John R. Yale

John R. Yale (1916)

John Reed Yale (May 8, 1855 in Patterson, Putnam County, New York – July 17, 1925 in Albany, New York) was an American businessman and politician from New York.

Life[]

He was the son of Belden Yale (born 1821) and Margaret (Glennen) Yale. He was a real estate expert and assessor; and engaged in a variety of businesses, among them the construction of roads and the Brewster water supply system. On May 8, 1880, he married Alice Penny (born 1858), and they had five daughters.

Yale was a member of the New York State Assembly (Putnam Co.) in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913; and was Chairman of the Committee on Electricity, Gas and Water Supply from 1908 to 1910, and in 1912.

He was Vice Chairman of the New York State Commission for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

He was again a member of the State Assembly in 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925; and was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads in 1922.

He died on July 17, 1925, in the Albany Hospital in Albany, New York, after a cancer operation; and was buried at the Milltown Cemetery in Brewster, New York.

Sources[]

• The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 190)
• Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 346f, 349, 351f, 354, 356f, 359 and 361)
• State of New York at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915 (Albany, 1916; pg. 23f)
• JOHN R. YALE, DEAN OF ASSEMBLY, DEAD in NYT on July 18, 1925 (subscription required)
• Yale genealogy

External links[]

• John R. Yale at Find a Grave