Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Yost, Philip 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Philip Yost, a member of the firm of Yost Brothers, proprietors of a meat 
market at Lockport, was born November 14, 1862, his parents being John A. and 
Mary (Miller) Yost. The father came from Germany in 1851. He was a shoemaker 
by trade but shortly after his arrival in Lockport he became connected with 
the firm of Norton & Company, in the milling business and acted as 
superintendent of their flour and paper mills at Lockport until he retired 
from business life. He died at the age of seventy years. Philip Yost, whose 
name introduces this review, pursued his education in the public schools of 
Lockport, passing through successive grades until he had completed the high-
school course. He began business life as a farmer but afterward entered the 
employ of the Illinois & Michigan Canal Company, and when he left that service 
went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he began clerking in a grocery store. He 
spent five years as a salesman in that city, after which he returned to 
Lockport and opened a meat market in connection with his brother Henry, under 
the firm name of Yost Brothers, in 1885. This business has since been 
continued with constantly growing success and a large trade is now enjoyed, 
many of their patrons having remained with them throughout all these years. 
Mr. Yost was married to Miss Frances E. Waldvogle, of Lockport, a daughter of 
Andrew and Mary Waldvogle, the former a merchant. The marriage, which was 
celebrated May 1, 1889, has been blessed with two children, Casilda and 
Murilla. Mr. Yost is recognized as a citizen of worth and value and has twice 
been elected alderman. During his first term he was one of those who assisted 
materially in securing the passage of the ordinance for the laying of concrete 
walks throughout the city. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, the 
Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen, and is a charter member of the 
Heptasophs and also of the volunteer fire department, of which he was formerly 
chief. Henry J. Yost, brother and partner of Philip Yost, was born May 28, 
1859, and acquired a public-school education. He afterward entered the paper 
mill of Norton & Company, where he remained for some time, going thence to St. 
Louis, Missouri, where he learned the butchers trade. He afterward engaged in 
business on his own account in that city until 1885, when he disposed of his 
market there and returned to Lockport, where in connection with his brother 
Philip he opened a large meat market, which they have conducted up to the 
present time, this being one of the leading enterprises of this character in 
the town. He, too, has been somewhat active in connection with public affairs, 
has served as assistant supervisor for four years and was treasurer of 
Lockport for two terms. While filling that position the bank of Lockport 
failed and with many others he lost a goodly sum. Henry J. Yost was married to 
Belle Ruppert, of St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter of Henry and Catherine E. 
Ruppert, the former owner of a transfer and teaming business in St. Louis, 
where he died at the age of fifty years. Two children have been born of this 
union, Lillian P. and May Louise. Henry Yost os a member of the Modern Woodmen 
camp and also affiliates with the Maccabees and the Elks of Joliet. The 
brothers are well known business men of marked diligence and enterprise, whose 
close application and unfaltering energy constitute the foundation upon which 
they have builded the superstructure of their business success. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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