Leroy Milton Yale

Portrait of Dr. Leroy Milton Yale Jr., physician, surgeon and artist

Leroy Milton Yale Jr. (1841 – 1906) was a medical doctor and surgeon from New York, cofounder and first president of the New York Etching Club. He was a member of the Social Register and wrote several of books and articles on medicine and etching. He also joined the Century Association as an artist, introducing various members to the club, and actively promoted the print department of the New York Public Library.

Early life

Leroy Milton Yale Jr. was born February 12, 1841, in Holmes Hole, Martha's Vineyard, to Dr. Leroy Milton Yale Sr. and Maria Allen Luce, members of the Yale family. His father was the doctor of Martha's Vineyard, graduating from Harvard Medical School, and cofounded, with Captain Bradley, Martha's Vineyard Shipyard, named the South Wharf Company at the time.

His uncle Burrage Yale was a wealthy tin ware manufacturer, and father of Burrage Buchanan Yale, cofounder of Lamson, Goodnow & Yale, a major gun-machine manufacturer and producer of Springfields Model 1861 for Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. He was a cousin of Col. Frank L. Yale, abolitionist Barnabas Yale and Yale Lock inventor Linus Yale Sr., and more distantly, of Rev. Elisha Yale and Col. Braddam Yale, family of Lorenzo Da Ponte and Commodore Issac Chauncey. Her grandson Carey Yale Morse was a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, and a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club. He graduated from Yale and worked for American Water Works of New York.

The Carey/Yale/Dunham Fish families were proprietors of the Harbor House Hotel, Quissett Harbor, in Cape Cod. Notable guests have included the family of Charles Lindbergh and socialite Alice Roosevelt, daughter of U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt. Through his aunt Lucy Yale, Yale was a member of the family of railroad millionaire Chester W. Chapin, a Congressman whose son owned a 20,000 acres estate in New York state.

Career Plaza Hotel from the New York Etching Club, cofounded in 1877 by Dr. Leroy Milton Yale, member of the "Social Register"

The Charity Hospital at Roosvelt Island, previously Blackwell's Island, near the New York City Lunatic Asylum, Dr. Yale worked at both locations

Leroy Milton Yale, Jr. graduated from Columbia College in 1862 and from Bellevue Medical School in 1866, graduating with mention from his class.

The bill's objective was to create professorships of dental surgery at West Point Military Academy and US Naval Academy, but the bill was later rejected by the Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, after communications with Colonel Thomas Ruger of West Point about its need. His sisters’ marriages brought him to Quissett, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, having married Stephen W. Carey and Thomas Dunham Fish, who owned a shipping firm in New York.

Dr. Yale wrote and authored two books on pediatrics. His adhesion to the club was proposed by Secretary of the Erie Railroad, Augustus Rodney Macdonough, son of Commodore Macdonough, and by General George Sears Greene.

Death

Yale died at his summer home "Barnacle" with his family in Quissett, Massachusetts, on September 12, 1906.

Her mother was Caroline Dawes Eliot, daughter of Congressman Eliot, and were members of the Boston Brahmin Eliot family. Mrs. Yale's granduncle was William Greenleaf Eliot, cofounder of Washington University in St. Louis, member of the family of poet T.S. Eliot and Chief Judge William Cranch, nephew of U.S. President John Adams and cousin of John Quincy Adams.

They had three children together; Caroline Stetson Yale, born Jun 19, 1883, Leroy Milton Yale, born September 11, 1886, and Juliam Meriam Yale, born April 5, 1892.

Leroy Milton Yale Jr. was also the uncle of Mary Valentine Yale, who married to Capt. Eugene V. N. Bissell, of the family of shipping magnate Edgar F. Luckenbach. Their daughter, Mary Valentine Yale Bissell, married her third cousin, real estate millionaire Pelham St. George Bissell, grandson of oil industrialist George H. Bissell, founder of the American oil industry, and competitor of John D. Rockefeller, the Nobels and the Rothschilds of France.

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