BIO: Gillepsie B. YEANEY, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 371. _____________________________________________________________ GILLESPIE B. YEANEY, M. D., who has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine at Clearfield, Pa., since 1904, was born October 25, 1880 at New Mayville, Clarion county, Pa., and is the only son of Peter M. and Nannie (Cummings) Yeaney of Clarion county, Pa. His father is vice- president of the Second National Bank of Clarion and has been a resident of Clarion county all his life. Dr. G. B. Yeaney was reared at Clarion, Pa., where he attended the high school, and also took a course at the Clarion Normal. He took up the study of medicine at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, now University of Pittsburg, and after graduating with the class of 1903. He then took a post graduate course in Nw York City. In 1904 he came to Clearfield, Pa., where he has his office at his residence at No. 104 South Second street, and has established an extensive practice, and won the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. Dr. Yeaney was married September 12, 1904, to Ella Olsen, who is a daughter of Larsen Olsen (deceased), and they have one daughter, Catherine Pauline. Dr. Yeaney is a member of the American, the State and County Medical Societies, and also of several fraternal organizations. He is politically a Republican, although inclined to be independent. Dr. and Mrs. Yeaney are members of the Presbyterian church.