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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial History of Cincinnati & Representative
Citizens
by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B.
Vol. I
Publ. by
Biographical Publishing Company.
Geo. Richmond, Prks.; C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
1904
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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S. ANNIE YATES, M. D.
S. Annie Yates, M. D.,
founder of the Cincinnati Metaphysical College, occupies a
commanding position, which has not been gained through
social favor or the open seasame of gold, but has been won
through the deepest waters of affliction, through a strong
mentality, an invincible courage and a sweet, womanly
sympathy which has sought to embrace all suffering humanity
and bring to it benefits of mind and body.
In years, Dr. Yates is in the prime of a
useful life, but in experience she has put generations
behind her. From a childhood characterized by a
sensitiveness to all suffering, she developed into a
graciousness of young womanhood, perfected during an
eight-years residence with her parents in England. At
26 she was left a widow with no protecting arm to assist her
in shielding her two children, and then it was that she
began to show that determined individuality which has never
left her. Were it possible in the limits of the
present article, to trace the brave career of this
remarkable woman, as teacher, newspaper worker, temperance
lecturer and philanthropist, depths of self denial could be
shown which would shame many of the stronger sex. She
then entered upon the serious study of medicine, following
her early bent, but it became to her, serious indeed.
All her investigations went to show the inadequacy of drugs
and existing medical methods to reach the seats of many
diseases. In addition to being a metaphysician and
giving in all cases a metaphysical diagnosis, she is a legal
medical practitioner of the Eclectic school. She
regards the physical body as a congeries of elements and
administers only such elements in medicine as the system
requires to establish equilibrium. In hospitals and jails
she had been brought into close touch with many suffering
ones, who, in recognizing her great sympathy and mental
power over their conditions, were immediately helped.
This brought her comfort and it also opened before her the
possibility of a higher and different method of healing than
any she could learn from text-books or clinics. Three
years spent on a Dakota ranch, among lonely and primitive
surroundings, enabled Dr. Yates to concentrate
her impressions and evolve a system of healing which is in
active operation to-day. Upon her return to the East,
she took advantage of one of the colleges already
established in the line of her own discoveries, and was
properly graduated, dedicating her remaining years to the
practice of metaphysical healing.
When Dr. Yates came to Cincinnati, her
work was among those who were suffering, with no hope of
cure, apparently abandoned by the medical profession.
Her cures were nothing less than miraculous, and her fame
soon spread, so that in 1888 a college "organization was
formed and a State charter was procured for the Cincinnati
Metaphysical. College, to which students from all
parts of the world flocked. Its early growth was phenomenal,
and the institution was always self-supporting, but it was
discontinued several years ago from the fact that Dr.
Yates found the percentage too small, of students
possessing the peculiar gift required in that particular
practice. Dr. Yates may well be proud of
what she has accomplished.
Dr. Yates’ son, Dr. Fred Yates, is a
practicing physician at Newport, Kentucky. He was
graduated in medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, and at the
outbreak of the Spanish-American War enlisted in the United
States Army as a hospital steward. He served in the
hospital service in Puerto Rico and the Philippines,
reenlisting when his first term expired. Upon his
return to the United States, he brought with him from Puerto
Rico a handsome Spanish bride. The Doctor and his wife
stand high socially. Dr. S. Annie Yates makes
her home with her son in Newport. Her offices in
Cincinnati are at No. 208 West Eighth street, where patients
find a woman of gentle dignity, with many warm friends and
grateful admirers.
Source: Centennial History of
Cincinnati & Representative Citizens by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B. -
Vol. II - Pt. 2 - Publ., 1904 - Page 884 |
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