[1] He also joined the Century Association as an artist, introducing various members to the club, and actively promoted the print department of the New York Public Library.
Yale schooner was named in his honor by the shipbuilders, which was sent in 1849 to San Francisco for the California Gold Rush, never to return.
[13] Yale was also an in-law of Col. James M. Lewis, who owned two hotels next door, the Hammond-Chadwick and Jenkins houses.
[17][18] The bill's objective was to create professorships of dental surgery at West Point Military Academy and US Naval Academy, but the bill was later rejected by the Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, after communications with Colonel Thomas Ruger of West Point about its need.
His sisters’ marriages brought him to Quissett, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, having married Stephen W. Carey and Thomas Dunham Fish, who owned a shipping firm in New York.
His home, named the ”Barnacle”, was built in 1892, and it overlooked the vast scene of Buzzards Bay, often acting as an inspiration for his art, etching and photography.
Yale was co-editor of the Medical Gazette and medical journals, and wrote various works including "Nursery Problems," 1893; "The Century Book of Mothers;" "Phimosis," 1877; "The Mechanical Treatment of Chronic Diseases of the Hip-joints," 1878; "Remarks on Excision of the Hip," 1885; "The Diagnosis of Early Hip-joint Disease from Rheumatism, Neuralgia and So-called 'Growing-pains,'" 1893.
[16] His home "Barnacle" was eventually demolished and replaced by a contemporary house built by Dr. McGowan, and the workshop was preserved with its etching content, becoming a museum.
[19][5] On May 2, 1877, he cofounded with artists Robert Swain Gifford and James David Smillie the New York Etching Club, and became its first president.
Other members included artists Thomas Moran, painter of The Three Tetons, now in the Oval Office at the White House, Samuel Colman, partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany and designer of Mark Twain's home, and William Merritt Chase, founder of the New York School of Art.
[16] He introduced various members to the club, including Walter Cook, architect of Andrew Carnegie Mansion and New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal, physiologist Graham Lusk, son of William Thompson Lusk, President of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Ehrick Rossiter, an architect of Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt, and Lewis A. Conner, chief of the New York Hospital medical service.
Mrs. Yale's granduncle was William Greenleaf Eliot, cofounder of Washington University in St. Louis, member of the family of poet T.S.