BIOGRAPHIES
(Source:
Schenectady County, New
York : its history to the close of the nineteenth century
unknown: New York History Co., 1902 - Yates, Austin A.)
Transcribing by Sharon Wick
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Hon. Austin A. Yates was born in
Schenectady, N. Y., March 24, 1836. After a preparatory
education he entered Union College and was graduated from that
historic institution in 1854. He then took up the study of
law and was admitted to the Bar in 1857. Immediately after
his admission he began the practice of his profession, and was
for a time editor of the Schenectady Daily News.
During the Civil War he raised a company of which he
became Captain, and at the close of the war was breveted Major
for meritorious services. He was made assistant to the
Judge Advocate General in 1865, at the close of the war.
He commanded the company which hanged the murderer of Lincoln,
Company F, 14th Volunteer Reserves, In 1867 he was elected
District Attorney of Schenectady and was re-elected in 1870, but
resigned in 1873, on his election to the office of County Judge.
In 1879 he was appointed attorney to the Insurance Department by
the State Superintendent of Insurance. He was Member of
Assembly in 1887 and 1889.
Upon the breaking out of the Spanish-American War,
Major Yates went to the front for the second time, upon this
occasion as Major in the Second Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry and served until the regiment was mustered out.
He was retired in 1900, upon his own application. He has
been employed as attorney in different departments of the state. |
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