Thomas T. Yeatman Sr. (1787–1833) was the owner of an iron foundry and was a prominent cotton trader, banker, steamboat owner, and commission business partner in Nashville, Tennessee. He killed a man named Robert Anderson in a duel over business matters.
Yeatman's father was a boatbuilder in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Yeatman remarried after his first wife died. After his death from cholera in the 1833 epidemic, his second wife, Jane Patton Erwin, a daughter of Andrew Erwin, married John Bell, who would run for U.S. president. His son James E. Yeatman had a charitable career and business career in St. Louis, Missouri. Another son, Thomas Yeatman Jr., continued in the cotton business.
References
- "Thomas Yeatman - Unknown". tnportraits.org. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- W. Woodford Clayton (1880). History of Davidson County, Tennessee. University of Chicago. p. 203. ISBN 9780722248331.
- ^ "Old Time Duels". The Tennessean. 1882-07-20. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
- J.R. Killick (2000). "Yeatman, Thomas". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1002178. ISBN 9780198606697.
- Paul Edmond Beckwith (1891). The Beckwiths. J. Munsell's Sons. p. 33.
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