Casper S. YOST  Biography
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Source:  Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State), One Hundred
Years in the Union 1820-1921, Illustrated, Volume V, St. Louis - Chicago,
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1921

Casper S. YOST (photo available):  Casper S. YOST, editor of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, was born in Sedalia, Missouri, July 1, 1864.  His father,
George Casper YOST, was a native of Gallatin County, Illinois and a saddler
by occupation.  His father, Henry YOST, was born in Virginia in 1785 and
there became a planter and slave holder.  About 1812 he was converted
becoming a firm believe in the Christian religion and from conscientious
scruples freed his slaves and removed to Illinois in order to rear his
children in a free territory.  In tracing the ancestral line still further
back it is found that Henry YOST, Casper S. YOST's great-grandfather,
entered the American army from Maryland and served with credit throughout
the Revolutionary war.  The ancestral history shows the family of German
origin.  The first representatives of the name in the United States crossed
the Atlantic about 1725 and settled in eastern Pennsylvania where they
became successful farmers.  The mother of Casper S. YOST, who bore the
maiden name of Sarah E. MORRIS, was born in Saugerties, New York, where her
family had resided for many years, her ancestors coming originally from
Wales.

Casper S. YOST acquired his early education in the public schools of
Missouri and when but eight years of age began setting type on a weekly
newspaper published at Lebanon, Missouri, finding it necessary to stand on
a chair in order to reach the case.  In 1881, when but a youth of seventeen
years he came to St. Louis and was employed as a reporter for about nine
months, after which he went to Richland, Missouri, desiring to become a
railroad man.  He worked along this line, learning telegraphy in the
meantime, but in 1885, he returned to newspaper work and became a reporter
on the Missouri Republican, being thus employed until 1889 in which year he
entered the service of the St. Louis Globe Democrat.  Since then no changes
in his business career have occurred save those which have come to him
through promotion as the result of his energies and the development of his
traits as a journalist.  Through constant practice he has advanced until he
is today editor of a paper that is recognized through the country as on of
the foremost journals of the United States, while is one of the most
convincing editorial writers in the country.

When nineteen years of age Mr. YOST was married to Anna A. PARROTT, of
Richland, Missouri, who was early left an orphan, and was a descendant in
both paternal and maternal lines from old colonial families.  To Mr. and
Mrs. YOST have been born three sons:  Alfred C., thirty-six years of age,
an artist and draftsman who served in France in the Engineering Division;
Robert G., thirty-five years of age who is married and has two children:
and Casper S., thirty-one years of age who is married and has one child.

In politics Mr. YOST is a republican.  He belongs to the Missouri Athletic
Club, the Chamber of Commerce and to the Sons of the American Revolution
and he is often found in those gatherings where intellectual men are met in
the discussion of important problems, their discussions frequently leading
to the shaping of public thought and action.