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Notes for James OTTER

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 labrary of that city.
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1896] - pages 45-46.
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