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we shall be able to place upon the market a cheaper class 
of property, which we think can be disposed of more 
readily than the expensive land on Flora avenue. 
We have been called upon during the past year to mourn 
the loss by death of two most esteemed and honored mem- 
bers of our Board: Mr. James E. Yeatman, who passed 
away on July 7th, and Judge George A. Madill, who died 
on December 11th. Both were cesignated by Mr. Shaw 
in his will as permanent trustees, and gave much time 
and thought to the development of the interests confided 
to them, and the following minutes have been ordered 
spread upon the records of the Board: — 
IN MEMORIAM — JAMES ERWIN YEATMAN. 
The Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden record, 
with deep regret, the passing away from earthly scenes and duties of 
one of its original members, the beloved and venerated James Erwin 
Yeatman. 
A native of Tennessee, but a resident of St. Louis since 1842, he 
became very early one of its most prominent and honored citizens. His 
energy and intelligence were adorned and made attractive by a cultivated 
taste and a warmth of heart, which found expression not only in a refined 
courtesy of manner and a generous hospitality, but notably in the phi- 
lanthropy and public spirit which were perhaps his most distinguished 
characteristics. 
He was one of the founders of the St. Louis Mercantile Library, and 
its first President, in 1846, and during more than fifty years following 
many others of the most beneficent charities of this city were either orig- 
inated or greatly assisted by his wise and earnest efforts, — among them, 
the Bellefontaine Cemetery, of which he was one of the original incorpo- 
rators in 1849, and was elected its President during that year, his active 
connection with it continuing until his death, the Blind Girls’ Industrial 
Home, the Home of the Friendless, and Washington University, of which 
last he was for forty years a Director. 
But the Civil War afforded the most conspicuous and important field 
for his philanthropic labors. 
He was President of the Western Sanitary Commission, organized in 
August, 1861, by authority of Major-General John C. Fremont, and whose 
other members were, the Rev. Dr. William G. Eliot, Carlos 8. Greeley, 
George Partridge and Dr. John B. Johnson, the last mentioned of whom 
alone survives. The immense and self-denying labors of this Commission 
brought unspeakable relief and comfort to many thousands of Union 
soldiers in the field, especially to the sick and wounded, though not te 
them alone, and became part of the history of the war. 
