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Yandell was born on July 4, 1805 in Hartsville, Tennessee, the son of Dr. Wilson Yandell of North Carolina and Elizabeth (Pitts) Yandell.
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Yandell was born on July 4, 1805 in Hartsville, Tennessee, the son of Dr. Wilson Yandell of North Carolina and Elizabeth (Pitts) Yandell.
In his early years Yandell attended the Bradley Academy, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and began the study of medicine in his father's office. He attended medical courses at the Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1822-1823, and at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he was graduated in 1825.
Returning to Tennessee, Yandell settled for practice at Murfreesboro in 1826. He removed to Nashville in 1830 and in the following year to Lexington, Kentucky, to accept the professorship of chemistry and pharmacy in Transylvania University. Following six years in this position, he went to Louisville, where he participated in the establishment of the Louisville Medical Institute in 1837, a school that became the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1846. In the faculty of the new school he held the chair of chemistry and materia medica, and after 1849 that of physiology as well. He taught until 1859, when he accepted a position in a medical school in Memphis, Tennessee. With the onset of the Civil War he joined the Confederate service as a hospital surgeon, but in 1862 he was persuaded to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church by the Memphis Presbytery. He was ordained as pastor of a church at Dancyville, Tennessee, in 1864, but he resigned three years later, and returned to Louisville and to the practice of medicine. Though filling thereafter no office in the school which he helped to found, he was until his death active in its affairs and a continuing factor in its growth and success. He continued in a prosperous practice of internal medicine, with occasional exercise of his ministerial vocation, until his death from pneumonia at his home in Louisville.
Early in his career Yandell developed a decided bent toward scientific inquiry. He saw in the recently settled country of the Ohio River Valley a most fruitful field for exploration of natural phenomena, animal and vegetable life, rocks and waters, together with the prevailing diseases with their causes, prevention, and cure. While at Lexington he sought to infuse his love of science into his classes, but it was not until his removal to Louisville that he entered seriously into the work for which he is best known.
In the vicinity of Louisville were the coral reefs of the falls of the Ohio, the fossiliferous beds of Beargrass Creek, and numerous quarries in near-by Kentucky and Indiana. It was with this material that he achieved an international reputation as an explorer and student in the field of geology and paleontology. In 1847 he published with Dr. B. F. Shumard Contributions to the Geology of Kentucky. In the following years he wrote a number of journal articles in relation to fossils which he had uncovered and studied. Notable among these papers is "On the Distribution of the Crinoidea in the Western States, " published in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. V (1851). He also memorialized the name of his scientific associate, Dr. Shumard, in an article, "Description of a New Genius of Crinoidea, " published in the American Journal of Science and Arts, November 1855. His own name has been perpetuated by masters in paleontology in the naming of a number of fossils which he brought to light.
Through his active years he gathered together a veritable museum of specimens relating to natural history, which he bequeathed to his son and namesake, who aided him in their collection and preservation. Yandell is credited with the authorship of a hundred articles in various periodicals dealing with medical themes, geology, local history, biography, education, and religion. Beginning with an article, "What Fossils Teach, " in September 1873, he contributed to Home and School, a Louisville journal, a noteworthy series of scientific articles in a popular vein. He left uncompleted a biographic work upon the medical men of Kentucky. From 1832 to 1836 he was editor of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine and the Associated Sciences (Lexington), and from 1840 to 1855 co-editor of the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery.
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With the onset of the Civil War he joined the Confederate service as a hospital surgeon, but in 1862 he was persuaded to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church by the Memphis Presbytery.
In April of the year preceding his death he was elected to the presidency of the Kentucky State Medical Society.
Yandell is known to be President of the Kentucky State Medical Society in 1877.
Yandell was twice married: first, in October 1825, to Susan Juliet Wendel, and second, in August 1861, to Eliza Bland. By his first wife he had three sons and a daughter. Of the sons, David W. Yandell and Lunsford Pitts, Jr. , followed their father in the choice of a medical career.
