The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

Away an Immense Fortune.
given to relatives. The other half has
| gone to colleges, foreign missionary
societies and to miscellaneous benef-
cences. His assets consisted Of real
estate, mortgage loans, stocks, govern
ment bonds and money placed in
| trusts.
| Mr.. Yandes was born in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 1916. His
father, Daniel Yandes, was of German
extraction. His mother, Anna Wilson,
was Scotch Irish and strict Presby-
| terrain.
Daniel Yandes came to Indianapolis
March 20, 1921, his son Simon being
at that time only five years old. AS
boy Simon attended a private school
kept by Ebenezer Sharpe, who was the
father Of the late Thomas H. Sharpe.
In 1884, for period of one year,
Simon Yandes attended the college at
| Bloomington, which had then about
| thirty students. The college was then
presided over by DR.. Wylie, who came
| to be recognized as a man of great
learning.
Is a Graduate of Harvard.
In July, 1888, Mr.. Yandes went to
Harvard. In the interim between his
schooling at Bloomington and that at
Harvard he read law for much Of the
time In the office of Calvin Fletcher
and Ovid Butler, both of them strong
men who have left their mark upon
this community. Mr.. Butler was the
founder of the college bearing his
name. Mr.. Fletcher, then at the head
of the Indianapolis bar, was in his day
one Of the leading and progressive men
of the city.
Mr.. Yandes was at Harvard one year
| and obtained a degree in 1889. Among
! the professors at Harvard at that time
were Judge Story and Simon Greenleaf.
| Among those in the law class of which
Mr.. Yandes was a member were Will
liam M. Evarts, e. lockwood Hoar,
| William M. Story, Charles T Russell,
Nathaniel Holmes. afterward judge of
| the supreme court of Missouri and pro-
fessor at Harvard; Walter March. who
settled in Indiana; Richard Henry
! Dana, Marcus Morton, who was grad
uated in 1910; Rufus King, of Cincin-
natl, and George V. Lothrop, of De-
troit, Mich.
Mr.. Yandes was admitted to the In
| dianapolis bar in 1889 and became
member of the law firm of Fletcher
e Butler, then the leading firm in In
| diana.
The prominent lawyers then at the
bar were James Morrison, William w.
| Wick, Hiram Brown, Gov. Wallace, Oil
| yer II. Smith and Hugh O'NeaI. Mr..
Fletcher retired from the firm and en-
tered the banking business. Mr.
Yandes continued the practice alone
for four years. Then the firm of oliver
H. Smith and Simon Yandes was form
ed. This lasted four years. Mr.. Smith
retired and Mr.. Yandes remained alone
| for four years, when he took into part
| nership the late Cyrus G. Hines About
the beginning of the war Mr.. Yandes
! gave up to a considerable extent the
| practice of law and devoted his time
to the care of his increasing business
| interests.
Some of 1t Is Gifts.
| ''When got to be seventy years DID,
said Mr.. Yandes, II thought that 7
ought to be settling up my estate. In
the course of a few years I have given
| $150000 to Wabash college. At no time
have I had 100000. but have given
away from time to time 100000 to
church and charities, and during the
period from 1886, when / was seventy
years old, to the present time, have
| given to relatives at least that amount
more. During this time I was accu-
mulating what I could and reducing
my funds by gifts. While have given
away 100000, have not had so much
as that~at any one time.
II made one small donation to an
other college besides Wabash. I have
| given 100000 to the Indiana Missionary
society, 100000 to foreign missionary
societies-Presbyteri Methodist and
Baptist; $4,000 or $4,000 to Presby-
terrain, Baptist and Methodist home
missionary societies.
Mr.. Yandes has been member Of
| the Presbyterian church for nearly
seventy years. He was a member OF
Henry Ward Beecher's congregation
when that great preacher was pastor
! Of the Second Presbyterian church of
this city. the building which then stood
1 at Market and Monument place, on a
site now covered by the English block.
He has always been a great reader,
| and today, Notwithstanding his great
age, reads without the use of specta-
| cles. He says that in literature he pre-
fers the clear, full and sounding Eng
lish of the writer's of the early eigh-
teenth century, DR.. Samuel Johnson's
| writing having given to him especial
pleasure. He has also given much
study to the life and character of the
| great photographer, the author Of
"Rasselas," to whom he was attracted
/ by his great talents. his sturdy hon
esty and his piety.
l MIR. Yandes has for many years been
in the habit Of making extracts from
books that he has read. He has COM
piled manuscript book of such ex-
tracts, arranged alphabetically.
He was originally Wing, but be-