Thomas Yeatman

Thomas T. Yeatman Sr. (1787–1833) was the owner of an iron foundry and was a prominent cotton trader, banker, steamboat owner, and commission business partner in Nashville, Tennessee. He killed a man named Robert Anderson in a duel over business matters.

Yeatman's father was a boatbuilder in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Yeatman remarried after his first wife died. After his death from cholera in the 1833 epidemic, his second wife, Jane Patton Erwin, a daughter of Andrew Erwin, married John Bell, who would run for U.S. president. His son James E. Yeatman had a charitable career and business career in St. Louis, Missouri. Another son, Thomas Yeatman Jr., continued in the cotton business. Provided by Wikipedia