The Harold Yates family
Harold Yates family of Alexandria (pediatric medicine)
Two-generation Alexandria pediatric medical family. Patriarch Dr. Harold Yates Dr. Harold Yates b. 1915 · d. 1995 Alexandria pediatrician for roughly four decades from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Front Royal-born; UVA undergrad and 1941 graduate of UVA Medical School; WWII Navy physician … (1915–1995) ran a long Alexandria pediatric practice from his 1941 UVA Med graduation through the 1980s; his son Harold Taylor Yates Jr. continues the medical line. No documented common ancestor with the The John Yates family The John Yates family Three-generation Alexandria business family. Patriarch (Navy veteran; deceased 1989) bought his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977. His sons … , the unrelated Alexandria Yates lineage that runs the city’s automotive and commercial-property business.
The Harold Yates family carried the pediatric medical thread for two documented generations. Harold Taylor Yates Sr. was born in Front Royal, Virginia in 1915, took both his undergraduate degree and his medical degree at the University of Virginia (UVA Med class of 1941), served as a Navy physician in the Southwest Pacific during the Second World War, and built a long pediatric practice in Alexandria that operated through the 1980s. He lived in Arlington and died in 1995. [1] Washington Post — 'Harold Yates Dies' (1995) Newspaper
His son Harold Taylor Yates Jr. is also a pediatrician; he held an Alexandria medical license for a period and now practices in St. Albans, Vermont. Per editorial policy on living persons, biographical detail for Harold Jr. here is limited to facts published in public professional records.
Disambiguation. Available public sources do not establish any common ancestor between this Yates line and the The John Yates family The John Yates family Three-generation Alexandria business family. Patriarch (Navy veteran; deceased 1989) bought his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977. His sons … , the unrelated Alexandria Yates family that runs the Yates Corner / Yates Automotive service-station business begun by John Yates in 1964. Distant Virginia genealogical connection through 18th- or 19th-century shared ancestors remains possible but would require Find-a-Grave / Alexandria Library Special Collections / Front Royal county-records research to confirm. The corpus treats the two families as separate lineages until that research lands. [2] Alexandria Library Special Collections Manuscript
Sources
- 1.
"Harold Yates Dies," Washington Post, May 22, 1995, obituary section.
- 2.
Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Barrett Branch, Alexandria, Virginia.
Manuscript
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