Born: No­vem­ber 21, 1837, Ba­ta­via, New York.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 5, 1900, Ba­ta­via, New York.

Buried: Ba­ta­via, New York.

Yates worked in a num­ber of jobs, in­clud­ing shoe sales­man, news­pa­per ed­it­or, and hard­ware store man­ag­er. He be­came a Meth­od­ist min­ist­er in 1886, and later pas­tor of the West Be­tha­ny Free Will Bap­tist Church. His works in­clude:

Sources

Hymns

  1. Faith Is the Victory
  2. Harbor Bell, The
  3. Model Church, The
  4. Old Book Stands, The