- REUBEN C. YEOMANS, an old and prosperous tradesman of Janesville,
Rock county, has
- long been identified with the gas, steam-fitting and plumbing
interests of that city and has, by strict attention to business,
industry, thrift and an accommodating disposition, acquired a
comfortable fortune, and with it the respect of the public.
- Mr. YEOMANS was born in Otsego county, N.Y., April 10, 1849,
a son of Cyrus and Harriet
- (TANNER) YEOMANS, both native to the soil of that State.
They were the parents of six children, four of whom are now living:
Howard R., of Milwaukee; De Witt Ford, of Chicago; Reuben C.;
and Cyrus E., of La Farge, Vernon Co., Wis. Cyrus YEOMANS, who
was a farmer, came to Wisconsin in 1852, and, locating at Whitewater,
bought eighty acres, following farming until the breaking out
of the Civil war. He enlisted in Company D, 28th Wis. V.I., and
served throughout the war, from 1861 to 1865, making an enviable
record, both as a soldier and a man true to his convictions.
He was strictly temperate, and would neither drink nor play cards.
Mr. YEOMANS was with his regiment in all the battles in which
it participated, notably those at Little Rock, and on the Yazoo
river and Mobile Bay. He lost his health from overdoing. When
the war was over he returned to Whitewater, after several years
moving to Clinton, where he lived some years. He died Feb. 14,
1896, at Elkhorn, Wis., when seventy-six years old. His wife
still survives, making her home with her son De Witt, of Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. YEOMANS were Baptists in their early life. He was
a Republican politically. His father was a native of New York,
of Welsh and Scottish ancestry, and was a millwright in his early
life, later becoming a farmer. He died when almost eighty years
old. He was in the war of 1812, and his father was in the Revolution.
Schuyler TANNER, the maternal grandfather of R. C. YEOMANS, was
a native of New York, of German stock, was a physician, and died
at the age of seventy-seven. He was a man of character and standing,
and held various public positions of honor and trust. His family
was a large one.
- Reuben C. YEOMANS was three years old when his parents brought
him to Wisconsin, where
- his home has been continuously to the present time. He received
his education at Whitewater, began his apprenticeship to the
plumber's trade in 1868, and has followed that business ever
since. For twenty-five years he has lived in Janesville, and
has been intimately associated with its history during that important
period. He lived in Milwaukee five years, and was a resident
of Whitewater and Milton for a time, but his business career
has been almost entirely in Janesville.
- Mr. YEOMANS and Miss Kittie JOHNSON, a daughter of William
JOHNSON, were married
- April 10, 1877. They have one son, Floyd Henry, who is in
the employment of Hibbard & Spencer, wholesale dealers in
hardware, Chicago. Mr. YEOMANS belongs to Western Star Lodge,
No. 14, A.F. & A.M.; to Janesville Chapter, No. 5, R.A.M.;
and to Janesville Commandery, No. 2, K.T. He is a Republican
politically, and a man of the very best standing in his home
city. His comfortable and attractive home is at No. 55 South
High street.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 828-829.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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