People of Schenectady County, New York: Y

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Biographical information about people who were born in, lived in, worked in or had some connection with Schenectady County.

Yates, Austin Andrew (1836 — ?)
- [Schenectady attorney and judge, New York State Assembly member]
- Hon. Austin Andrew Yates (Biographical Review: Greene, Schoharie and Schenectady Counties, New York)
- Author, Schenectady County, New York: Its History to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1902)
Yates, Christoffel [Christopher] (1737 — 1785)
- [land surveyor and colonel in the Revolutionary War]
- Adult Freeholders (History of the Schenectady Patent)
- Print Resources:
  - Inventory of the Christopher Yates Papers at Syracuse University
Yates, Joseph Christopher (1768 — 1837)
- [first mayor of Schenectady, judge, New York State governor]
- Joseph Christopher Yates (Our Hall of Fame)
- Painting (History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925)
- Print Resources:
  - Roper, Donald M. "Joseph C. Yates" in American National Biography, v. 24, pp. 113-114 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) [R 920 ANB at SCPL]
  - Sobel, Robert and John Raimo, eds. "Joseph C. Yates, 1823-1825" in Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, v. 3, p. 1074 (Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978) [R 923.2 B615g at SCPL]
Yates, Robert (1738 — 1801)
- [early freeholder of Schenectady]
- Adult Freeholders (History of the Schenectady Patent)
- Print Resource:
  - Gutzman, K. R. Constantine. "Robert Yates" in American National Biography, v. 24, pp. 117-118 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) [R 920 ANB at SCPL]
Youmans, Albert L. (1877 — 1924)
- [Schenectady police officer]
- Fallen Officers (Schenectady Police Dept.)