Yule, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin "B.F." Yule died April 12, 1934
Oakwood Cemetery
(Source:  Photo by Larry & Linda Kopet USGenWebWisconsin)



Source: Plat Book of Racine and Kenosha County Hennessey & Co., Delavant, Wis. 1908)

Benjamin F. Yule
Benjamin F. Yule is the owner of thirty-six acres of land in and near Somers.  He formerly conducted farming interests on a much more extensive scale and for a long period he was identified with industrial activity as a carpenter.  His birth occurred in Somers, Wisconsin November 17, 1851, his parents being Alexander and Jane (Watson) Yule, who were natives of Scotland.  Leaving the land of hills and heather, they arrived in the U.S. in 1840 and almost immediately afterward settled in Somers Township where Mr. Yule purchased two hundred and forty acres of land, then largely wild and undeveloped.  He bent his energies to its cultivation and for twenty years engaged in farming upon that place but desirous of putting aside the more active duties of agricultural life, he left the old homestead and made an investment in a small tract of thirteen acres, upon which he lived until his demise.
He was married twice and by his first union had seven children:  William, James, Alexander, George, John, Couts and Beatrice.  The children of his second marriage were nine in number:  Mary, Joseph, Thomas, Ann, Henry, Robert, Andrew, Benjamin and Edward.
Mr. Yule was a Democrat in his political views and a Presbyterian in religious faith, and his upright, honorable life won him the respect and goodwill of all with whom he came in contact.
His son, Benjamin F. Yule, attended the common schools to the age of seventeen years; afterward spent one term in the high school at Racine and then began learning the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for forty years.  He next engaged in farming, making investment in one hundred and ten acres of land, which he cultivated for a considerable period but afterward sold eighty acres of that tract.  He now owns thirty-six acres of land in and near Somers and gives his attention to the development of his farm.  his has been an active and useful life, crowned with a substantial measure of success, and his record proves what may be accomplished when energy and laudable ambition lead the way.
In 1878 Mr. Yule was married to Miss Jessie M. Strang, a daughter of Robert Strang, and they have become the parents of six children:  Mabel, who is the wife of Edward Longmore and has one child; Blanch, who is the wife of James Thom and has four children; Clarence, a resident of Iowa; Edith, who married C.A. Jensen and has three children; Earl, living in the Town of Somers; and Everett, at home.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian Church and they are interested in all those forces which work for the moral development of the community.  Mr. Yule is a Mason, loyal to the teachings of the craft, and is also identified with the Modern Woodmen.  His political endorsement is given to the Republican Party and, while he does not seek nor desire public office, he has never been remiss in the duties of citizenship, but supports those measures which are matters of civic virtue and civic pride.
(Source:  History of Kenosha County, Vol. II, 1916, Lyman Clark Publishing Co.)


About Jessie Strang Yule

Jessie Strang Yule (wife of B.F. Yule)
Oakwood Cemetery
(Source:  Photo by Larry & Linda Kopet, USGenWebArchiveWisconsin)

Children of B.F. Yule and Margaret Jessie Robena Strang Yule
Mabel Watson Yule, Born April 27, 1882 at Somers, Wisconsin.  Married Edward Longmore.
Blanche Monteath Yule, Born June 27, 1884.  Married  James A. Thom.
Edith Jessie Yule, Born June 25, 1890 at Somers, Wisconsin.  Maried Chris A. Jensen of Somers.
Earl Strang Yule, Born November 30, 1894 at Somers, Wisconsin.  Married Lilian Turkelson.
Everette Stanley Yule, Born August 30, 1897 at Somers, Wisconsin.  Married  Katherine Marie Lichtner.
(Source: Photo Courtesy of Joan Marti, B.F. Yule's great-granddaughter)

Margaret Jessie Robena Strang/Mrs. Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Yule  (photo date about 1885)
She received the first names of three older sisters that had died of scarlet fever.
(Source:  Photo from the collection of Glenn Dawson Strang shown on Historic Millburn Community Assn., Inc)

B.F. Yule, Floyd, Mabel, and Joan
(Source: Photo Courtesy of Joan Marti, B.F. Yule's great-granddaughter)

House built by B.F. Yule.  House still stands on Highway E, "downtown" Somers, Wisconsin
(Source: Photo Courtesy of Joan Marti, B.F. Yule's great-granddaughter)

Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Yule
(Source:  Photo Courtesy of Joan Marti, B.F. Yule's great-granddaughter)

About Clarence L. Yule
"Clarence L. Yule, 58, a native of Somers, died Tuesday in Milwaukee where he was engaged in architecture.  Mr. Yule was born December 10, 1886, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Yule.  He attended Burr Oak rural school, and was a graduate of a military academy and Armour Institute of Chicago.
After serving in the first World War, he lived in Creston, Iowa, where on November 14, 1917 he married Edna Beckwith.  In 1939 he moved to Milwaukee and joined the United States Soil Conservation Bureau.
Surviving are his wife; two brothers, Earl S. Yule of Somers and Everett Yule of Kenosha; three sisters, Mrs. Edward M. Longmore and Mrs. C.A. Jensen of Somers, and Mrs. James Thom of North Bend, Neb.
Thursday a group of relatives from Somers will accompany the body to Creston where services will be held Saturday.
(Source:  Racine Journal, March 7, 1945)