Hon. Henry Augustus Yeaton Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: YEATON
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 756 

     HON. HENRY AUGUSTUS YEATON, who has been prominently
identified with the civil, political and business history of the city of Ports-
mouth and the county of Rockingham for more than forty years, was
born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 6, 1840, and has spent almost his
entire life in this city. He was educated in its public schools, and after
leaving school engaged as a clerk in the hardware store of Hon. John
H. Bailey. He subsequently left the store for a few years of sea-faring
life, returning home to learn the trade of a carpenter under his father's
instruction. In 1864, while working at this trade in the United States
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, he met with an accident which made it im-
possible for him to follow his chosen vocation any longer, and he became
local agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, meeting
with marked success. In 1865 he entered the office of Joshua Brooks,
flour and grain merchant, and became a partner in this business in the
following year, it being conducted under the firm name of Joshua Brooks
& Co. This was the real beginning of his career as a business man, and
he has continued with this concern to the present time, although dur-
ing the interval of forty years changes have taken place in the person-
nel of the old firm as originally established. Mr. Yeaton eventually
succeeded to the interest of his former partner, and when his own son
came to his majority he became junior partner in the present firm; which
for many years has been known to all trade circles as H. A. Yeaton
& Son.
     Mr. Yeaton is a successful and substantial business man, and while
his time has been pretty well occupied with private affairs, he has also
taken an earnest interest in local and state politics. A pronounced Re-
publican, he has never been regarded as being in any sense a politician.
He has served as selectman and member of the board of aldermen of
Portsmouth, as representative to the General Court, and in 1899-1900
was a member of the New Hampshire state senate. He belongs to the
Sons of the Revolution and to Piscataqua Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. In re-
ligion he is a Baptist, a member of Middle Street Baptist Church, and
chairman of its board of wardens, a member of the board of trustees of
the New Hampshire Baptist State Convention, and chairman of its
finance committee. For many years he has been a director in the First
National Bank and a trustee of the Piscataqua Savings Bank, both of
Portsmouth; a director in the Young Men's Christian Association, and
a trustee of the Portsmouth Hospital and of the Howard Benevolent
Society. Since it's organization in 1891 he has been managing director
and treasurer of the Piscataqua Navigation Company and is credited
by his fellow directors as being largely instrumental in the uniform suc-
cess that has attended that company.

Page 757
 
     In January, 1861, Mr. Yeaton married a Abby Brooks. She was
born November 23, 1840, a daughter of Josh a Brooks, with whom Mr.
Yeaton became associated in business. Of his marriage two children
were born, Winifred and Harry B. Winifred became the wife of Albert
E. Rand, a grocer of Portsmouth, and of this union four children were
born: Margaret, Norman E., Wallis S. and Elinor. Harry B. Yeaton,
who is the present mayor of Portsmouth, married Mary E. Ferguson, and 
to them have been born six children, Ruth A., Philip 0., Dorothy,
Donald F., Carolyn F. and Frederick T.