Yatman Family.

Thomas Laurie was a missionary in Syria and perhaps Turkey in the early 1840s and served as a minister in West Roxbury, Mass., and elsewhere before moving to the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Providence, RI where he served from 1869 through 1885. His daughter, Martha Ellen, was active in the McAll Association and other church, missionary, and social organizations. She married James Octavius Yatman in the 1870s. He worked in the treasurer's office of the Boston and Providence Railroad for approximately thirty years and in the summer of 1892 worked at The Louisburg, a hotel in Bar Harbor, Maine. Martha and James Yatman lived in Dedham, Mass., and summered in Bass Rocks (Gloucester), Mass. for many years. They later moved to Providence. Their son, Ellis Laurie, was born in 1888. After 1900, the family frequently travelled to Europe.

Ellis Yatman, a lawyer and later judge, married Marion Fay in 1919. Marion Yatman, born in 1891 the daughter of Herbert Henry and Nettie Lowe Fay, earned a B.A. (1912), M.A. (1913) and Ph.D. (1918) from Radcliffe College. She was an elected member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1936-1942) and Republican national committeewoman for Rhode Island (1944-1960), and served as president of the Women's Republican Club of Rhode Island (1943-1946).