Captain Charles S. Yeomans, general agent at New Haven for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, is known as one of the most prominent and successful insurance men of this section of the state and in all that he undertakes is actuated by a spirit of enterprise and determination. He was born February 31, 1866, in Columbia, Tolland county, Connecticut, and is a representative of one of the old families of this state. His ancestry is traced back to Captain Edward Yeomans, who came to America in his own ship and landed at New London, Connecticut. He and his two brothers were the owners of sailing vessels that hailed from Liverpool, England. On the 6th of December, 1652, Captain Edward Yeomans wedded Mary Button at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and his family numbered three sons and three daughters. Of these Samuel Yeomans was born September 1, 1655, at Haverhill and about 1665 his father, Captain Edward Yeomans, removed with the family to Stonington, Connecticut, where on the 24th of July, 1672, he was voted an inhabitant of the town. Samuel Yeomans was married October 19, 1684, to Mary Ellis and they had four sons and five daughters, including Edward Yeomans II, who was born March 28, 1690, and was married September 5, 1716, to Thankful Bidwell, of Middletown, Connecticut, the ceremony being performed by Captain Ward, justice of the peace. The line of descent comes on down through Giles Yeomans, who was born May 18, 1719, and on the 8th of September, 1755, married Lovina Cushman, of Norwich, Connecticut. Their son, Eliphalet Yeomans, was born in 1764 and married Amy Brown, a daughter of Azariah Brown, of Lebanon, who served in the Revolutionary war. William Yeomans, of the next generation, was born in 1800 and married Betsy McLean. They were the grandparents of Captain Charles S. Yeomans of this review. Betsy McLean was a daughter of Henry McLean, who served as a first lieutenant in the War of 1812 and died of fever at Greenbush, New York. The family has figured prominently in connection with the history of the country in various generations. Joseph Yeomans, who was a son of Samuel Yeomans, was born July 1, 1719, and served as colonel of a regiment of infantry in the provincial war of 1767 and afterward held the same rank in the Revolutionary war. He passed away at Preston, near Norwich, Connecticut, in 1795. Edward Yeomans, son of Giles Yeomans, was born July 18, 1759, and he, too, served as an officer in the war for independence. Oliver Yeomans, who was born November 10, 1740, and was a son of Elijah Yeomans, was the victim of a massacre on the island of Cuba while serving as a soldier in an armed expeditionary force from the colonies. All of the families of the name of Yeomans in America trace their ancestry back to the three brothers who came to this country in the seventeenth century and landed at New London. The three brothers continued in the shipping business, being actively connected with maritime interests, and it is said that one of these was the first man to bring slaves to America, landing them at Charleston, South Carolina.
     William H. Yeomans, the father of Captain Charles S. Yeomans, was born in Columbia, Connecticut, in 1833 and became a widely known and efficient railroad superintendent, being actively connected with railroad interests for many years. He was the first superintendent of the Connecticut Western Railway and at the time of his death was superintendent of the Housatonic Railway Company. He started upon his railroad career as a brakeman and was afterwards conductor, in which capacity he served for sixteen years. From that point he steadily worked his way upward until he was long active in that field in a position of executive control, calling for administrative direction. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Isabella Graham, was a daughter of John Graham, the latter a native of England, who came to Willimantic in 1832. Mrs. Yeomans was born in Willimantic, Connecticut, and by her marriage became the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter, but one son has passed away. The daughter, Evelyn L. Yeomans, is in the government service at Washington, D. C., where she resides with her mother.
     Captain Charles S. Yeomans acquired his education in the public schools and in a business college at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and when nineteen years of age started out to earn his own living as an employe of the Adams Express Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. After a year there passed, he received an appointment to the federal railway mail service, with which he was connected for five years. He afterward went upon the road as a traveling salesman for a manufacturing concern at Bristol, Connecticut, and was thus successfully engaged for a decade. On the expiration of that period he resigned and entered the life insurance business, in which he has since been actively engaged, covering a period of seventeen years. He has operated very successfully in insurance circles, hav-ing established a large clientage, and he is today recognized as one of the leading general agents in the state.
     On the 17th of June, 1896, at Bristol, Connecticut, Captain Yeomans was married to Miss Etta R. Rogers, of Norwich, this state, a daughter of Henry and Isabelle (Beckwith) Rogers, both of whom are deceased. They were representatives of old and prominent families of Norwich. Captain and Mrs. Yeomans have a son, Roger W., who was born at Bristol, May 14, 1897, and is now a sergeant in Company C, Three Hundred and First Field Signal Battalion, at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts.
     Mr. and Mrs. Yeomans are members of the Dwight Place Congregational church and Captain Yeomans holds membership with the Masons. In early manhood he served for two terms as burgess at Bristol and he was a representative of the old fourth senatorial district on the democratic state central committee. He has since, however, espoused the cause of the republican party and takes an active part in furthering its interests. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution and that the same spirit of valor and loyalty that characterized his ancestors constitutes a part of his makeup is indicated in the fact that for the past fifteen years he has been a member of the Connecticut National Guard. As captain of Battery E of the Tenth Field Artillery of Connecticut he was in active service from June 20, 1916, until February 1, 1917, at Fort Bliss. El Paso. Texas. On the latter date, after serving for eight months on the Mexican border, the troops were recalled by order of President Wilson. After the declaration of war with Germany, he was again called into federal service and is serving as assistant camp quartermaster at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama.
     Captain Yeomans has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished and his lines of life have been cast in harmony therewith. Patriotism and public spirit are numbered among his salient characteristics, while in every relation of life he has manifested those qualities which command confidence and regard.