Background
Yeomans was born on January 7, 1800 in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. Because of his mother's death in his childhood he was brought up by her parents. They were poor.
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Yeomans was born on January 7, 1800 in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. Because of his mother's death in his childhood he was brought up by her parents. They were poor.
Yeomans was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but he was determined to get an education, and before the end of his term bought from his master the remainder of his time. In Troy, New York, and Albany he studied, supporting himself by teaching. After a year and a half he entered the junior class of Williams College, where he graduated in 1824, second in rank to Mark Hopkins. The next two years he spent in Andover Theological Seminary.
During the year 1826-1827, while he was a tutor at Williams, Yeomans gathered a congregation in the neighboring town of North Adams which became its First Congregational Church, and raised money for a church building. On November 12, 1828, he was ordained and installed as pastor, at the dedication of the church.
After a ministry of four years he was called to the First Congregational Church of Pittsfield, Massachussets, whence in 1834 he went to the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey. A pastorate of seven years there ended with his election to the presidency of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. That institution was then going through a period of radical change, abandoning some experimental features of its early years -
particularly dependence of the students on manual labor and assuming a more conventional character. Yeomans consequently encountered difficulties and dissension and could not achieve progress. After three years he resigned, leaving a name as an able teacher and strict disciplinarian.
In 1845 he became pastor of the Mahoning Presbyterian Church of Danville, Pennsylvania, which he served until shortly before his death. He was chosen moderator of the General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church in 1860. His year of office saw sharp division in the church, for some Southern leaders were already advocating secession. Responding to a strong desire of Northern Presbyterians, Yeomans in December 1860 issued a circular letter urging the observance of a national day of prayer on January 4, 1861.
In the General Assembly of that year he opposed the resolutions introduced by the Rev. Gardiner Spring, by adopting which the Assembly pledged support to the Federal government. In an eloquent speech he deprecated sectional cleavages in the church, and pleaded vainly that the Assembly should act conservatively, lest a schism occur and the Northern part become an anti-slavery body. From the beginning of the war, however, he strongly up-held the Federal cause; his last act before weakness overcame him was to go with difficulty to his door and wave a salute to a body of returning soldiers. He died at Danville at the age of sixty-three.
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President of Lafayette College (1841-1844)
Yeoman's toilsome early life and struggle for education rendered him industrious, energetic, and enduring. As a preacher he was studious and thoughtful, with much oratorical grace and fire.
Yeomans was married in 1828 at North Adams to Laetitia Snyder of Albany, New York, who with three sons and two daughters survived him. Two of his sons were Presbyterian ministers.
