Thomas Yeatman

Thomas T. Yeatman Sr. (1787–1833) was the owner of an iron foundry and was a prominent cotton trader, banker, steamboat owner, and commission business partner in Nashville, Tennessee.

[2] He killed a man named Robert Anderson in a duel over business matters.

[3] Yeatman's father was a boatbuilder in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

After his death from cholera in the 1833 epidemic,[3] his second wife, Jane Patton Erwin, a daughter of Andrew Erwin, married John Bell, who would run for U.S.

Another son, Thomas Yeatman Jr., continued in the cotton business.