WILLIAM W. YANDELL, M.D., is a native of Tennessee, where he was born
November 20, 1828, the only offspring of James and Malinda (Kelso) Yandell,
who were natives respectively of South Carolina and Virginia, and of English
and Scotch descent.  They were born in 1783 and 1801 respectively, were
married in Tennessee in 1826, and in 1837 immigrated to Indiana, settling in
Washington County, where Mr. Yandell died in 1838, his widow dying in 1875.
They were both members of the Presbyterian Church, and their extreme dislike
to slavery was the immediate cause of their removal North.  William W.
Yandell remained with his mother until attaining his majority, receiving in
youth a good common school education.  During the exciting times of 1849 he
became infected with the gold fever, and in company with a few kindred
spirits crossed the plains to California, visited the Sandwich and Feejee
Island, and transacted a general speculative and mining business until 1844,
when he returned home and began the study of medicine.  After attending
medical school at Louisville he located for the practice of his profession
at Bryantsville in 1858, where he remained until 1861, when he became a
private in Company K, Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, remaining in
service until June 19, 1865, when he was discharged.  He resumed the
practice of medicine at Knoxville, Ind., but in 1874 removed to Huron, where
he has established an extended practice.  To his marriage with Miss Virginia
C. Burton, who was born March 3, 1838, a daughter of Zachariah and Ruth
(Care) Burton, six children have been born, named:  Lina R., Carrie M.,
Zachariah W., Matilda F., Mary and Charles.  Dr. Yandell is Independent in
his political views, and Mrs. Yandell is a member of the Baptist Church.


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