Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-23
Death Of Prot. Yemen


, man, Of Missoula, Mont, to Mr.. L. n.
Tunin, announcing the sudden death
OF Prof. l. =. Yemen, OF this city, who
was on visit to his daughter, Mrs.
| Hartman
lie departed this life sometime sun
day night or the succeeding morning.
He retired apparently in his usual
good health, and it was not til ii A.
NJ. the next day that his daughter en-
! tered his room and found him dead.
He had apparently died several hours
before the discovery.
Mr.. Yemen came To Olympia in the
Cos, and until few months ago. when
he went on visit to his daughter, had
been, with the exception OF years
service at Nashon College, a continu.
ous resident of this city, and nearly all
the time engaged in local educational
work. He was united in marriage to
Miss Emma Clark about 80 years ago,
and his only child, Eta, grew to wo-
manhood in this community. Soon
after her marriage TO Mr.. Hartman,
they moved away, as did his other rel
latives, the Clark family, and the
Professor was left quite alone except
for his many friends.
He was always foremost in efforts to
promote the welfare of the public, and
it was in no small degree owing to his
efforts that the early county fairs were
held, the first in the Territory of
Washington. In 1870, one 81 the
finest exhibits Of fruits and vegetables
was held in Columbia hall. 1t was n
"good year" for such products, and q
shipment of the best was made to Jay
Cooke & Co., the New York bankers,
and exposed in their windows on Wall
street, and it is said was a great help
to that firms efforts to float the North
ern Pacific bonds, at a very critical
stage in the early life OF that enter
prise. Mr.. Yemen, if not the originat-
or of the scheme, took an active part
in preparing the display for shipment,
and in conducting the correspondence
which placed it so prominently before
the public. Mr.. Yemen was man of
splendid education, classical scholar,
musician and an able writer. He
was employed a year or more on the
Daily Experiment, as local editor, one
OF the earlier newspaper ventures, in.
stituted solely for promoting public
enterprise, by the writer of these lines.
As its name portended, it was an ex-
pertinent" without a promise of life
beyond the time when it might cease
to be self-sustaining. 1t was five, six
and sometimes seven column paper,
just as patronage or popular demand
warranted. This service threw Mr..
Yemen into very close and confidential
relationship with the STANDARD, which
ever found him to be an earnest, zeal.
Gus, industrious and faithful aid to the
paper. He was man of marked indi-
viduality, of positive convictions, of
devoted friendship, and steadfast APP
plication to any object which he
sought to advance. He was somewhat
reticent in talking Of himself, and
hence nobody seems to know his exact
age. 1t is surmised, however, that he
must have been upwards of seventy
years old. The place OF his nativity is
likewise in doubt, although all admit
that he was eminently American in all
his tastes and habits.
An indication Of his popularity of
disposition is shown by the fact that
when he placed tombstone over the
grave of his wife, he had a duplicate
erected upon the vacant plot by her
side, with his own name chiseled in tie
marble, and blank left to fill in the
date of his death. 1t is probable,
therefore, that his body will find a
resting-place in the spot chosen
score of years ago for that object.