Jacob Yost (Virginia congressman)
Jacob Yost (April 1, 1853 – January 25, 1933) was an American politician who served as mayor of Staunton, as well as twice represented Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the United States House of Representatives, from 1887 to 1889 and 1897–1899. Early and family life Yost was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1853 to Major Samuel McPherson Yost (1829-1915) and his wife Henrietta Cushing Yost (1834-1856). His father became Indian Agent for New Mexico in 1857, and Quartermaster Major in the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) during the American Civil War. Branches of the Yost family were active in Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties. A cousin was C.S.A. General John R. Jones (son of Samuel's sister Harriet Yost). Samuel's cousins (with the same grandmother, Catharine Miller (b. Aug. 2, 1778)) included Major Hunter Liggett of the 31st U.S.V. in the Philippine Islands and C.S.A. Lt. Jacob N. Liggett of Harrisonburg, Virginia. He had an elder brother Merrell Cushing Yost (1851-1868), a younger brother Isaac Willis Yost (1855-1857), younger sister Bettie (b. 1860), and later after his father's remarriage, several half-siblings, including and half sister Alice Yost Pipes (1869-1969) Having lost his mother as an infant, young Jacob Yost was raised by his grandmother