"Prominent Men of West Virginia"
George Wesley Atkinson, Alvaro Franklin Gibbens
Published by W. L. Callin, 1890 - West Virginia

JOHN WILEY YEATER. 

JOHN W. YEATER is on the rolls of the present Senate 
from the Second District. He is a physician, and his resi- 
dence, New Dale, Tyler county. He was horn December 28, 
1850, in Marshall county, Ya.; was a farmer’s boy, attending 
the ordinary schools of the locality, and afterwards for a while 
was teacher. Studied medicine at the Howard Medical College, 
sessions of 1876 and 1877, and practiced in Wetzel until 1879. 
He graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Bal- 
timore, then resumed practice until 1887, when he attended the 
Polytechnic, of New York City. He has not sought office, but 
the voters of his district sent him as their representative in
1889 to the Legislature, where he is upon the committees of
Finance, Claims and Grievances, and Public Printing. 

Submitted by Linda Fluharty.