Findlay Twp. & Village -
JACOB YATES, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Findlay, was born in Franklin County, Penn., Apr. 24, 1825, son of Samuel and Margaret Swisher Yates, latter a native of Franklin County, Penn., and former of Virginia, just across the line; they come of a long line of worthy ancestry in their respective States.  In 1833 they came to this county and settled in Eagle Township, where they both died, she departing this life in 1876, and he in 1877; they were parents of twelve children.  Jacob Yates, the subject of this sketch, embarked in business for himself at the age of twenty- one years, and has, by his own exertions, accumulated a handsome, competence, owning at present 256 acres of valuable land and several head of valuable fine stock.  Of late years he has engaged in stock dealing and has done extensive business in shipments of cattle, etc., from Findlay.  Mr. Yates married, in 1848, Barbara Foreman, who departed this life Sept. 22, 1860, leaving two sons and four daughters: Melissa Ann, wife of Joseph Cheesebrough, of Findlay, Ohio; Cordelia, wife of Henry Shank, Esq.; Sarah, wife of William Black, Esq., of Findlay, Ohio; Ellen, wife of Jacob Oman, of Eagle Township, this county; Newton, a farmer of Jackson Township, this county; and Joseph (deceased).  Mr. Yates' second marriage was with Mary, daughter of George Hook, Esq., and by her he had four sons and two daughters: George A., B. B. Barney, Jay T., Carrie Blanch (deceased), Fannie May and Charles Jacob.  The subject of this sketch has always given liberally to all measures for the good of the public welfare of his locality, and takes a leading position in his own unaided exertions for his large accumulations.  He is an exemplary husband and father.  In politics he is a Republican.
Source: History of Hancock County, Ohio - Publ: Chicago - Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 - Page787