Husband Harry Null Yont 1 2 3
Born: 18 Jan 1869 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Andrew Yont (1846-1869) 1 2 3
Mother: Marietta Null ( - ) 1 3 4 5
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Wife Emma Sander Reeves 3
AKA: Emma Sauden Reeves 4
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Father: Alexander Reeves ( - ) 4
Mother: Jane Goughenour ( - ) 4
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General Notes: Husband - Harry Null Yont
He was born at the Null homestead, McKean's Old Stand, East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Having lost his father at a very early age, he was raised in the home of his grandfather, Henry Harrison Null, and at the age of three years, with his grandparents and mother, moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where he prepared for college in the grades and high school. He then entered Princeton University. Later he entered the New York Law School, where he completed his course in 1895. He then returned to Greensburg and registered with the law firm of Robbins & Kunkle. During the session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, in 1897, he accompanied the senior partner, Hon. Edward E. Robbins, to Washington, as his private secretary. He was admitted to the Westmoreland County bar and began the practice of law in 1898. In July, 1902, he was appointed clerk in the prothonotary's office under his uncle, Millard Fillmore Null, and later was advanced to deputy prothonotary, an office he held until elected prothonotary in November, 1906, by a handsome majority over four opponents. He had the endorsement of both parties at the general election. On November 2, 1909, he was reelected without opposition at the primaries and general election, and later he was offered a third nomination, which he declined, being opposed to the principle of third terms.
After the expiration of his second term, he returned to the private practice of his profession in Greensburg. In the year 1902 he was admitted to the Superior and Supreme courts of the state and also in the Federal courts of his district. He was a member of the County Bar Association. A lifelong Republican, Mr. Yont in his campaigns seemed to run as well on either ticket. When elected prothonotary, he resigned his seat in common council, to which he had been elected in 1904, and for twenty years or more he was a member of the Republican county committee. In the autumn of 1917 he was elected mayor of Greensburg.
Mr. Yont was prominently associated with Masonry and was at one time master and secretary of Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, Free and Accepted Masons, also eminent high priest and secretary of Urania Chapter, No. 192, Royal Arch Masons. He was a member of Olivet Council, No. 13, and Kedron Commandery, No. 18. He was a member of Pennsylvania Consistory of Pittsburgh, and a thiry-second degree Mason; also a member of Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Greensburg Country Club, the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and the Americus Republican Club of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and served on the board of trustees from 1895 to 1901. He was brigade quartermaster-sergeant on the staff of General John A. Wiley, Pennsylvania National Guard, from 1895 to 1899.
He and his wife travelled extensively both in America and Europe.
General Notes: Wife - Emma Sander Reeves
from Altoona, Blair Co, PA