Cyrus Yale
Elisha Yale, founder of Kingsborough Academy in New York, and of abolitionist lawyer Barnabas Yale, who petionned Congress in 1838 for the abolition of slavery with Senator Silas Wright, and cofounded the Central New-York State Society in 1842, auxiliary to the American Anti-Slavery Society.
[3][2][4][5] His great-grandson was New York senator Mortimer Yale Ferris and his great-grandnephew was Harvard professor Edward Dana Durand, chief economist of the Department of Commerce.
[6] Yale worked in his early years on his father's farm, then started teaching at a school in his hometown.
Yale remained in New Hartford the rest of his life, except for three years, when he went to Ware, Massachusetts.
[9] In 1828 and 1832, he is recorded as one of the original members of the American Education Society from Hartford, along with Gen. Van Rensselaer, Rev.
[12][13] He also expressed his views on oppression and classes : "Here is no throne of royalty to be ascended or sustained by the sword, no rival lines of kings, no despot to swing his iron rod over trembling millions,... no titled aristocracy,...as an impassable gulf between different classes of the community.
[18][19][20] He was elected vice-president under president Stephen Van Rensselaer, a major general of the Van Rensselaer family, who was the richest man in America at the time, and one of the richest Americans in history.
Eliot, trustee of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and a friend of President Teddy Roosevelt.
Eliot Jr. and his partners obtained the projects of Cairnwood House and Lady Meredith House, and under Olmsted Sr., architect of Central Park and Mount Royal Park, they also obtained the commission of the Biltmore Estate of the Vanderbilts.
[2][1] A descendant, Stanley Yale Shepard Jr. of Atherton, California, graduated from Stanford University in 1955 and became a fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy and Lieutenant Commander, before serving in the Department of the Interior.
Heber Hamilton Beadle, a Presbyterian minister from Princeton who gave a collection of artefacts to Yale University from his missionary expeditions in Asia minor.
[25] Another son, merchant Richard Hamlin Yale, married to Mary E. Wakefield, daughter of Dr. Luman, and became the father-in-law of Judge John Hanson Kennard, a descendant of Founding Father John Hanson.
Yale died May 21, 1854, and was buried at Town Hall Cemetery, New Hartford, Connecticut.
