Born: 28 Dec 1883 5
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3 F Helen C. Yates ⁵

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           Born: 23 Jan 1888 5
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General Notes: Husband - George Fremont Yates

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He became engaged in the mercantile business in 1872, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and in 1875 came to Columbus, Warren County, where he became engaged in the drug business. He sold his interest in this and went to Jamestown, New York, but in 1878 returned to Columbus, where he became engaged in the general mercantile business, and later became a member of firm of Yates & Smith.
He was elected treasurer of Warren County, November 3, 1886.

He attended the public schools of his native town during his boyhood, after which he took a finishing course of two years at the Clinton Liberal Institute, in Clinton, New York. After leaving this institution he taught one term and then became a clerk in a hardware store in Jamestown, New York, where he remained several years. This task he relinquished to engage in mercantile business on his own behalf. He conducted business enterprises in Pennsylvania in both Warren and Butler counties. November 3, 1886, he was elected treasurer of Warren County and served in that office for three years. In 1889, he was appointed deputy prothonotary of Warren County, and was elected to fill the office of prothonotary in November, 1891, and reelected to the same office in 1894. He also served as secretary and treasurer of the school board for six years, and was chief burgess of the borough of Columbus one term.
He was a member of the Masonic order and also of the Knights of Pythias.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie S. Purcell

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She received her education in the schools of Schoolcraft, Michigan, her native city, and graduated with high honors in the class of 1878, at the early age of fifteen years. She was a musician of some note, and served as organist of the First Presbyterian Church of Warren, Pennsylvania, for many years.

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 108.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 68.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 69.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 87, 108.

5 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 70.