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Surnames: Yocom, Graham, Walmsley
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Other surnames mentioned in the biography of EMERY J. YOCOM, D. V. M, are, Yocom, Graham,
Walmsley,
EMERY J. YOCOM, D. V. M., is one of the able and prominent representatives of his
profession in Pulaski County, and the omnipresent motorcar has not robbed him of ample
opportunity for effective service in his chosen vocation. He maintains his residence and
professional headquarters at Winamac, the fine little city that is the judicial center of
Pulaski County. Doctor Yocom was born in Fountain County, Indiana, April 24, 1887, and is
a son of John S. and Kate (Graham) Yocom, the former of whom was born in Clay County, this
state, and the latter in Fountain County, where their marriage was solemnized and where
John S. Yocom became a representative farmer, he having been a son of David Yocom, who was
born in or near Booneville, Kentucky, the family name having been worthily linked with the
annals of American history since the early Colonial period. Representatives of the Yocom
family settled along the Hudson River in New York in the earlier part of the seventeenth
century, lat!
er members of the family established residence in Pennsylvania, and the Kentucky branch
of the family made settlement in the vicinity of a log fort constructed by Daniel Boone,
the historic frontiersman. All members of this family were killed by Indians except one
boy of fourteen years, and that boy was reared to manhood in Kentucky and figures as the
great-grandfather of Doctor Yocom of this review, who is one of a family of three
children. Doctor Yocom was reared on the parental home farm in Fountain County, and he
supplemented the discipline of the public schools of his native county by attending school
in Indianapolis. As a youth he was engaged two years in independent farm operations in
Fountain County, and he then went to Indianapolis and entered the Indiana Veterinary
College. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1910 and with
the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he having there been a student three years.
After his graduation Doct!
or Yocom was engaged in the practice of his profession in Fountain Cou
nty ten years, save for the interval of his World war service. He enlisted in the United
States Army in July, 1918, and was assigned to the remount service at Camp Greenleaf,
Georgia, whence he was later transferred to Camp McClellan, Alabama, where he was
stationed at the time the armistice brought the war to a close. He received his honorable
discharge April 1, 1919, and in the period of 1920-21 he was associated in practice with
H. H. Smith at Anderson, Indiana. In the latter year he sold his interest there and
established residence in Indianapolis, where he continued his professional activities
until 1927, since September of which year he has been established in successful practice
at Winamac, Pulaski County. The Doctor served as state meat inspector at Indianapolis in
1920-21, and in .1930 he was made Democratic candidate for coroner of Pulaski County. At
Winamac he is commander of Post No. 71, American Legion, for 1929-80, he is a member of
the Indiana Veterinary Medic!
al Association, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Reverting to the
ancestral history, it may be noted that David Yocom, paternal grandfather of the Doctor,
settled in Clay County, Indiana, in 1850, he having there taken up Government land and
having purchased additional tracts. He their developed productive coal mines on his land
and became one of the pioneer exponents of the coal industry in that section of the state.
In Fountain County occurred the marriage of Doctor Yocom to Miss Maude L. Walmsley, who
was born and reared in that county. The children of this union are four in number: Wilbur,
Welmer, Emery J., Jr., and Guinevere.