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- Maj. Herbert William Yemans, M.D., Medical Corps, U. S. A., of San Francisco, Cal., a resident member since 1916, was born at Wyandotte, Mich., 9 April 1857, the s/o Charles Chester and Mary Herbert (Chamberlin) Yemans, and died at Fort Rosecrans, Cal., 29 January 1920. He traced his descent from Edward1 and Mary (Button) Yeomans of Haverhill, Mass., and Stonington, Conn., who were married at Haverhill 6 December 1652, through John2 and Millicent Yeomans of Stonington and Tolland, Conn., Elijah3 and Abigail (Cooke) Yeomans of Tolland, Elijah4 (a Revolutionary soldier) and Amy (Delano) Yemans of Tolland, Conn., and Norwich, Vt., Elijah6 and Thena (Carpenter) Yemans of Norwich, William6 and Nancy (Lockwood) Yemans of Massena Springs, N. Y., and Charles Chester7 and Mary Herbert (Chamberlin) Yemans, his parents, of Michigan. Amy Delano, wife of Elijah4 Yemans, was a descendant of Richard Warren of the Mayflower.
His father, Charles Chester7 Yemans, M.D., was born at Massena Springs, N. Y., 24 May 1834, went to Detroit, Mich., about 1850, and died there in 1901. He served in the Civil War, being appointed 26 July 1862 as second Lieutenant, Company D, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, and resigning from the service 1 September 1863. He married, in 1856, Mary Herbert Chamberlin, who was born at Flat Rock, Mich., 14 September 1835 and died in 1889, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Herbert) Chamberlin, granddaughter of Enoch Chamberlin, and great-granddaughter of Lieut. Col. William Chamberlin of New Jersey, who served in the Revolution.
Major Yemans was educated in the public schools and by private tutors, attended a business college, studied medicine at the Detroit Medical College, 1875-1878, receiving the degree of M.D. from that institution in 1878, continued his medical studies in 1878-79 at the University of Strassburg in Alsace (then belonging to the German Mi Mi lire but now happily restored to France), and practised medicine at Detroit and Oxford, Mich., 1880-1882.
He was assistant and passed assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital Service (now the Public Health Service), 1882-1887, city physician and police surgeon at San Francisco, 1891-1893, police surgeon at Manila, P. I., 1901-1903, surgeon, United States Army (with the rank of first lieutenant, United States Medical Reserve Corps), 1903-1917, and major, Medical Corps, United States Army, from 1917 until his death.
He was the author of articles on medical topics, and was a member of many societies, among which may be mentioned the National Society of Americans of Royal Descent, the California Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Sons of the American Revolution, the California Genealogical Society, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association of Military Surgeons, the Army and Navy Club, the National Geographic Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Esperanto Association of North America (of which he was president), and various San Francisco clubs.
He presided at the International Esperanto Congress at Washington, D. C., in 1910, and opened the International Esperanto Congress at Antwerp, Belgium, in 1911.
He married at San Francisco, 22 December 1885, Bina Frances Staples, born 1 January 1860, died 15 December 1913, daughter of David Jackson and Mary Pratt (Winslow) Staples of San Francisco. There were no children of this union.
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