436
JOHN WATSON YERKES
lican national committee. Mr. Yerkes was unanimously nominated for governor of Kentucky and received nearly forty thousand more votes than were ever cast for any other Republican nominee for governor of the state. He is affiliated with the Presbyterian church. His own personal preference led him to choose the law as his vocation. He is fond of riding and driving good horses, as exercise and relaxation. Home, first, furnished the strongest influence and stimulus of his life; and school came second in its influence upon him.
He was married October, 1879, to Elizabeth Owsley Anderson. They had two children living in 1905.
