WI BIO - Kenosha Co - YULE, George A. (son of George)

History of Kenosha & Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Lyman. Chicago: Clarke 
Publishing Co., 1916, vol II, pp 326-327

George A. YULE, secretary of the BAIN Wagon Company and thus active in the 
management of one of the largest and most important productive industries of 
Kenosha was, one might say, to the manner born, for the name of YULE has been 
associated with this business since 1842, and it was under the direction of 
his father hat he became acquainted with the trade. He was born in Kenosha 
[Kenosha County, Wisconsin] 13 June 1858, a son of George and Katherine 
(MITCHELL) YULE. [See also the Kenosha County, Wisconsin, biography of 
George YULE].

His [George A. YULE's] boyhood and youth were marked by no unusual events. 
He had the ordinary public school training and then entered the employ of the 
BAIN Wagon Company, of which his father was then superintendent. Gradually 
the YULE family have taken over the stock of the company as others previously 
active have passed from this life, and today George A. YULE, who through the 
steps of orderly progression has worked his way upward, is Secretary and 
Treasurer of the corporation, which is employing 450 skilled workmen in the 
manufacture of 18,000 wagons annually. Their output is largely sent to the 
west although their name and their product are known in trade circles 
throughout the country. Into other fields George A. YULE has also extended 
his efforts, being now president of the Badger Brass [p 327] Company, the 
first corporation to manufacture acetylene bicycle and automobile lamps. 
This today is another source of Kenosha's importance as a manufacturing 
center.

In 1883 George A. YULE was married to Miss Harriet HEAD, a daughter of Orson 
and Mary (TREADWELL) HEAD, and they have become parents of a son, William 
Head YULE. Mr. [George A.] YULE is preeminently a business man, possessing 
quick discernment and the faculty of separating the important features of any 
subject from its incidental or accidental circumstances. He is a man of well 
balanced capacities and powers, his character inspiring confidence in others, 
and, possessing sufficient courage to venture where favoring opportunity is 
presented, his judgment and even-paced energy have carried him forward to the 
goal of success.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly