Enrique Yateman


Henrique S. Yateman was an American lawyer and businessman, member of the Masonic community of Buenos Aires. He was involved in different political events in Argentina, where he became friends with General Urquiza, and he clung to the political ideals of Mitre.

Biography

Henry Yateman Collins was born in Virginia, the son of an aristocratic American family of English descent. He emigrated from the United States to Argentina during the presidency of Millard Fillmore, and was established permanently in Buenos Aires towards 1850.
In 1860 during a trip by stagecoach to the city of Rosario, Yeteman it was found with his personal friend, General Justo José de Urquiza in the camp of Argentine Confederation that he prepared to fight the forces of State of Buenos Aires commanded by Bartolomé Mitre.
In 1864 Yateman presents a claim to the province of Entre Rios, in representation of several individuals who had acquired land in 1824. The court ruling was unprecedented in Argentina by adopt American doctrine that people can not sue the state.

Family

Enrique Yateman was married on December 19, 1852 in Buenos Aires to Edelmira Carranza, daughter of Marcelino Carranza Vélez, a Creole related to the family of Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, and Martiniana Viamonte Chavarría, belonging to the family of Juan José Viamonte, an Argentine military man and politician who was governor of the Province of Buenos Aires for several periods.
He and his wife had two children, Mercedes Yateman and Enrique Yateman, who served as Consul of Marseille, In 1897, he was married in the Parish San Gabriel de Arcángel of Adrogué to Sara Bustos Canaveris, daughter of Martín Bustos Morón and Sara Canaveris Gutiérrez.
Juana Sara Bustos belonged to an old family from Buenos Aires, maternal granddaughter of Juan Manuel Canaveris Denis and María del Carmen Gutiérrez y Moxica. She was baptized on July 30, 1872 in the Parish of St. Nicholas of Bari, being his godparents Don Baldomero Gayán Basavilbaso and Doña Dolores Alais Ortega, belonging to a distinguished family of the city.