Biography

12/25/1849 - 07/23/1915


YERKES, Stephen Decatur, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, December 25, 1849 in Hatboro, Montgomery County, Pa.; attended, Loller Hall Academy, Hatboro; merchant; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); farmer; special officer, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; died, July 23, 1915 in Morris Plains, Morris County, New Jersey; interred, Hatboro Cemetery, Hatboro, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.


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