Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Eager, Harry 1875 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

HARRY EAGER.

Harry Eager is the proprietor of a tailoring and cleaning establishment in
Ottumwa, where he has been continuously engaged in business since the spring of
1906. His birth occurred in Onarga, Illinois, on the 14th of November, 1875, his
parents being C. R. and Helen (Skeels) Eager, the former a native of Vermont and
the latter of Ohio. They removed to Illinois in the '50s and in the year 1890
settled in Nebraska, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Four of
their six children survive.

Harry Eager enjoyed the advantages of a high-school education in his youth and
also attended Grand Prairie Seminary at Onarga, Illinois, and when seventeen
vears of age secured a position as clerk in a dry-goods store in Nebraska, being
thus employed for a period of seven years. In 1900 he came to Iowa and learned
the tailor's trade. In the spring of 1906 after spending a period of six years
in the employ of Meek Brothers he embarked in business as a tailor in Ottumwa
and five years later added a cleaning plant to the establishment. He has built
up an extensive and enviable patronage in both connections and is numbered among
the prosperous and enterprising business men of the city. He does all manner of
steam cleaning and dyeing for ladies as well as gentlemen.

In 1901 Mr. Eager was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Pickett, a native of
Iowa and a daughter of A. C. and Sarah E. Pickett, whose family numbered nine
children. Our subject and his wife have one son, Percy R., who was born on the
7th of December, 1903.

Mr. Eager is a republican in politics but has never sought nor desired office as
a reward for his party fealty. Fraternally he is identified with the following
organizations: Lodge No. 269, A. F. & A. M.; Lodge No. 347, B. P. O. E.; Lodge
No. 484 of the Loyal Order of Moose. He is also a member of the Brotherhood of
American Yeomen and the Royal Arcanum, belonging to Ocrum Council of the latter
organization. Mr. and Mrs. Eager enjoy an extensive acquaintance in Ottumwa and
are widely recognized as people of genuine personal worth.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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