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Historian and Editor-in-Chief Austin A. Yates, Counsellor-at-Law
Late district attorney and county judge of Schenectady County; Attorney to the State Insurance Department; Member of Assembly; Major in the volunteer forces of the United States during the War of the Rebellion and Spanish-American War.
Men who their duties know;
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,
Prevent the long-aimed blow,
And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;
These constitute a state.
[This information is from Schenectady County, New York: Its History to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Austin A. Yates (New York: New York History Co., 1902). It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 974.744 Yat, and copies are also available for borrowing.]