BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Andrew YEAGLEY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 45-6
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DR. ANDREW YEAGLEY, deceased, was a well-known and popular physician of 
Johnstown, and was born March 24, 1830, in Union township, Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry and Phoebe Yeagley, both of the latter 
dying in Connellsville, the same county, the former at the age of eighty-seven 
and the latter at the age of eighty.
     Dr. Andrew Yeagley, was reared on the paternal acres, attending the public 
schools of his neighborhood, and afterwards broadened his mental training by a 
thorough academic course at Carmichaels, Greene county, Pennsylvania.
     In 1850 he came to Johnstown and took up the study of his profession in the 
office of his brother Henry. Having diligently pursued his studies, he entered 
the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, from which he graduated in 1852. He at 
once located at Fairfield, Westmoreland county, where he remained but a short 
time, when he came to Johnstown, and was in active and successful practice, in 
partnership with his brother, until his death, which sad event took place 
October 23, 1889, and was occasioned by the Great Flood.
     He was eminently successful in his chosen profession, and was widely known 
throughout the county of his adoption.
     Not only in professional circles was he highly respected, but in political 
matters recognized as a leader. He was a democrat in political faith, and in 
1878 his party honored him by electing him to the office of county treasurer of 
Cambria county, and for three years he filled the responsible duties of that 
office with signal ability.
     In 1870 he married Mrs. Mary L. (Otter) Criley, a daughter of James Otter, 
of New York city, and to this marital relation were born two children: Arthur H. 
and Bella. Dr. Andrew Yeagley possessed those elements of mind that makes their 
possessor influential and respected. He had a clear judgment, and was a good 
judge of human nature, rarely failing in his estimate of individuals and 
possessed a deep sympathy that contributed to make him very popular with his 
patients. The grandfather of Mrs. Yeagley, James Otter, was born at Hampton 
Courts, England. When a young man he left the mother country, and came to New 
York city, where he resided many years, when he removed to Galveston, Texas, 
where he received a grant of a large tract of government land, and it is 
supposed the city is now built upon a portion of this land. He was a sea 
captain, owning his own vessels, and as such sailed over a great portion of the 
marine world. During this time his home and family were in New York city. During 
the war of 1812 he served in the naval forces of the United States, for which 
service he received the grant of land above referred to. His son, James Otter, 
father of Mrs. Yeagley, was born in New York city in 1814, and resided in the 
city of his birth until death closed his career at the early age of twenty-eight 
years, Mrs. Yeagley being a babe of eight weeks at the death of her father. He 
married Sarah Furey, a daughter of Wm. Furey, who was a native of Ireland and a 
man of thorough classical education, and a gentleman of refinement and culture. 
After the death of James Otter his widow wedded Philip J. Arthur, and she now 
lives in Indiana county, this State, at the advanced age of seventy-five years.
     Mrs. Yeagley came to Johnstown in 1866, and for four years was engaged as a 
teacher. In 1889 she was appointed to the honorable and responsible position of 
librarian of the Carnegie Free library of that city.