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iam Livingston. 1S54-G0. and in the latter year was admitted to practice in Albany, He was married in 17(55 to Jannetie Van Ness of Schenec- tady. He was a member of the New York pro- vincial congress, 1775-77 ; a member of the state council of safety, 1776. and also of the committee that drafted tlie first constitution of New York in August, 1776 ; a member of the state constitu- tional convention of 1777 ; one of the first judges of tlje supreme court, 1776-98, serving as chief- justice, 1790-98. He was a delegate from New York to the convention that framed the Federal constitution, 1787, opposing the adoption of that instrument ; was a commissioner on the territo- rial question between Massachusetts and Connec- ticut, and also on the settlement of the claims of New York against Vermont. He died in Albany, N.Y.. Sept. 9. ISOI.

YELL, Archibald, governor of Arkansas, was b.irn in North Carolina in August, 1797. He emigrated to Tennessee in his early j'outh, and settled first in Bedford county, wliere he first met General Jackson and was appointed captain of the Jackson Guards. He took part in the Creek campaign, leading his men in the battles of Talladega, Emucfan and Horseshoe Bend, and when Jackson called for volunteers to defend New Orleans, in the war of 1812, Yell was among the first to respond, and participated in the battle of Jan. 8, 1814. He was admitted to the bar in Tennessee, and in 1818 again served as a volun- teer under General Jackson in the Seminole war. He removed to Fayetteville. Lincoln county, Tenu., where. he practised law until 1832, when he was appointed by President Jackson territorial judge of Arkansas, after refusing the governor- ship of the Territory of Florida. He settled in Fayetteville, Ark., serving as judge till 1835, and was a Democratic representative in the 24:th-25th congresses, 1836-39, taking his seat, Dec. 5, 1836. He was three times married. He was governor of Arkansas iu 1840-44, resigning to accept the nomination for congress. He was a representa- tive in the 29th congress, taking his seat, Dec. 1, 1845, and serving until July 1, 1846, when he re- signed to serve in the Mexican war, being ap- pointed to the command of a regiment of Ar- kansas troops. He served in General Taylor's army of occupation, and on Feb. 22, 1847, led his cavalry in a desperate charge at Buena Vista, where he was mortally wounded, dying on the battle field. His body was carried by the govern- ment back to Fayetteville, Ark., where in 1847 the Masons, of which organization he was grand master, erected a marble shaft over his grave. The date of his death is Fel). 22, 1847.

YEWELL, George Henry, artist, was born in Havre-de-Gra^-e. Md.. J.n;. 20. ]s:50 ; son of Sol- omon and Harriet (Carver) Ye well. His earlv

school days were passed in Cincinnati. Ohio. In 1841 his mother, then a widow, took liim to Iowa City, Iowa, where he began to show a talent for drawing. In 1851 he was sent to New York, by Judge Charles Mason, to study art under Thomas Ilicks, and at the National Academy of Design. He went to Paris in 1856, and became a pupil of Thomas Couture. Returning in 1861 he opened a studio in New York, and was elected an As- sociate of the Academy in 1862. He went to Italy in 1867, establishing himself in Rome, and spending his summers in Venice, Perugia and the Venetian Tj-rol, and one winter in Cairo, Egypt. Returning home in 1878, he was elected Acade- mician of the National Academy of Design in 1880. His pictures include : Cliiklren on the Sea-Shore, Normandy (1861 ); Mosque of Kait-Bey, Cairo and Carpet Bazaar, Cairo (Paris E.xposition of 1878); Old Slave-Market, Cairo (1880); Grand Canal, 'Venice (Senator Allison of Iowa); Senate Cham- ber, Doge's Palace, Venice (George Kemp, Esq., N.Y.); Interior, St. Mark's, Fe?i/oe (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.); Pidpit in St. Mark's, Venice (Metropolitan Museum, New York). Of important portraits, are those of Ex-Governors Lowe, Cliambers and Kirkwood, Judges Mason, Wright and Dillon, and Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, in the State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Yewell became a patron of the Metropolitan Museum, N.Y., a member of tlie Century associa- tion, and secretary of the Artists' Fund Society of the City of New York, serving in the latter capacity for many years.

YOUMANS, Edward Livingston, scientist, was born in Coeymans, N.Y., June 3, 1821 ; son of Vincent and Catherine (Scofield) Youmans. He removed with his parents to Saratoga county; attended the common schools, but in 1834 his eyesight failed, and he went to New York city for treatment. He was totally blind for several years, and finally partially recovered liisej-esight. He studied chemistry anti physics with his sister Eliza during his blindness, and contrived a writ- ing machine for his own use. In 1851 he invented a chemical cliart, that expounded the laws of chemical science by means of colored diagrams. He studied medicine, and delivered lectures on science, 1852-69, in connection with the Lyceum system. He was married in 1861. to Mrs. "Wil- liam L. Lee. He was professor at Antioch col- lege, 1866-71, and in the latter year planned the "International Scientific Series." In 1872 he establislied the Poptdar Science Monthly, which he edited until 1886, when failing healtli caused his letirement. Tiie honorary degree of M.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Ver- mont in 1860. He was interested in tiie distribu- tion of standard scientific works in the United States, and is the author of ; Alcohol, and the