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During those four years the Commission received and expended over 
$770,000 in money and distributed goods and supplies for the comfort of 
the soldiers, amounting in value to over $3,000,000. To this service Mr. 
Yeatman devoted literally his whole time and energy, regardless of his 
personal ease and comfort, visiting in person the camps and battlefields 
where help was needed; receiving, with his associates, many expressions 
of gratitude from the soldiers and the warmest encomiums from General 
Sherman and other commanders of the western armies, and being one of 
the very few civilians who have been admitted as companions of the 
Loyal Legion. 
After the war he engaged in the business of banking, serving as Presi- 
dent of the Merchants National Bank of St. Louis, until, with advancing 
age, he withdrew from its more active duties. 
In August, 1889, as one of the original trustees named in the will of 
Henry Shaw, he assisted in organizing this Board, and until his death, 
on July 7, 1901, having nearly completed his 83rd year, he bore his full 
part, as a member of the Board and as Chairman of its Auditing Com- 
mittee, in carrying out the purposes of its creation. 
No citizen of St. Louis was more widely or more deservedly beloved 
and venerated. His declining years were blessed by 
‘That which should accompany old age 
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,’ 
In the universal tribute to his noble and unselfish nature, the charm 
of his personal qualities and his eminent philanthropic and public services, 
his late associates deem it a privilege to join. 
IN MEMORIAM— GEORGE A. MADILL. 
The Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden desires to 
place on permanent record the expression of its sense of great loss in the 
death of Judge George A. Madill, which occurred on the 11th of Decem- 
ber, 1901. 
Charged with the Chairmanship of one of its most important com- 
mittees, he gave to the Board, in a spirit of unselfish devotion, the inval- 
uable services of his clear head, his sound heart, his discriminating wis- 
dom, and his trained legal skill. In submission to God’s will, and in the 
sadness of sorrowing hearts, the Board desires to place this tribute in 
grateful memory of one who, chosen by Mr. Shaw himself, was a tower 
of strength in the wise management of the institution over which the 
Trustees are set in custodianship. Mourning the departure of their fel- 
low-member, in earnest affection they unite in saying of him 
‘ His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, This was a Man!’ 
During the past year much has been done toward the 
permanent improvement of the addition to the Garden, by 
