Priest. Born: 1896? in Tampa, Fla. Parents: William and Philomena (Oakes) Yancey. Education: St. Stanislaus College, Macon, Ga.; Gonzaga, B.A., 1919; studies in Spain, 1923-1925; Woodstock College, M.D., 1925-1927; St. Stanislaus Noviate, Cleveland, Ohio.; St. Louis University, Ph.D., 1931. Ordained to Jesuit Priesthood, June 14, 1926. Taught at Spring Hill College, Mobile; Chairman of Science Dept. Member: National Science Foundation's Board, president, Mobile and Alabama Academies of Science.

Source: Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.

Author: Introduction to Biological Latin and Greek. Mount Vernon, Iowa: F. G. Brooks, 1944.

Origins from Mythology of Biological Names and Terms. Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1945.

To God Through Science. Mobile, Ala.: Spring Hill College Press, 1968.

YELVERTON, LOIS, -1946

Teacher. Lived in Montgomery, Ala. for 35 years. Taught for twelve years; genealogical research training, three years. Finished book for Herbert Bremerton Battle who died in 1929. Member: Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Alabama Anthropological Society.

Source: Alabama Dept. of Archives and History; The Battle Book.

Joint Author: The Battle Book: a Genealogy of the Battle Family in America. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1930.

YENNI, JULIA TRUITT, 1913-

Born: February 21, 1913, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents: ____ and Halli Truitt Yenni. Married: Charles R. Hikes. Children: Two. Education: Lincoln Memorial University, Tenn.; Columbia University. Granddaughter of Julia Truitt Bishop, early Birmingham newspaperwoman; spent part of her childhood in Louisiana. Quit college when stock market crashed; worked in New York.

Source: American Novelists of Today; American Authors and Books; Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.

Author: House of the Sparrow. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942.

Never Say Goodbye. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1937.

The Spellbound Village. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.

This is Me, Kathie: a Novel. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1938.

YERBY, WILLIAM EDWARD WADSWORTH, 1864-

Lawyer, legislator. Born: October 10, 1864, in Greensboro, Ala. Parents: Miles Hassell and Susan Callie (Gibson) Yerby. Married: Mabel Taylor. Children: Two. Education: Southern University, Greensboro; studied printing, law. Published Greensboro Watchman, 1886-; president, Alabama Press Association 1901-1904. Admitted to bar, 1893; city attorney, councilman and mayor, Greensboro; state legislator.

Source: Alabama Past Leaders.

Author: History of Greensboro, Alabama, From Its Earliest Settlement. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1908.

YEUELL, GLADSTONE HORACE, 1892-1966

Teacher. Born: July 1, 1892, in Atwood, Ill. Parents: Claris and Ida (Davis) Yeuell. Married: Eugenia Osborn, May 17, 1918. Children: Three. Education: Alabama Presbyterian College, A.B., 1913; Bethany College, W. Va., M.A., 1916; University of Chicago, M.A. 1923; University of Cincinnati, Ph.D., 1928. School principal, Dayton, Abbeville, and Tallassee, Ala., and New Cumberland, W. Va. Taught at Alabama Presbyterian College; Bethany College; Florence State Normal School; University of Cincinnati; University of Alabama, 1928-. Acting assistant State Superintendent of Education, Ala., 1924-1925.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.

Joint Author: Alabama, Past and Future. Chicago: Textbook Division, Science Research Association, 1941.

YOLTON, JOHN WILLIAM, 1921-

Teacher. Born: November 10, 1921, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents: Robert Eugene and Ella Maud (Holmes) Yolton. Married: Jean Mary Sebastian, September 5, 1945. Children: Two. Education: University of Cincinnati, B.A., 1945 M.A. 1946; University of California, Berkeley; Balliol College, Oxford University, Ph.D., 1952. Taught at Johns Hopkins; Princeton; Kenyon; University of Maryland; York University, Canada. Awarded Fulbright fellowship, Oxford; Leonard Nelson Foundation Prize. Member: American Philosophical Association, Canadian Philosophical Association, Mind Association, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.

Author: John Locke & Education. New York: Random House, 1971.

John Locke and the Way of Ideas. London: Oxford University Press, 1956.

Locke and French Materialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Locke, an Introduction. New York: B. Blackwell, 1985.

Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding: a Selective Commentary on the Essay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Metaphysical Analysis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.

Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

The Philosophy of John Locke. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Empire State College, 1973.

The Philosophy of Science of A. S. Eddington. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1960.

Thinking and Perceiving: a Studying Philosophy of Mind. Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court Pub. Co., 1962.

Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth Century Britain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Joint Author: John Locke, a Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.

Joint Editor: Some Thoughts Concerning Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Editor: As Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Dent, 1961.

John Locke: Problems and Perspective, Collection of New Essays. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Theory of Knowledge. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Commentary: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke. Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Editor and Contributor:

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1990.

YOUNG, MARTHA STRUDWICK, 1862-1941

Born: 1862 in Greene County (now Hale), Ala. Parents: Elisha and Anne Elizabeth Ashe (Tutwiler) Young. Education: Female Academy, Greensboro; Tutwiler's Green Springs School, Havana; Tuscaloosa Female Academy; Livingston Female Academy, 1880. After the War, the family moved to Greensboro and she returned there after graduation. Published stories and poems in periodicals; wrote sentimental and religious verse.

Source: Martha Young: Alabama's Foremost Folklorist by William Stanleye Hoole.

Author: Behind the Dark Pines. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1912.

Bessie Bell. New York: Scott Thaw Co., 1903.

Minute Dramas: the Kodak at the Quarter. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1921.

Planation Bird Legends. New York: R. H. Russell Co., 1902.

Planation Songs for My Lady's Banjo and Other Negro Lyrics and Monologues. New York: R. H. Russell Co., 1901.

Somebody's Little Girl. New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1910.

Two Little Southern Sisters and Their Garden Plays. New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldridge, 1919.

When We Were Wee. New York: Macmillan, 1913.

YOUNG, ROBERT (Pseudonym)

See: Payne, Stephen Robert.

YOUNGBLOOD, FRANCES E., 1889-1962

Journalist. Born: 1889 in Matthews, Ala. Parents: William and Fannie (Armstrong) Youngblood. Education: Howard College, B.A., 1934; University of Alabama. Editor, educational dept., Birmingham News. Member: Beta Phi Alpha, League of American Pen Women, Alabama Writer's Conclave, Howard College Alumnae, Alabama Society of Washington, and Birmingham Writers.

Source: American Women, the Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation.

Author: Youngblood-Armstrong and Allied Families. Pensacola, Fla.: Frances Youngblood and Floelle Youngblood Bonner, 1962.