Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Yates, Samuel K. March 11, 1858 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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Samuel K. Yates
	Among the early families of America was that of Yates, and the name is 
woven well through our history, being familiar to every reader. The subject of 
our sketch belongs to the original stock that is now spread through the 
states. The present governor of Illinois is also one of them, and through that 
state the name is especially connected with the places of responsibility and 
political trust. It was in that state also that the one whose life we now 
briefly chronicle was born, March 11, 1858, was the time and Peoria county the 
place of his birth.  The farm was the place of his childhood and also of his 
earlier manhood. He attended the common schools of that state and afterward 
graduated from the high school of the town and then returned to farming and 
continued steadily at it until thirty years of age, owning his own farm. At 
that age he retired from that occupation and came to the west to seek what was 
to be found and to look for a place to take up another line of business. From 
all available information he decided that Oregon was the place for him to come 
to and so he did. After a tour of inspection to ascertain what information he 
could to aid his enterprise he chose Milton as the spot, and soon he had 
opened a general merchandise store, where he continued in successful business 
operation until 1899, when he accepted the nomination for treasurer of 
Umatilla county and in June of 1900 he was elected to that position by the 
Republicans. He is still the incumbent of that office. When in Milton he acted 
for several terms as city councilman and also as school director. 
	He fraternizes with the A. O. U. W. and also with the United Artisans.
	It was before he left his native state that he was united in marriage 
to Miss Mary Parks. They have six children--Herbert A., J. Earle, Elmer H., 
Stanley, Cecil C., Mary K. His family are members of the Presbyterian church.
	His father, Joseph Yates, was a pioneer to the prairies of Illinois, 
coming there in 1845. Early the Yates family were pioneers to the raw land of 
savages this side of the Atlantic, and from that time to this there has not 
been lacking a pioneer spirit among them. The present treasurer of this county 
has not let the banner of his ancestors trail in the dust. It has crossed from 
ocean to ocean and still there are ready hands to carry it.
	

Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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