Jefferson County, West Virginia         Biography of Solomon Vance YANTIS

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Pg. 395

BIO: Solomon Vance Yantis, Jefferson Co., WV

	Solomon Vance Yantis, whose death occurred at his home in the City of 
Harpers Ferry in the year of 1899, accounted well to the world in sterling 
attributes of character and in large and worthy achievement.  He passed his 
entire life in Jefferson County, and was a scion of one of its honored 
pioneer families.  In this county he was born on the 21st of September, 
1826, and in the same county was born his father, Isaac Yantis, a well 
fortified family tradition being that the latter was descendant of one of 
four brothers who immigrated to America from Holland in the early colonial 
period of our national history, one of the number settling in Ohio and the 
other three in the South.  The ancestor of the subject of this memoir was 
one of the very early settlers in what is now Jefferson County, West 
Virginia.
	Solomon V. Yantis was reared and educated under the conditions that marked 
the middle-pioneer period in the history of Jefferson County, and upon 
establishing his residence at Harpers Ferry he engaged in business as a 
tobacconist.  He also became secretary and  part owner the company that 
operated the flour mill in this city, gave loyal and effective service as a 
member of the City Council and also held for a number of years the office of 
postmaster.  His wife, whose maiden name was Josephine Hones, was born in 
Fauquier County, Virginia, and she preceded him to eternal rest, her death 
having occurred in 1892.  They became the parents of seven children, namely: 
Shaulter Vance, Arnold Stevens, Eleanor; Gertrude W., Margaret M., Josephine 
a., and Laura S.  Laura S. is the widow of Theodore M. Conner, whose 
biography follows this and she is serving, in 1922, as postmistress of 
Harpers Ferry.