Madison County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Yerger, George 1870 - 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, p. 12; 1925
Author: Henry E. Chambers

GEORGE S. YERGER in 1897 became associated with the late Friend L. Maxwell in 
the management of the extensive Maxwell plantations in northern Louisiana. Mr. 
Verger is now the responsible head of the business management of the Maxwell 
estate.	He is the third successive George S. Yerger and has a son who would be 
George S. Yerger, IV. His grandfather, George S. Yerger, was born in Maryland, 
August 23, 1801, and in 1816 accompanied his parents to Lebanon, Tennessee, 
where the obtained a fair education, studied law and was admitted to the bar. 
Locating at Nashville, he was for many years reporter of the decisions of the 
Supreme Court of Tennessee and was elected attorney general of the state. In 
1839 he removed to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and took rank among the eight 
lawyers of that locality. In 1844 he changed his residence to Jackson, 
Mississippi, where he practiced his profession until his death on April 20, 
1860. His practice in later years was largely in questions of commercial law 
and equity, what would now be called corporation law practice. He was a whig in 
politics but never sought any public office. He was president of the first 
railroad in Mississippi the V. S. & P. Railroad, said to have been the third 
railroad constructed in the United States. He also built one of the early 
cotton mills in the United States, located on Deer Creek in Washington County, 
Mississippi. He was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and was active 
in the Episcopal Church, declining appointment as bishop of the Mississippi 
diocese.

	George S. Yerger, the second of the name, attained the rank of captain 
in the Confederate army, being only fourteen years of age when he joined the 
colors. Captain Verger died in 1878. He was also a thirty-second degree 
Scottish Rite Mason.

	George S. Yerger, of Louisiana, was born at Jackson, Mississippi, in 
1870, and was educated in public and private schools in his native city. He 
served with the rank of captain in the First Mississippi Regiment during the 
Spanish-American war. He married a daughter of F. L. Maxwell, and became 
actively associated with Mr. Maxwell, this association continuing until the 
latter’s death. Mr. and Mrs. Yerger have six sons; Maxwell, aged twenty-one; 
who graduated A. B. from Tulane University in 1923; George S. and Andrew L., 
both students in the Louisiana State University; Edward, in high school; and 
William and Rufus Taft.

	Mr. Yerger is a member of the police jury of Madison Parish and belongs 
to the parish school board. He is a Mason and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Yerger 
has some unusual responsibilities, being business advisor and guardian to about 
five hundred families who live on and occupy the Maxwell-Yerger plantation, in 
the vicinity of Mounds. Some of these lands have been subdivided and sold as 
small farms.

Additional Comments:
George S. Yerger, born Jackson, MS

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